The Cullers are Coming Oho!

Our countryside is the most unnatural possible but for some it can't be unnatural enough. Having eradicated most forms of wildlife on the grounds that it's a threat to our potential for making more money or compromises our pet indulgencies we must remain focused on killing it off - if it ever re-appears. We make an exception for a few species of little birds that we can just about live with: they're alright if they only eat peanuts.

Every so often some group or another wants to cull an animal (it's often a mammal) that has succeeded  in surviving against the odds in part of our over managed lansdscape. There's a constant culling agenda never far beneath the surface of our countryside lovers and guardians. Badgers, then deer, then wild boar, then 'giant' foxes, all of them either a threat to humans or an opportunity for those with a gun licence to get some sport. Now it's the turn of the beavers in Scotland. Resourcefully they are making a go of re-establishing themselves. But not if the anglers get their way.