| Re: The future
My mate is very intelligent, here are his thoughts about his antics in his early years explained better than mine
"If there's something to be taken from it then I have been left with a lifelong love and respect of wild animals. I honestly believe that the egg collecting gave any lad a grounding in the various bird species. Many of those same kids grew into the front line conservationists that now protect that wildlife and those birds.
The kids nowawdays would not be remotely interested in getting scratched beyond belief and falling out of trees in order to nab a bird's egg. While that may be good news for the birds in the short term I honestly do wonder where the concern for those birds will come in the future. I talk to mate's kids and they're hard pressed to identify a sparrow. If you have no knowledge of something you're hardly likely to worry about its demise.xe xe |