Ethnic Cleansing Strikes on Blacka

I understand that SRWT has been informing people that it is standard practice to remove non-native species from Sites of Special Scientific Interest.

This has been the reason given for removing certain trees. It's not stopped them from also removing scores of native trees. As we are unable to challenge or scrutinise this policy via a RAG meeting then we should expect it to be applied fairly across the board. The cows that are expected to graze here from the end of the month are non native and should be banned.

So are the sheep that pollute and damage native species of plants. It's long beyond the time that these alien scoffers of our local wild flowers were given the push. Instead of which they are treated as privileged creatures, highly subsidised, almost certainly non dom status and with fortunes stashed away in offshore bank accounts.

This absurd and shambolic situation surely can't go on for much longer. SRWT's credibility was never high but the current incident surpasses most we've yet seen. Time for them to go. A young horse chestnut tree was obliterated with a chain saw recently by an SRWT hooligan at a loose end .

Complaints were eventually met with the response that it is standard practice on SSSI land to  remove non native species. Now almost immediately opposite where this tree stood is a clump of daffodils growing alongside a bench. They remain, yet they are not the native wild daffodil but a cultivated one the result of a visitor planting some spare bulbs.

Blacka has numerous non-native trees and plants beside its non-native sheep and cattle that SRWT will not remove because of the agri-environment subsidy they bring in. Then there are those that have been planted in the past. For example some memorial trees including several non native oaks. Are they for the chop - or rather the chain saw? According to SRWTs latest management plan they will not tolerate invasive alien species such as Japanese Knotweed and Himalayan Balsam. They say they will be removed immediately and with haste if they ever dare appear onsite, so they say. But a colony of Himalayan Balsam remains on Blacka just where it was a few years back when I alerted SWT to its presence. Was it removed immediately? This question should only be answered by those with first hand experience of SRWT's appproach.