The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds has actually been criticised for looking for to employ a specialist who can shoot foxes and trap crows “away from public view”.
The preservation charity put out a tender for an “appropriately qualified” weapon owner to trap and eliminate predators assaulting curlew nesting websites in Upper Lough Erne, among the last staying fortress of the threatened ground-nesting bird in Northern Ireland.
Lord Botham, the previous England cricketer and an eager shooter, has actually implicated the RSPB of attempting to conceal the truths of predator control from the general public since it likes to present “a Disney version of the countryside”.
Upper Lough Erne is among the last fortress for a threatened bird types in Northern Ireland
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Botham said the charity required to be “more upfront about the tough choices on controlling predators”.
“It wishes to keep
