Tarquin and Tamsin- job offer for you?

[deleted user 837354]

Wanted: UK bison rangers, no previous experience expected

Project using large beasts to help restore woodland offers unprecedented job opportunity

www.theguardian.com

No previous experience needed. I can see this going well. FFS. Just reintroduce a random species, assume it will be AOK and throw in two rangers who don't have a clue? Sounds great.... Some organisations have more money than sense. Haven't they heard that ruminants are bad for the planet then?

 

[Jackov Altraids]

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Where the hell do you start with this rubbish.....

They say;
“This is a truly unique role for the UK. It’s a chance to manage a free-roaming herd of Europe’s largest living land mammal"

and

"The herd of four European bison will be introduced into a 200-hectare (500-acre) fenced enclosure in the woods "

But at least there is some recognition that livestock actually benefit the environment.


Farmers all over the country do this kind of work for free and are having to defend their actions and then it gets ponced up to a 'project' and they get over £1.1 million and think they're saving the world.

 

[Muddyroads]

Isn’t that what posh people wash their hands in?

 

[Frank-the-Wool]

My fencing contractor has just quoted for the job.
The materials alone are over half a million pounds.
45 kms and most double fenced.
I will look forward to when they get out as just up the road is Howletts Zoo and then we will have proper rewilding!!

 

[grainboy]

The herd consists of 4 beasts, so they only have 2 each to look after, if they can find them .

 

[Paddington]

Need good fencing, they would just buff a low one.

 

[deleted user 837354]

Can you believe the circle jerk this is, over 1 million being spent on 4 beasts?? FFS. Wouldn't 4 cows be cheaper? Tell me, do Bison get TB and need TB testing?

 

[Happy]

Wanted: UK bison rangers, no previous experience expected

Project using large beasts to help restore woodland offers unprecedented job opportunity

www.theguardian.com

No previous experience needed. I can see this going well. FFS. Just reintroduce a random species, assume it will be AOK and throw in two rangers who don't have a clue? Sounds great.... Some organisations have more money than sense. Haven't they heard that ruminants are bad for the planet then?

Not only ruminants but tree felling ones at that
Should complement the beavers nicely in saving the planet

 

[beefandsleep]

My fencing contractor has just quoted for the job.
The materials alone are over half a million pounds.
45 kms and most double fenced.
I will look forward to when they get out as just up the road is Howletts Zoo and then we will have proper rewilding!!

Half a mill? Feck! I would think electric fencing would be the only thing that would keep them in anyway, how does that come to over £11/m for materials?
They’re only the size of average cattle.
If I was doing it I would clear the perimeter with a 360 then 4 strands of electric on steel posts.

 

[Farmer Fin]

Can you believe the circle jerk this is, over 1 million being spent on 4 beasts?? FFS. Wouldn't 4 cows be cheaper? Tell me, do Bison get TB and need TB testing?

Yes and yes. I saw some other people discussing it and someone said their is very weak evidence that Bison ever existed in the uk anyway. Someone else suggested it would be cheaper to employ 2 rangers and just give them a chainsaw each!

 

[Sid]

Here we are getting abuse and chastised for keeping bovines for producing food yet they want to release 4 bovines for what purpose exactly?

 

[davieh3350]

I’d be up for that job.

 

[Frank-the-Wool]

Half a mill? Feck! I would think electric fencing would be the only thing that would keep them in anyway, how does that come to over £11/m for materials?
They’re only the size of average cattle.
If I was doing it I would clear the perimeter with a 360 then 4 strands of electric on steel posts.

They might hurt themselves on the electric and it all has to be double fenced as well!!

Also they are hoping that people will come and look at them so they can get a bit of money back for employing Tarquin or Tamsin or any others of you that want a cushy number!!

 

[beefandsleep]

They would be less likely to get hurt on electric. I’m not sure what the point of double fencing is unless to stop neighbouring cattle having nose to nose contact, in which case a two strand barb behind it would do the trick.

 

[DaveGrohl]

"Job of a lifetime"
Ain't that the truth!!
4 bison? 2 people? Christ on a bike, wtf are they going to do all day? I hope they've got good 4G round there.
That whole story shows just how fekked up the world has become.

 

[Swarfmonkey]

Have they ordered the fleece jackets with a bison embroidered on them yet?

 

[DeeGee]

I thought we were all supposed to be planting trees not pushing them over?

So if I understand it correctly, we will be paid to plant thousands of trees on good farmland. And then they will also pay people to look after bison and beavers to make sure they fell them properly?

 

[AGN76]

This just blows my mind

 

[Flat 10]

The twunts at the NT released wild ponies round here imported from Eastern Europe. Not to be out done a nearby reserve has water buffalo.... they really don’t know what they are doing.

 

[yellowbelly]

This just blows my mind

Looks like they have eartags . Tarquin and Tamsin won't need a tag reader though - theirs will be just No.1 and No.2