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  1. Ray Walton

    Culling of a Protected Species - Implications!

    Not directly fishing but could this have implications to other re-introduced protected species and other predatory species? From the end of this week, Britain's minister for wildlife is sending men to destroy the nests of wild buzzards by blasting them with shotguns. Believe it or not, from...
  2. Ray Walton

    Lets all get out and pull some Himalayan Balsam

    Sorry Martin ..don't believe all of that; in fact some of the quote is complete hype and rubbish! I certainly won't be doing it in the 'treasured' angling close season when birds, wildfowl, fish, insects and wildlife are nesting, breeding and spawning and bankside vegetation recovering. I am...
  3. Ray Walton

    Lets all get out and pull some Himalayan Balsam

    Natural England and the EA authorise a lot of killing of things but are blind to the future consequences i'm afraid. No bees or insects and therefore no pollenation of wild flowers, crops or anything.
  4. Ray Walton

    Lets all get out and pull some Himalayan Balsam

    Isn't Himilayan Balsam seen to be the saviour of British Bees and insects in the UK in the amount of nectar and pollen it produces which helps them overwinter... and with the decline of wild English pollen and nectar producing flowers and plants due to intensive british farming practices etc...
  5. Ray Walton

    Flooding and drought?

    Click on link: EA Environment chiefs consider redefining droughts after record rainfall - Telegraph
  6. Ray Walton

    Flooding and drought?

    The thing is Shaun...It might not be seen as a precious commodity or scarce in the UK 'if' the Water Companies stopped wasting it and got in the habit of storing the excess when it rains and floods. Both the Government and Water Companies want Fresh Water to become scarce for their own personal...
  7. Ray Walton

    Flooding and drought?

    Errr! Joe..the Telegraph printed the titled story above, not me! However, if you research all the facts onwards at what has happened since the privatisation of UK water companies in 1989, then i am sure you might have a different view. In my opinion, as with water meters being installed, the...
  8. Ray Walton

    Flooding and drought?

    “Keeping the country short of water is now Government and EU policy” Pete..I know who i wish to believe....and it aint you! ..Sorry!
  9. Ray Walton

    Flooding and drought?

    Yeah!..Won't be long now till they get rid of the excess river water to the sea and put us all back on 'Drought Orders' again...for their own monetory and profit making interests; at the expense of killing off the the UK streams and river systems together with the wildlife, fish wildfowl and...
  10. Ray Walton

    Flooding and drought?

    ‎..At last someone has sussed it!;) "Keeping the country short of water is now government and EU policy"! "Failure to fix leaks and increase reservoir capacity are behind our water problems"...
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