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Does Britain Need Bison?
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<blockquote data-quote="slackjawedyokel" data-source="post: 8560963" data-attributes="member: 34254"><p>TLDR- I only read the early bit.</p><p></p><p>I have a suspicion that ‘wildlife groups’ are latching on to the idea of Bison because when their appeals are successful and they are able to gazump actual farmers/foresters and buy a block of land, they then have to ‘manage’ it. Managing land becomes prohibitively expensive quickly and (similarly to real agriculture) H&S is supremely important so volunteers will have to spend much of their time ‘going on courses’ so they are aware of the dangers of wielding an axe etc. If they can get in a few bison to crash through the brash, effectively doing the work of countless hours of paid or voluntary folks while also spinning a line to potential revenue sources about it being good for the biodiversity (this probably actually is true; habitats with a level of disturbance are nearly always more diverse ecologically than those left to their own devices) then they’re quids in.</p><p></p><p>They’ve just got to hope, given all the negative publicity they put out over farming/agriculture (evident even in this article) that folks don’t twig on that they’ve just put some coos in a wood <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🌲" title="Evergreen tree :evergreen_tree:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.5/png/unicode/64/1f332.png" data-shortname=":evergreen_tree:" /> <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🐄" title="Cow :cow2:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.5/png/unicode/64/1f404.png" data-shortname=":cow2:" /><img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🌲" title="Evergreen tree :evergreen_tree:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.5/png/unicode/64/1f332.png" data-shortname=":evergreen_tree:" /><img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🐄" title="Cow :cow2:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.5/png/unicode/64/1f404.png" data-shortname=":cow2:" /><img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🌲" title="Evergreen tree :evergreen_tree:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.5/png/unicode/64/1f332.png" data-shortname=":evergreen_tree:" /><img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🐄" title="Cow :cow2:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.5/png/unicode/64/1f404.png" data-shortname=":cow2:" /><img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🌲" title="Evergreen tree :evergreen_tree:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.5/png/unicode/64/1f332.png" data-shortname=":evergreen_tree:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="slackjawedyokel, post: 8560963, member: 34254"] TLDR- I only read the early bit. I have a suspicion that ‘wildlife groups’ are latching on to the idea of Bison because when their appeals are successful and they are able to gazump actual farmers/foresters and buy a block of land, they then have to ‘manage’ it. Managing land becomes prohibitively expensive quickly and (similarly to real agriculture) H&S is supremely important so volunteers will have to spend much of their time ‘going on courses’ so they are aware of the dangers of wielding an axe etc. If they can get in a few bison to crash through the brash, effectively doing the work of countless hours of paid or voluntary folks while also spinning a line to potential revenue sources about it being good for the biodiversity (this probably actually is true; habitats with a level of disturbance are nearly always more diverse ecologically than those left to their own devices) then they’re quids in. They’ve just got to hope, given all the negative publicity they put out over farming/agriculture (evident even in this article) that folks don’t twig on that they’ve just put some coos in a wood 🌲 🐄🌲🐄🌲🐄🌲 [/QUOTE]
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