Recently it has came to my attention that a large dairy farmer locally is the reason there isnt a rabbit to be seen in a 10 mile radius. He illegally introduced the rhd virus because "the rabbits were aten his grash, the rivers that flow through or near hia land that once ran clear are now pea green, the river nore no less. And there is kilometers of hedgerow removed so more cattle can be accomadated.
Wildlife has suffered immensly, from the sights of yesteryear we can tell our children how in the sunset of a september evening you would see rabbits wander freely along the hedgerow, how the streams used to be rich with trout and salmon and how the hunter and the buzzard gets the blame for all this.
Hunting is not being practiced at an unsustainable level, the destruction of habitats through commercial dairy farming and coiltes sikta spruce that renders 1000s of hectres silent every year is the reason for this.
Sorry for the rant but I wanted to get this off my chest. How many cattle does a man want? If 300 isnt enough then 500 isnt enough then 700 isnt enough?
The hunter, the buzzard or the pine martin get the blame but the"Myxi" aka the rhd which didnt get here by wind by the way was introduced by the greedy dairy men. Well done lads. The bare silent polluted rivers and reclaimed paddocks are all yours.
