After years of CONservation hooligans feathering their own nests, and
squandering tax payers money by spending millions on slaughtering
rats, ruddy duck, deer and quangos like SNH and duff advisers like
Ogilvie the pedant and troll who has so much time on his hands he can
spend it stalking people here. Just what work does he do?. The reins
are being pulled on CONservation hooliganism.

About time I say. We have seen too many fat cats in charities like the
RSPB playing loose and free with taxpayers money, whilst doing nothing
for genuine conservation issues.


http://tinyurl.com/23j2gf

Years of nature protection could be put on hold or reversed if
proposed cuts of 15-30% to the budget for conserving England's most
beautiful places and wildlife are pushed through in the next few
weeks.

Proposals seen by the Guardian show that the Department of the
Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is proposing to slash the
budget of Natural England, its statutory independent nature advisers.

The organisation was set up one year ago by Defra to protect wildlife,
maintain nature reserves, and improve the state of Britain's most
important natural places. 

It is understood that Natural England's £51m budget for new
conservation work would be reduced by 15% this year with deeper cuts
expected later. The organisation is also being forced by the Treasury
to repay the £16m spent setting it up and to meet 2% across the board
efficiency cuts

One option being considered by Defra is to cut:

• £4m from improving Britain's most important sites of sites of
special scientific interest (SSSIs). These are already in poor
condition and the government is certain to not fulfil its election
pledges if it cuts the budget;
• £2m making access to the countryside easier for ethnic minorities
and others. This is considered vital to make the countryside
accessible to all;
• £2m to improve and maintain areas designated as being of
"outstanding natural beauty";
• £2m to enhance national nature reserves. These are in danger of
being neglected;
• £700,000 on scientific research.

In addition, programmes to conserve the habitats of some Britain's
most endangered "flagship" species would be cancelled. These might
include the dormouse, the stone curlew, the otter, rare orchids and
other birds and mammals.

If the cuts go ahead it could set back conservation many years, say
environmentalists. 

"When money gets tight, it's always the environment and biodiversity
in particular that suffers. Natural England was set up by this
government and now it looks as if it is being strangled," said Mark
Avery, the director of conservation at the RSPB. 

"It would seriously undermine protection of the most important and
cherished places and wildlife in England just at the time when the
value of the environment is being recognised for the benefits it
brings to health and the economy", said a government source. 

Natural England has a nominal budget of more than £450m but this is
almost entirely ringfenced with payments to farmers and landowners.
Any cuts imposed by Defra would have to have to come from the £51m the
organisation has to spend on new work. 

Defra itself has been given a below-inflation increase of 1.4% in its
£3.8bn budget over the next three years as part of the Treasury's
comprehensive spending review. But more than £200m of this increase
has been earmarked for improved flood defences after this year wet
weather, and much of the rest has been set aside to help councils
recycle more waste to meet EU targets. 

The department has also had to pick up the unexpected costs of the
latest foot and mouth and blue tongue disease outbreaks and has not
fully recovered from the £200m cuts imposed by the Treasury last year
following late farm payments.

"No final decisions on the corporate spending review budget allocation
have yet been made. Protecting and enhancing the environment of course
remains an absolutely key priority for Defra," a spokeswoman for the
department said

On Thu, 08 Nov 2007 07:54:08 +0000, Gloria
 wrote:

>After years of CONservation hooligans feathering their own nests, and
>squandering tax payers money by spending millions on slaughtering
>rats, ruddy duck, deer and quangos like SNH and duff advisers like
>Ogilvie the pedant and troll who has so much time on his hands he can
>spend it stalking people here. Just what work does he do?. The reins
>are being pulled on CONservation hooliganism.
>
>About time I say. We have seen too many fat cats in charities like the
>RSPB playing loose and free with taxpayers money, whilst doing nothing
>for genuine conservation issues.


