BIRDING THE LUNE ESTUARY THE FOREST OF BOWLAND AND BEYOND......................................................MEDITTERANEAN GULLS CONDER POOL PETE WOODRUFF

Tuesday 21 March 2017

A Grand Day Out.

Children from North Yorkshire will soon be enjoying a special conservation experience on grouse moors with the British Association for Shooting & Conservation thanks to funding from North Yorkshire Police.


Moorland Heather. Pete Woodruff.
A grant from the Police Property Fund will enable hundreds of youngsters between the ages of six and eleven to take part in experience days which will see them visiting the North York Moors, helping with conservation tasks and learning about habitat and wildlife unique to the region.  The police have been keen to support BASC's application with one of the funds largest ever grants which will provide an unforgettable experience for youngsters, and will allow them to find out all about life on the moors through the eyes of a local gamekeeper....well that'll be riveting.

I don't have the time to add much else to this short post, but there are lots of good chuckles to be had out of it, perhaps the best one's I had was that maybe they will be intending to help identify the various traps they set to catch/kill anything that gets caught in them, help the kids to identify the dead animals they come across on their days on the moors, perhaps tell them about the damage caused by the burning of heather, and even educate them on the 'conservation' connection between the gamekeeper, the Red Grouse and the Hen Harrier.

The BASC....Educating the kids on Wildlife and Conservation....Mmmmm!

I'd sooner be birding, but no doubt you've gathered I haven't been lately.

4 comments:

  1. Yes certainly a wonderful place Ana, a lot more wonderful than the people who 'manage' it.

    Always appreciate when I see you've been looking in on Birds2blog.

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  2. Conservation under Brexit/Tories kicking in now. A laudable rural awards ceremony in the House of Lords today for the Countryside Alliance with a keynote speech by Andrea Leadsom and some very deserving recipients including a welsh cow-tanner. They will be the people consulted on environmental issues from now on.

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  3. I'm going overboard with my politeness and good manners here Pete....

    What a wonderful combination, the Countryside Alliance and Andrea Leadsom, the first thing you see on the CA website is a Beretta shotgun, and Andrea Leadsom could well have been our PM....My God.

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