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"For what its worth - I don't believe the countryside needs to include bloodsport business in 2022.
This is coming from someone who grew up around and taking part in blood sports.”
as did I, it’s what gave me an interest in wildlife in the first place, though i disagree mainly because of money, it’s all about the money.
Nobody is going to maintain the millions of acres without the money.
the British countryside has been managed to within an inch of life for hundreds of years, there is a tiny percentage of natural habitat left (heathland) the rest has had our influence for better or worse. mostly worse.
(The Nature of the English Landscape by W.G. Hosking is a good grounding in the subject)
it’s actually watercourses and still water that needs the most attention, funny how the money from prime chalk stream trout or salmon fishing is driving that...