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mashton
You know how to trigger me, don't you?
Monoculture is bad, clearly, and leads to large swathes of land that is impoverished with wildlife. But shooting estates are equally bad as they encourage one species over all others, which has a devastating effect on biodiversity. Over 40 million pheasants are released into the UK countryside every year and any animal that is deemed a potential predator is shot, trapped or poisoned to ensure that there are enough pheasants left for the uber-rich* to shoot.
In Wales, Scotland and the Pennines huge swathes of uplands have been stripped clean of any biodiversity either by grazing sheep or deer, or to allow grouse to flourish, the latter two again providing entertainment for the uber-rich.
*my dad goes beating on a local estate, a day's pheasant shooting for a party of eight costs approx £25k, that is not something for anyone of average means.