Quite right.  Not before time! These grant sucking fake conservation
organisations need to be stopped in their tracks and the vast majority
of them starved of the taxpayers' money

>
>
>http://tinyurl.com/23j2gf
>
>Years of nature protection could be put on hold or reversed if
>proposed cuts of 15-30% to the budget for conserving England's most
>beautiful places and wildlife are pushed through in the next few
>weeks.
>
>Proposals seen by the Guardian show that the Department of the
>Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is proposing to slash the
>budget of Natural England, its statutory independent nature advisers.
>
>The organisation was set up one year ago by Defra to protect wildlife,
>maintain nature reserves, and improve the state of Britain's most
>important natural places. 
>
>It is understood that Natural England's £51m budget for new
>conservation work would be reduced by 15% this year with deeper cuts
>expected later. The organisation is also being forced by the Treasury
>to repay the £16m spent setting it up and to meet 2% across the board
>efficiency cuts
>
>One option being considered by Defra is to cut:
>
>• £4m from improving Britain's most important sites of sites of
>special scientific interest (SSSIs). These are already in poor
>condition and the government is certain to not fulfil its election
>pledges if it cuts the budget;
>• £2m making access to the countryside easier for ethnic minorities
>and others. This is considered vital to make the countryside
>accessible to all;
>• £2m to improve and maintain areas designated as being of
>"outstanding natural beauty";
>• £2m to enhance national nature reserves. These are in danger of
>being neglected;
>• £700,000 on scientific research.
>
>In addition, programmes to conserve the habitats of some Britain's
>most endangered "flagship" species would be cancelled. These might
>include the dormouse, the stone curlew, the otter, rare orchids and
>other birds and mammals.
>
>If the cuts go ahead it could set back conservation many years, say
>environmentalists. 
>
>"When money gets tight, it's always the environment and biodiversity
>in particular that suffers. Natural England was set up by this
>government and now it looks as if it is being strangled," said Mark
>Avery, the director of conservation at the RSPB. 
>
>"It would seriously undermine protection of the most important and
>cherished places and wildlife in England just at the time when the
>value of the environment is being recognised for the benefits it
>brings to health and the economy", said a government source. 
>
>Natural England has a nominal budget of more than £450m but this is
>almost entirely ringfenced with payments to farmers and landowners.
>Any cuts imposed by Defra would have to have to come from the £51m the
>organisation has to spend on new work. 
>
>Defra itself has been given a below-inflation increase of 1.4% in its
>£3.8bn budget over the next three years as part of the Treasury's
>comprehensive spending review. But more than £200m of this increase
>has been earmarked for improved flood defences after this year wet
>weather, and much of the rest has been set aside to help councils
>recycle more waste to meet EU targets. 
>
>The department has also had to pick up the unexpected costs of the
>latest foot and mouth and blue tongue disease outbreaks and has not
>fully recovered from the £200m cuts imposed by the Treasury last year
>following late farm payments.
>
>"No final decisions on the corporate spending review budget allocation
>have yet been made. Protecting and enhancing the environment of course
>remains an absolutely key priority for Defra," a spokeswoman for the
>department said 
Angus Macmillan
www.roots-of-blood.org.uk
www.killhunting.org
www.con-servation.org.uk

All truth passes through three stages:
First, it is ridiculed;
Second, it is violently opposed; and
Third, it is accepted as self-evident. 
-- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)

On Thu, 08 Nov 2007 10:35:35 +0000, amacmil304@aol.com wrote:

>On Thu, 08 Nov 2007 07:54:08 +0000, Gloria
> wrote:
>
>>After years of CONservation hooligans feathering their own nests, and
>>squandering tax payers money by spending millions on slaughtering
>>rats, ruddy duck, deer and quangos like SNH and duff advisers like
>>Ogilvie the pedant and troll who has so much time on his hands he can
>>spend it stalking people here. Just what work does he do?. The reins
>>are being pulled on CONservation hooliganism.
>>
>>About time I say. We have seen too many fat cats in charities like the
>>RSPB playing loose and free with taxpayers money, whilst doing nothing
>>for genuine conservation issues.
>
>
>Quite right.  Not before time! These grant sucking fake conservation
>organisations need to be stopped in their tracks and the vast majority
>of them starved of the taxpayers' money

That would ensure unsavory characters like Ogilvie crawled back in the
gutter they came from.