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A month or so back the Greeks started boarding the inflatables, dropping their outboards overboard and then using the coastguard boat to push them back into Turkish waters. It lasted about a week before some German journalists got wind of it, ran a story and the Greeks had to stop doing it.
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And there you illustrate the hypocrisy of the situation. The wolves in Yellowstone were re-introduced to reduce numbers of a species that was becoming a nuisance. There aren't enough wild prey species in the Pyrenees to support the bears who's diet is 25% meat. And by far the easiest way to obtain meat is to kill the slower and more numerous sheep. The bears can't get at the wild goats and sheep. By your logic of the bears having been there for millennia have a right to be there then the wolves have the same right to be returned to the UK. Yet you don't support that. Rather hypocritical?
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No that isn't a valid reason. They became absent from that area for a reason or reasons and things have changed in their absence. You can't turn the clock back and if you want to introduce any species you can only do it if the conditions are suitable for the species to thrive. Putting large wild carnivores into an area where the population of prey species is either endangered or farmed cannot be justified. I agree that the Yellowstone project appears to be a success. But that was done in an area where there was a need to control large numbers of herbivores. It was either releasing wild wo
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But you cannot give a valid reason why the bears should be reintroduced. You just think that it is a good idea. Those local people who rioted to stop mare bears being introduced obviously don't think that it is a good idea. There is no natural food chain of prey animals other than two species that are already endangered and farm animals. The inconvenience to shepherds isn't just about losing a few sheep for which they will be compensated. They are only compensated if they can bring a carcase in to be examined by a vet or government official. The ones carried away or killed in remote place
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If you break the wolf / bear .v. sheep predation then what replaces the sheep? Ibex and mouflon haven't returned in enough numbers to be a viable source of food which is why they are still regarded as protective species. The sheep aren't wild. They belong to people so those who introduce the bears are effectively stealing some one else's livelihood. These animals disappeared from that region for a reason. There aren't enough wild animals that require culling to justify bringing in a predator. There might not be housing estates in the Pyrenees but there are people dependant on farming shee
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There needs to be some over view and coordination rather than the free for all of small interested parties shouting loudly and getting their own way. There are enough feck-wits unilaterally and illegally introducing or "re-homing' animals and fish for their own benefit without having small pressure groups being allowed to do whatever they want. About ten years ago some group decided to release otters on a small river in Nth Yorkshire. The land owner who agreed only had a small plot and the otters spread into areas where anglers were paying good money to re-stock it annually with trout. W
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We have just been down to the Pyrenees for our holiday. While up in't mountains we couldn't walk the dog on some of the hiking trails to protect the vulnerable species such as marmots, ibex and mouflons as well as the many small flocks of sheep that are allowed to roam free on the upland pastures. Fair enough. There are plenty of irresponsible dog owners who could cause problems for these rare animals. However, when you consider that the same Government who are protecting these animals are also actively protecting wolf numbers and re-introducing brown bears. As you would imagine the mountain s
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In the early days of mole trapping out here the Beagle certainly got me plenty of business. I could have opened a shop with all the redundant Beagles, sonic mole deterrents and those devices that set off a 9mm blank cartridge, plus the ancient scissor traps that people had inherited along the way. I've still got some of the traps customers donated including one tunnel trap engraved Duffus and a strange little Fen single wire mole trap.
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I have come across the Talpirid trap in customer's gardens. Given that the tunnels were around 40cm deep there is little wonder that they didn't catch anything.
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Call them bad? I'll raise you the Beagle ? https://www.nexles.com/media/catalog/product/cache/14/image/400x/32d278b64d2f7d67f6ad969c90f4d566/b/e/beagle-easy-set-capcana-cartite2.jpg Yours for a mere £25 each ?
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You might as well have got a Parkside one from Lidl. A lot of Bosch stuff gets sold under their brand ?
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I've got the same one as Bosun. We have over 100 metres of hedges of all sorts from forsythia and robin red to blackthorn and a lot of privet. It is two years old and still working brilliantly. I'll have it sharpened and serviced at the end of the season and it should be good for a few years yet.
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Let's call it strawberry blonde then ? Did you die twice?
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The photos were taken in shadow. That might explain it. There was definitely a ginger tone to the under fur but the general appearance was a creamy colour.
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I put some Putanges out on Friday at a client's property and returned this afternoon to find the culprit was an albino, the first that I have caught. Makes a change from the black ones with orange patches
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A shopping centre or secure home for immigrants.
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That Soucek looks tidy though gnasher. He's in my Fantasy Premier League team. If he strike an understanding with Antonio they should do well.
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I love the self entitlement bit coming from someone who thinks his team are still one of the greats despite not winning anything since his Grandad's time and are now rubbing shoulders with such EFL giants as Morecambe, Macclesfield and Forest Green Rovers. But then again; hypocrisy is Max's strong subject.
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My dad was a ripper and had the blue scars to show for it. Thankfully I didn't have to follow him dahn t'pit. When I first started work at 16 it was in a textile mill and during the three day week period when the strikes caused electricity cuts and petrol rationing. The mill was up on the tops above Cleckuddersfax and I had to get there by moped. 26 miles from home. They couldn't run the boilers for four days at a time and I was working a normal five day week. It was -7C inside the mill at one point. That was the year that Emley Moor TV mast collapsed under the weight of ice on its guide ropes
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42C in the sun earlier this week while out mole trapping. The air-con in my newer car / van isn't working properly so it has been hard going doing 200 miles and around 15 visits a day. That is being fixed today. The number of moles trapped in the last few weeks has dropped considerably due to the ground drying up as we haven't had any real rain for four months until yesterday. It started with a torrential downpour for over two hours then has rained non-stop all night and today. The moles are already active going my the new molehills on the dog walk so I'll expect a few more in the traps
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My own feeling is that the Saudis have seen Citeh get away with underhand financial dealings and effectively make the team nationally funded, so they now are going to set up a Saudi-Arabia United FC club.
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Forty years ago every kid wanted a cowboy outfit. Seems like these days nobody does ???
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So what about Russian and Chinese owners? What about Kuwait and The Emirates? None of them can hold their heads up high. The Italian guys where were involved with Leeds were linked to the Mafia. If you excluded all the nationalities who the UN have reservations over half the top flight teams wouldn't have their current owners.
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If it is any help my Mam always reckoned a boil wash would remove anything.
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There is a city in the Ukraine that is already built and no one lives there. I think its called Chernobyl or summat like that. Couldn't they move there?
