Which I said, you want to deny the obvious equivalence because you think Beaver is good, killing raptors is bad, but some keepers and landowners hold the opposite view. While financial incentive more obvious for shooting industry, some individual rewilders make money, but I think more motivated by
I'm not 'wanting to deny' anything. Just having a discussion to see if I can be persuaded. I'm rarely closed-minded on anything to be honest! Apart from that evolution is a clearly a fact
conviction, still some shooting people are, they believe that wildlife declines are the fault of conservationists protecting predators, nonsense giving scale of intensive land use, but it is an argument which gains support in some communities beyond the directly employed in shooting.
your failure to see the equivalency which @iancarter67.bsky.social clearly does is a blind spot. In effect individuals are taking it upon themselves to take actions based upon their own ideas and not expose that to communal decision making process, while Beavers have had more scrutiny so have
Just drawing a line in how you frame what I am saying, you academics are tricky buggers and need reminding of the fact you tend to try to shape a debate your own way and when confronted pull your necks in, often claiming 'it is not fair I did not say that' you did. It is.
Academic?! My main job is delivering farm advice north of Dorchester! I'm a lapsed visiting researcher at Exeter and UEA. But I'm not an academic and no I'm 'pulling my neck in'!
I think Beavers are a positive, and reestablishment of a UK managed population will be a positive and government delay is wrong given the process undergone, but let us not pretend everybody agrees, they don't, that should not stop process, we can not avoid doing things because a minority disagree,
but I guess it is more difficult when that minority own most of the land and have much influence. I also don't think that is right. Main issue for me is shadowy rewilders behind this may decide to do something much less acceptable, or plain wrong-headed. I like to think a distinction exists within
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