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Fairness In Wild Bird Licensing As Keeper Wins Landmark Legal Battle


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Aye very well done to NGO, hopefully some licences will follow this.

 

Compare this to the state in Scotland where 4 estates have just been banned from using the General Licences (not allowed to conrol crows or pigeons for 3 years), despite not been found guilty of any wildlife crime but are suspected off it. Complete ******** from SNH, and they are just as bad as NE in never granting a licence to control BoP nomatter wot evidence is presented

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That Gamekeeper was picking up where I was beating last week, where in conversation at lunchtime with other keepers present he was adamant that the same ruling would also apply in Scotland. Well done the Judge.

 

Blackpowder

 

Yup, the same will now apply in Scotland and in Wales - where authorities have also been incredibly reluctant to grant licences to fisheries for Cormorant control, among other things. I see a fair number of reviews taking place, to forestall the risk of legal action.

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guys would it be possible for someone to email me the link to this info please ? , id like to forward it to a friend but my techie skills are zero. thanks in anticipation :good:

Hi Mel

 

If its the link to the article its in my first post which is http://www.nationalg...rk-legal-battle

 

Don't know if that is what you want?

 

Cheers

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It is the right outcome and demonstrates fairness and equality by the High Court.

 

I am intrigued that David Bellamy was clearly so delighted in that picture.

Its been a while but I am positive of reading that David Bellamy has spoken publicly in favour of shooting, and its all round benefits to wildlife and the countryside some time in the past.

 

Blackpowder

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Its been a while but I am positive of reading that David Bellamy has spoken publicly in favour of shooting, and its all round benefits to wildlife and the countryside some time in the past.

 

Blackpowder

 

Thats the reason u no longer see him on TV and instead we have muppets like packman.

 

Think Bellamy is a patron of the NGO or heavily involved with them as well as some other pro shooting moorland groups.

 

On the other end of the scale i see the landowner has been fined 200+K of his SFP for that keeper who had a freezer full of dead BoP's and some in feed bags all over the spot.

U don't get fines like that for murder or the most serious of crimes, yes he had quite a few breaches etc but a 200k fine? And how much would the landowner actually know??

 

A keeper near me was found guility recently, yet had NO evidence, no body, no feathers/forensics. All they had was 2 eyewitnesses that say they seen him do it.

Thats like me and a mate just accusng someone of murder and him being found guily with no body or forensics just on our witness statements.

 

Still a long way to go until getting a truely fair hearing and being reported as such by various tabloids/press releases.

Think there is around 5x the population of buzzards to Cormarants, so in theory EN should have no problem issueing licences for 5x as many buzzards to be controlled, if the evidence is there and shoots meet the criteria

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Its been a while but I am positive of reading that David Bellamy has spoken publicly in favour of shooting, and its all round benefits to wildlife and the countryside some time in the past.

 

Blackpowder

Yes, he has, as has Robin Page, formerly of One Man and his Dog. Neither are any longer employed by the BBC. You'll have to decide for yourself if there's a link between one and the other.

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