Dear Sir/Madam, 


Some more letters on various topics, please see the attached together with some more words from the Reverend.
 
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Bird and Mammal Declines, a brief history in time:
 
The history in all of this goes back a long way.  The first two casualties, followed the introduction of the Grey Squirrel in 1876, and these were the Red Squirrel and Hawfinch; over the decades, as the Greys became more and more establish, they're numbers then gradually petered out to levels we find today.  The next thing to grace us was the advent of organochloride pesticides, such as DDT and Dieldrin etc., at around the second half of World War II; these compounds were bad for everything but birds of prey in particular suffered.  Fortunately the RSPB. in those days campaigned vigorously and really did do a tremendous job in eventually achieving an almost complete worldwide ban. 
 
By the 1970s, another group of compounds, known as organophosphates became the new threat.  These rendered many species infertile but the problem this time around was the government had seen to it that the RSPB. had been bought and was well and truly out of the picture as a campaigning force and as a result of that they're are still in widespread use today.  This together with slug-pellets wiping out Song Thrushes and Hedgehogs, new farming regimes brought in, such as silage and early hay-cutting which destroyed the nests millions of ground-nesting birds, complete with Mink being released everywhere, the countryside by then was in utter turmoil.
 
In addition to all of that, by the 1990s as if things were not already bad enough, we now had the ever growing threat of wind-farms appearing all over the place.  And that to-date concludes this brief history lesson; will get back as and when the next catastrophe happens. 
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Rainforests cont'd. 


The programme, 'I Bought A Rainforest,' concluded last night when I wrote this and in order to simplify I'll have to write this in such a way that assumes everyone would've watched it, which of course most of you wouldn't.  Anyway, it ended with Charlie paying his squatter tenant to replant and tender his patch of forest he had bought rather than destroying it; which on a smaller scale, with good will and a given amount funding it would be perfectly viable to do each and every time.  The problem is on a pinhead scale this is all well and good but what about all of those vast swathes of destroyed forest he travelled through in order to get to where he was going next and beyond that?


The answer of course is to switch production from everything that is bad and destroying, such as the tiniest remnants of gold you get by destroying hectares of forest, Amazonian beef, Mahogany or by growing Coca or Yucca.  Instead, grow Rubber, Brazil Nut, Medical Herbs, Spices, Waxes, Resins or Kapok the list of appropriate rainforest money making species in that part of the world is endless; and there's a lot of wealth to be had too.  Something that would be really great would be to have a programme that spanned 5 or 10 years, broadcasted monthly and with a blogging system in place so the public can send in their suggestions, that way some real results with a lasting future could be achieved.  Now there's a challenge for the programme makers.


Unfortunately all we can hope for on our televisions at the moment is three short episodes on a subject like this or Spring Watch with the nation saying 'ah' or 'oh my God' depending on the outcome of each brood shown, or having us leave a meaningless piece of long grass by the side of our lawns for the kids to trample on.  While in the meantime we sit back and watch our beautiful wildlife perpetually sliding down into the abyss of that proverbial piss-ridden toilet created with such consideration by every government we've ever had.


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Environment Minister for Wales:


Last year you may remember we heavily criticised him for refusing to add the Greenland White-fronted Goose to the protection list.  This time around we have him pressurising his own department to allow a speedway track development to take place in the middle of some remote moors.  Please write to him and let him know what you think.


http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/alun-davies-faces-inquiry-calls-7231336 


Correspondence.Alun.Davies@... 


Please also see the link below.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/governments-kill-of-4-million-animals-seen-as-an-overstep/2014/06/06/1de0c550-ecc4-11e3-b98c-72cef4a00499_story.html 


 
Yours sincerely. 

 

 

Robert Piller.
Campaign Against the Trade in Endangered Species...

 
 Affiliated to:
 

 
World Council for Nature

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