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Originally Posted by nightshade  Somebody mentioned that Bees (and a lot more wildlife) have no protection under law.
Don't you think that DEFRA (the Daubenton Bat Killers) is out of time to the current social, economic and climatic conditions that are putting so much pressure on our remaining wildlife.
Books like The End of Nature (Bill mcKibben) and recently Silent Fields,The Long Decline of a Nations Wildlife (Roger Lovegrove) show that the world is run by people who live in tiny worlds of their own totally ignorant of the slowly dying natural world that sustains them
Isn't it time some pressure was applied to these ignorant people to protect everything wildlife before it is too late(if it isn't all ready) |
while i agree that defra arent maybe the most effective govt agency known to man , they also arent totally responsible for the legislative circumstance , nor are they the ultimate arbiter of much of the legislation that does exist.
if presure needed to be brought it should be on the govt as a whole , as defra are powerless to change the socio economic conditions that put this pressure on the countryside - this power rests with the chancellor and the home office - though even they can do little about our rising population which is one of the real stressors
in actual fact legislation isnt the issue anyway as laws are in place that applied effectively will protect the countryside and our wildlife - the issue is more with lack of enforcement , and that comes down largely to a lack of money, which in turn is due to the fact that all joe public might like fluffy cute things he/she likes low taxes more.
finally we need to remember that mckibben and lovegrove (and Graham hurley - killing of the countryside) have an agenda too , and there are as many reasons for them to paint an unrealistically bleak picture as there are for the govt to promote an unduly rosy one.