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Originally Posted by FUDGEY  I am not saying its right, just that its not as bad a thing as most people think and by the previous posts its obvious a lot more on here started the exact same way as me. |
I think I understand what you are trying to say in this thread FUDGEY, but whether you were aware of it or not, by taking those eggs you were in fact breaking the law, even 30 years ago.
At that time (i.e. the early 1970's?) the appropriate legislation would have been the The Protection of Birds Acts 1954-1967. Now of course, the taking of wild bird eggs is covered by the Wildlife & Countryside Act 1981 (
Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981).
That aside, I can understand why you might think that youngsters of today do not perhaps have or take the same opportunities to roam and to discover nature in the way we might have done in our youth (I'm probably a good bit older than you) the world now being a different place, but then again, what would I not have given to have had the internet back in the early 60's for access to more information about the wildlife we discovered, instead of having to wait for the mobile library to come around once a fortnight?
But even in my youth, and athough we shared the same environment & schooling, many of my mates were much more interested in football or rock music than they were in wildlife or the countryside, so nothing much has really changed, except that 'wildlife' has become much more popularised by the media, so that a much wider section of society is now actively engaged in some way or another.