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Ron Brind Posts: 19041 Joined: 26th Oct 2003 Location: England | quotePosted at 22:01 on 14th April 2009 I heard on the radio today that 27 Voles have been re-housed at a cost of £400,000! I only caught the tail end of it (no pun intended) but surely this can't be right can it? With human life struggling throughout the world, and taxpayers money going down the preverbial, what is this all about and how can it be justified? It makes me sick to hear of such waste of taxpayers money!! What do you the members think? |
Gives Up! ' Posts: 1934 Joined: 30th Apr 2005 Location: UK | quotePosted at 22:19 on 14th April 2009 I am an animal lover Ron, but even I struggle to comprehend £400,000 being spent like this. I struggle to live too, I rarely ask for help! |
| nyyank Posts: 87 Joined: 22nd Jan 2008 Location: USA | quotePosted at 22:47 on 14th April 2009 Vole on the dole. |
Sue H Posts: 8172 Joined: 29th Jun 2007 Location: USA | quotePosted at 22:49 on 14th April 2009  John, you're a hoot! |
| Gives Up! ' Posts: 1934 Joined: 30th Apr 2005 Location: UK | quotePosted at 23:17 on 14th April 2009 I seem to be missing the joke sorry.........explain......  |
| Xxxx Xxxx Posts: 292 Joined: 22nd Mar 2009 Location: Canada | quotePosted at 02:57 on 15th April 2009 did they ( conservationists ) consult Tiggy Winkle or Ratty & Moley for appropriate accomo specs? |
| Xxxx Xxxx Posts: 292 Joined: 22nd Mar 2009 Location: Canada | quotePosted at 03:05 on 15th April 2009 know your vole: http://www.naturesnesteggs.co.uk/woodland-wildlife/20/eastern-england these animals are nearing extinction~~ |
| Ron Brind Posts: 19041 Joined: 26th Oct 2003 Location: England | quotePosted at 07:12 on 15th April 2009 So is the human race Anna, if we are to believe what we are told!! |
Diana Sinclair Posts: 10119 Joined: 3rd Apr 2008 Location: USA | quotePosted at 14:27 on 15th April 2009 Ron, as you know I am a huge animal lover and just short of being a screaming animal rights activist...but even I have a hard time justifying this. Surely there are other options. |
| Xxxx Xxxx Posts: 292 Joined: 22nd Mar 2009 Location: Canada | quotePosted at 16:39 on 15th April 2009 Yes, we ALL going the way of the Dodo~ read : A Gap in Nature~ Discovering the World's Extinct Animals by Tim Flannery & Peter Schouten for instance, Delalande's Coucal..( hunted for its beautiful plumage )last record 1834 ~ habitat, wet forest in north~eastern Madagascar OR, Crescent Nailtail Wallaby last record 1956 Nullarbor Plain, Australia. I've looked, unsuccessfully online to see if I can confirm the expenditure of 400,000 pounds..this article at the very least, excites something. I am presently, as I write this, listening to Australian Bush Sounds...(by David Stewart of Mullumbimby NSW 2000) a treasure of bird and animal songs and cries...this record is, as we speak, being made more precious as a document, with every encroachment to habitat, every human wreakage of development overunning wildlife...all over this planet.
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