what do you think of the badger friendly milk situation
I think killing a native species because it is in the way, is undoubtedly stupid.
The Australians have learnt by their mistakes, one of their quite recent relatively was the reason the rainforest were not regenerating, was because they had persecuted the cassowary, as the rainforest had evolved with the cassowary and it's predecessors, a lot of the key plants and trees had developed so their seeds nuts only germinated if they had passed through the gut of a Cassowary,
Cassowary are very territorial and attack anything that comes into their quite large space, with their lethal spurs, they can decapitate a human with one kick, a bit of a surprise for the first Europeans,
so they have a very delicate balance to maintain, it took a long time to identify why the rain forests were not regenerating, no one realised what purpose the Cassowary were performing.
Badgers have been living in harmony on this land for longer than the humans have, there really were here first.
We don't know what the price we will pay when we eradicate them, it would be foolish to deliberately wipe them out, without knowing the full consequences.
there are two things that target and eat clegs/horseflies, an insect that causes a lot of damage to livestock, (and humans) wasps and dragonflies, we filled in all the ponds so the dragonfly's numbers have bottomed out, and we wipe out wasps nests where ever we can,
www.pondconservation.org.uk/millionponds
our toad and frog numbers are critical and they have a virus,
The majority of farmers and councils cut the hedges far too early, and take the berries off, so the birds are not here anymore to deal with pests.
We are all going to pay for this deliberate ignorance.
I come from farmers, I live with farmers, I live in the middle of the countryside,
This is yet another massive mistake, it is not even a solution, so there for pointless.