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Wildlife claim wrong
DAVID Perry is wrong to claim no wildlife is harmed by burning moors for grouse shooting. (Letters, 19 May)
He further classifies wildlife diminutively as “nesting birds”. If he is a shooter he will also claim that songbirds and waders benefit from burning measures taken to conserve grouse.
The shooting industry prefers this cuddly smokescreen to the bloody truth of sport shooting. Burning destroys reptiles, small mammals and the essential lower level of invertebrates and insects that support wildlife.
It is probably responsible for the discolouration of water in northern reservoirs and the artificial drainage that accompanies burning contributes to the flooding of some lowland settlements.
There is also the enormous issue of releasing the carbon into our atmosphere that has been locked into the moors for millennia.
But hey, it encourages fresh heather shoots for grouse. We take our guns and get fun killing grouse don’t we?
Kit Davidson Animal Aid
The Old Chapel, Bradford Street, Tonbridge
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