Bring Back the Lead Aspirin! ; Politically Correct Attitudes Are Letting Predators Flourish - and the Victims Are Some of Our Best-Loved Species, Argues This Countryman

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It is already one of the more insidious aspects of modern Britain. But sadly political correctness has now crept into the world of conservation and is helping to kill the countryside. A puritanical breed of wildlife fundamentalists now dominate official conservation. In their creed, nature is no longer red in 'tooth and claw'. Instead, it lives in a Disneyfied paradise in which Bambi and Thumper play at the feet of the Lion King as he feasts on croissants and soya milk.

It is in this odd, parallel universe that predators have been granted the status of sainthood, and anybody challenging this absurd orthodoxy is depicted as a barbaric heretic who abhors wildlife. Meanwhile, some of our best loved and most vulnerable creatures are being decimated. These conservationists talk of nature finding its own 'natural balance'. What they forget, or fail to understand, is that the whole landscape of modern Britain is unnatural - wilderness has disappeared and the hand of man dominates. Consequently, to protect the weak and endangered, action has to be taken against the strong and numerous. In simple terms this means controlling some of our rampant predators.

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Bring Back the Lead Aspirin! ; Politically Correct Attitudes Are Letting Predators Flourish - and the Victims Are Some of Our Best-Loved Species, Argues This Countryman

Astonishingly not only are the main players failing to take action, they are making the situation worse. Typical is a scheme by Natural England, the Government's wildlife quango, and the RSPB to release 20 young sea eagles a year o...

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