For those that are hand-twisting about shooting crows, foxes and the re-introduction of the three general licenses....genuinely interested on your thoughts about the RSPB shooting crows and foxes, to, you know, umm... conserve other species:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/08/08/rspb-members-protest-controversial-crow-cull/
Has the RSPB (edit, that will be the Royal Society for the
Protection of Birds, the largest of any of our UK conservation groups), of whom Packham is the vice-president, become blood-thirsty pleasure hunters? If not, how are people who cull/kill for the exact same reasons on their land not lauded for conservation like the RSPB? Why have the incredibly well funded RSPB not found a viable alternative to shooting foxes and crows?
I guess what we could do is forget about stewardship, management and responsibility and blame people on internet forums for shooting the same birds that the RSPB do, to make their completely blinkered selves feel better that they have done sweet nothing apart from sit on their fat, lazy derriere.