British wildlife in steep decline as man-made activities take their toll - CONservation hooliganism taking its toll.

We have spent billions over the last few decades in feeding
CONservation hooligans to supposedly protect wildlife and habitat, yet
without exclusion they have presided over the greatest decline in
habitat and species the world has ever known. Instead of dealing with
genuine conservation issues, they choose to inflict Nazi style
principles in the slaughter of millions of animals in order to
artificially produce fashion species! The red squirrel and hedgehogs
are prime examples. Slaughtered in their millions in the past, in the
case of the hedgehog the RSPB/SNH killing was still going on up until
last year. This is despite the fact genuine conservationists were
warning the species was in grave decline.

That's CONservation hooliganism for you.

Beware who is pocketing your money if it's not reaching the species
and habitats that need protecting, which it clearly isn't.

Just check the accounts of the likes of RSPB, Woodland Trust etc and
see how much of our hard earned cash is spent on junk mail
advertising, big fancy houses as HQs etc!

Published: 01 January 2008 
Several of Britain's best-known animal species, ranging from the
hedgehog to the harbour seal, are now suffering declines that require
serious conservation action, according to a comprehensive report on
the status of British mammals. 

The report, from the Mammals Trust UK, which is funded by the People's
Trust for Endangered Species, identifies an assortment of factors
including climate change, the spread of infectious diseases,
agricultural and forestry practices, and not least, human activity, as
combining to place ever increasing pressure on already fragile
wildlife populations.

The result is that declines are accelerating in animals once
considered common, such as the hedgehog, as well as those which are
already scarce or localised, such as the Scottish wildcat.

An indication of the stress on British mammal populations came earlier
this year when nine new species were added to Britain's wildlife
conservation blueprint, the UK Biodiversity Action Plan. The hedgehog,
the mountain hare, the pine marten, the polecat, the Scottish wildcat,
the harvest mouse, the noctule and brown long-eared bats, and the
harbour seal (formerly the common seal), were added to the list of
British mammals already requiring conservation action, such as the red
squirrel and the water vole.

The lengthening list of environmental problems is increasingly hitting
mammals, say the report's authors, David Macdonald and Dawn Burnham
from the Wildlife Conservation Research Unit at the University of
Oxford. "The roll call of environmental topicality seems more strident
in 2007 than ever before, and wild mammals are touched by every topic
on the list," they say.

"How are agri-environment schemes to deliver food, biodiversity and
rural livelihoods, how is society to balance its respect for
individuals and humaneness with its desire to use, manage and develop,
how is this nation to provide its evermore urban citizens with contact
with nature that is increasingly recognised as important for their
well-being and health?

"The glimpse of a small furry creature may seem a trivial thing, but
it is increasingly the hallmark of quality of life issues."

They also point out that mammal populations are likely to have been
hit extremely hard by the floods last summer. "Innumerable small
bodies floated on the many square kilometers of water that immersed
the fields around our homes," they say, speculating that this may
represent the future, if the record-breaking rainfall was a sign of
approaching global warming.

"The sight of rabbits clustered on diminishing islands, wood mice
shivering in the upper branches of hedgerows, and a roe deer splashing
waist deep across a field all give a sense of meaning to concepts like
mitigation and adaptation in the face of climate change, not to
mention the planning implications for those three million new house
that the Prime Minister hopes to see swiftly built  hopefully all
with an eye to sustainability, green spaces and urban nature."

The report throws up some surprising statistics, such as the annual
number of road traffic accidents resulting from collisions with deer 
estimated at more than 74,000, with the south-east of England the
worst affected, encompassing hot spots in wooded areas such as Ashdown
Forest, the New Forest and Thetford Forest.

The report includes some good news, including the continuing recovery
of the otter, which crashed in numbers in the latter half of the 20th
century because of pollution, in particular from organochlorine
pesticides. But its main focus is on the decline of a growing number
of British wild animals, rare and familiar.

Animals at risk

* The decline of the hedgehog is among the most worrying. Between 2001
and 2005 surveys by Mammals Trust UK suggested a decline of 20 per
cent in numbers, but in some place this was as high as 50 per cent.
Research has suggested that increasing urbanisation and "tidier"
gardens are pushing out hedgehogs out from the places where most of us
live. Findings so far have not supported the growing belief that
hedgehog decline is linked to the steady rise in badger populations 
badgers are the hedgehog's only natural enemy apart from man  but
this area is "worthy of further exploration," says the report.

* The recent fall in numbers of the harbour seal appears to be equally
steep. Counts by the Sea Mammal Research Unit (SMRU) at the University
of St Andrews showed that the majority of large colonies around
Britain, with the exception of western Scotland, are declining. SMRU
detected a 40 per cent decline in Orkney and Shetland over the past
five years, suggesting that harbour seals experienced, as yet
unexplained, increased mortality or very low replenishment . Illegal
culling by fishermen who see the seals as competitors may be "a
serious issue", says the report. The UK supports 40 per cent of the
world's population of harbour and grey seals, with an estimate of
between 50,000 and 60,000 harbour seals and between 97,000 and 159,000
greys.

* A warning light is showing for the mountain hare, one of Britain's
two hare species  the hare of the uplands being different from its
lowland cousin, the brown hare, in that it changes the colour of its
coat to pure white in winter. It is found mainly in Scotland, but
there are isolated populations in the Peak District and the Isle of
Man. Although not enough work has been done to give an accurate
statistical picture, there is a perceived decline in the animal's
numbers, which is "likely to continue with increased impacts of
climate change on fragile upland habitats", says the report.

* Interbreeding is a threat to the Scottish wildcat, says the report,
noting that this and persecution may have reduced the remaining
population to just 400 individuals in northern parts of Scotland.
However, hope for the future comes from new research which has found a
genetic marker which candistinguish between pure Scottish wildcats and
cross-bred feral cats. This should be an invaluable tool with which to
assess the current wild-living cat population in Scotland and
determine accurately how many "pure" Scottish wildcats persist.









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date: Wed, 02 Jan 2008 11:25:13 +0000 author: Adenoid Hynkel .