We Have FAILED To Make Any Progress

 

Another year older and last night I was going through the badger files and found my report on the Gloucestershire "mystery" badger deaths as well as newspaper article from 1998 asking whether the badger cull was necessary and concerns over the number killed.

The article also spoke of the raised concerns over the plans to seize more green spaces to build on.

Here we are in 2026 after (officially) 300,000 have been killed in the cull and the cull is supposedly over.

It seems that all the effort and work put in since the badgers became a "protected species" in the 1970s was for nothing. The UK has no concern or interest in the species we are losing (and there are a LOT) so long as Green Sites are built on and the greasy corruption of the government and local authorities-who get caught out and just shrug and say "So what?" the UK will soon be concrete and the only genuine wildlife you will see with be taxidermies in museums.

Let's Not Mention The Fox

 Another discovery by my colleague LM. A painting rediscovered is part of an exhibition and it mentions the eagles and how they were treated (200 years on it is still happening)  and that foxes would not go near the trapped bird. Look at the image....

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Yes, wonderful eagle illustration. But here is the thing: NO mention of the unusual appearance of the fox. It is "the elephant in the painting" so to speak. No comment about it not looking like a modern fox or anything.  It is an image of an extinct British species and very clearly a mountain fox.

But, of course, "it's just a fox". To us it is even more pictorial evidence of the Mountain fox and matches taxidermy specimens but you would think that only the eagles are visible when the image is looked at.

My thanks to LM for forwarding.