- Location
- Hampshire
A shame we can't use the same with the stripey things!@Benj I can and do support the views of those who welcome foxes to their land. It's their land they may do as they please. I've watched foxes for countless hours. Watched them through a scope and not shot them. They are vermin in the eyes of the law. But you are colouring me bad by describing the actions of anyone who controls foxes be that for economic or conservation purposes as 'persecution' as though I was Hitler or a genocidal dictator. I know what effect controlling foxes on my land has done, it has left voles and mice for barn owls to breed where they have not been for generations, it allows lapwings to breed unmolested, it allows broods of wild pheasants to fledge and many more benefits. I accept some places can do this without fox control but my piece of paradise is a new island among intense farming and draws pests and predators along with the colonising species. Perhaps in time it will support unregulated amounts of foxes and sustain its ecologically valuable species as well but it doesn't yet.