Are they mad? Conrnwall Council consulting on introducing wild boar?

[JP1]

The blithering idiots in the public sector; have they no idea of what is happening right now?

ASF now declared in Germany

Pig sector at its lowest ebb in living memory

Autumn muck bans

and yet they release this:

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[Courier]

Let’s hope that this is just a sop to the sops and will put the idea to bed for many, many years - generations even.

 

[Bongodog]

This is what happens when 50% of the population leave university with crap degrees, jobs are created to utilise their low grade skills

 

[matthew]

Not only wild boar, but beavers, red squirrels and wild cats.
I just wish they'd mend the berluddy potholes.

 

[ollie989898]

People need to write to these muppets and ask under what jurisdiction they are even getting involved in this carp and how much they intend to pay landowners for the damage these things cause.

Councils are mostly totally skint, why on Earth are they getting involved in this? Explain it to me.

 

[betweenthelines]

Survey completed.


Will I go to prison when they find out I live in Devon?

 

[primmiemoo]

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Will I go to prison when they find out I live in Devon?

Despite the rumours, Kernow isn't an island. They forget this down Truro.

 

[steveR]

Survey completed.


Will I go to prison when they find out I live in Devon?

Or even further afield...

 

[Bongodog]

Survey completed.


Will I go to prison when they find out I live in Devon?

I completed it on behalf of my daughter who is living in Devon. I'm 300 miles away but don't want a wild boar straying over the county line whilst I'm visiting

 

[ollie989898]

Seriously, we are talking about the reintroduction of species which do not presently live in the locations in question.

People need to ask if they have assessed the impact these reintroductions will have on the environment?

Where will animals be obtained from and will they be from a disease free or otherwise certified and inspected source?

Seriously now, wild boar in particular are known to be potential reservoirs for all kinds of diseases, not just those that infect other wildlife or livestock like foot and mouth but potentially zoonotic diseases as well. That some do-gooder morons in a county council are spending tax payer money and time even contemplating this is infuriating to be honest.

 

[ski]

The blithering idiots in the public sector; have they no idea of what is happening right now?

ASF now declared in Germany

Pig sector at its lowest ebb in living memory

Autumn muck bans

and yet they release this:

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People in a cult are totally indoctrinated and can see nothing than the cult truth. That is what we are up against. It won't stop until food is short.

 

[som farmer]

we are going through a 'rewilding' trendy time, so of course, councils should look at these stupid, expensive, projects, they just forget to put them in the rubbish bin, after they have laughed, sorry, studied them.

People think they can halt climate change, globally, by going 'green' here. The truth is, we are already one of the greenist countries, but they would just call you a liar, if told.

There 'idea', is cover the country in trees, rewild in between them, and import all our food, stupidity, doesn't really cover it.

They have a vision of turning the clock back, about 3,000 yrs, and everything will be hunky dory. l wish l new what planet they live on, we could send them back. Alas, we cant. Just as rewilding, will take a few 100 yrs, to replicate, what they think they want.
Releasing extinct animals, back into our countryside, is not necessarily a bad idea, depending on what variety they choose, What is wrong, is their implacable belief, they are right, and nobody else is, and their complete failure, to have a plan, just in case it doesn't work, exactly, how they say it will, because, nothing will go wrong, they are right, full stop.

Well things can, and do, go wrong, then, it's 'intensive farming', or greedy farmers fault, not theirs, and it ends up, as a vicious nasty argument. Even worse, are the zealots, that just release things illegally, with no thought to the consequences.

Globally, we are edging towards a point, where food production, will not supply demand, and then, all these stupid ideas, will end up, where they should have been years ago, in the bin.

 

[Bald n Grumpy]

They'll wish they hadn't introduced them by the time they've ploughed up a few fancy tourist attractions and got into a few second home owners gardens and rooted around.
They won't stay out in the wilds all the time, and then there's the ones which will start hanging around the picnic sites while some dozey tourist feeds it crisps and sandwiches

 

[BrianV]

If the council members reintroduce any of these things then they personally should be made liable for any damage caused, they are not elected to the council to deliberately release things that cause damage to peoples property!

 

[Jrp221]

Idiots! They are making people redundant this month as they need to save £18m and they are asking stupid questions like this. Red squirrels, whilst it would be nice to have them will require the constant trapping and shooting of greys to allow them to get a foothold. Beavers, who wants another licenced animal being released. Water voles, have no problem with, would be good to have our rivers cleaned up. Wild boar!! are they insane (don't answer that). Wild cats and pine martins, would be surprised if we had enough of their habitats. Jeez, can't educate pork.

 

[Farfrae]

People in a cult are totally indoctrinated and can see nothing than the cult truth.

Which explains the Covid situation precisely for a disease that more than 99.9% of people survive if they catch it. But it doesn't matter how many facts you give them they still can see nothing but the cult of Covid.

 

[ollie989898]

Someone needs to write to these clowns and tell them to spend their time fixing roads, improving community links and sorting the social care system in Cornwall. What you have here are morons moving down from Surrey to live in their holiday home and taking up too much brain space wondering how they would like to see wild boar roaming the place. They should shut their traps and get on with being a responsible council, not wasting tax payers money on such hair brained schemes. This is a disgrace, pure and simple. If Somerset CC dared to even peep about such BS I'd be writing angry letters on a weekly basis to them. I guess they are too busy trying to organise the bin collections which seem to be beyond them to have any time to worry about putting beavers and wild boar about the place.

 

[primmiemoo]

What used to happen when those re-created iron age "breed" pigs went awol? They needed licences to be kept, fences, and all sorts of security measures, but would still escape.

Personally, I'd like to know that red squirrels are around. They were certainly in the Peninsular in the last third of the 20th century, so there are people alive now who grew up with reds around.

 

[som farmer]

iron age pigs, and wild boar, escaped, or released, into the countryside, and survived, as well as bred. They cover quite a large area, but not so often seen, their presence is obvious, by damage done, by rooting. A large number are culled, but they are still increasing in 'more forested, and quieter' areas. They are so well established now, l doubt it's possible to remove them.

 

[Bald n Grumpy]

They are well established in the forest of dean and even with the amount being culled legally and illegally they are too well established to get rid off .
They are now spreading out over a much bigger area even though some very wise people said they wouldn't cross the river. They were seen using the bridge just like everyone else. We've only had the odd ones that have been kicked out of the herd but they make a hell of a mess