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Not all farmers support the hunt mind Red5.
I used to shoot over 1200 acres of farmland and the farmer wouldn\'t let the hunt anywhere near. The amount of damage they caused to nesting pheasant and partridge far outweighed anything the local foxes could achieve in a season. He actually asked us not to target them as they did no harm, and in his eyes, weren\'t vermin at all (it was an arable farm by the way, probably different if he had kept chickens etc)
The gamekeeper on the neighbouring shoot was very old school (wiping out birds of prey, badgers etc) and he had an almost racial-like hatred of foxes. If they couldn\'t be shot or hunted, he would set locking snares and other nasty (illegal) traps. Although I strongly disagree with his barbaric methods, his job (and home) depended on results (ie how many birds were successfully released for the season).
5150, you\'re dead right and I\'m as guilty as anybody when it comes to playing God. I\'ve taken literally hundreds of pigeon and rabbits in the past in the name of \"pest control\", but it\'s not just direct hunting that upsets the ecosystem. Development - houses, roads, schools, shops, factories, all destroy habitat at a greater rate than anything else we can throw at it.
The only speices that seem to thrive nowadays are rats and cockroaches, maybe someones trying to tell us something??
I used to shoot over 1200 acres of farmland and the farmer wouldn\'t let the hunt anywhere near. The amount of damage they caused to nesting pheasant and partridge far outweighed anything the local foxes could achieve in a season. He actually asked us not to target them as they did no harm, and in his eyes, weren\'t vermin at all (it was an arable farm by the way, probably different if he had kept chickens etc)
The gamekeeper on the neighbouring shoot was very old school (wiping out birds of prey, badgers etc) and he had an almost racial-like hatred of foxes. If they couldn\'t be shot or hunted, he would set locking snares and other nasty (illegal) traps. Although I strongly disagree with his barbaric methods, his job (and home) depended on results (ie how many birds were successfully released for the season).
5150, you\'re dead right and I\'m as guilty as anybody when it comes to playing God. I\'ve taken literally hundreds of pigeon and rabbits in the past in the name of \"pest control\", but it\'s not just direct hunting that upsets the ecosystem. Development - houses, roads, schools, shops, factories, all destroy habitat at a greater rate than anything else we can throw at it.
The only speices that seem to thrive nowadays are rats and cockroaches, maybe someones trying to tell us something??
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