What a breath of fresh air from John Whiteford (Letters, August 28). Up here in beautiful Aberdeenshire the spectacular wildlife is being threatened by do-gooders with little or no understanding of the management of the countryside.
Already we have noticed dwindling numbers of small birds and indigenous species followed with a marked explosion of grey squirrels, herring gulls, magpies, crows, buzzards and foxes. Proper management of the landscape has been wrested from local farmers and land managers with their innate ability to control harmful predation. They have been marginalised by a vociferous cabal with a misguided softness for many species.
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Stupid protection laws have been enacted by pressure groups, trusting that Mother Nature herself will correct the imbalance. What tosh. Even academics in the community become incensed at the thought of reducing the number of predators with facile reasoning for their preservation. The loss of farm animals and their offspring, the destruction by foxes, feral cats, et al do not come into the equation.
Only this year the numbers of local birdlife has noticeably declined in my own garden. But there has been no such diminution of buzzards, cats, gulls, magpies, foxes, crows or grey squirrels. Ignorance is, indeed, bliss for those who know little of the real country life.
George Paterson,
2 Loch Way, Kemnay.
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