Arising from the killing of yet another Golden Eagle on an upland grouse moor in Scotland (see here), I was reading a post by the brilliant Ruth Tingay, member of Wild Justice on her Raptor Persecution UK blog.
Apart from the appalling wildlife crime itself, Ruth refers to a book called “A Life in Nature”, a collection of writings by Sir Peter Scott, founder of the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust and the World Wide Fund for Nature.
He wrote this 60 years ago:
“For conserving wildlife and wilderness there are three categories of reason: ethical, aesthetic, and economic, with the last one (at belly level) lagging far behind the other two.”
And this:
“Conservationists today are involved in a gigantic holding operation – a modern Noah’s Ark to save what is left of the wildlife and wild places, until the tide of new thinking begins to flow all over the world.”
Those sentiments are more true today than ever before given the worldwide trashing of our natural environment and the escalating loss and extinction of biodiversity across our planet.
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Stay safe, stay well, stay strong, stay connected with nature
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