From the C4PMC site comes this robust and forthright article regarding the imbalances in conservation legislation, process and the inability of conservation organisations to act.
"When the curlew and lapwing have all gone, it is very clear where the blame will lie, and it won't be with the gamekeepers and moor owners who have to watch the massacre of the chicks, it will be with those who kept silent, and those who were too frightened to simply do the right thing."
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