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REPRIEVE: The Ruddy Duck

Stephen Firth

2007-03-25, 1:25 pm

Ruddy ducks are reprieved

REPRIEVE: The Ruddy Duck
http://tinyurl.com/28ab6v

Wigan's doomed ruddy ducks have won a stay of execution. The planned
cull of the beleaguered birds has been postponed - but only until
later in the year.

Pressure has been mounting on Wigan Metro to cancel the controversial
killing of the ducks and this evening (wed) they are expected to
confirm the scheme has been put off until September.
Council chiefs say the cull will still go ahead but only when the bird
breeding season is over.

A Metro spokesman said: "The action to control the ruddy duck is still
supported for reasons set out in earlier reports. It would not be
appropriate to allow access to council-owned land during the bird
breeding season as this is ecologically a very sensitive time of year.
Consequently, it is proposed not to allow DEFRA access until after the
bird breeding season ends in August."

The move has been welcomed by campaigners who have been fighting long
and hard to halt the killing spree.They still plan to protest outside
the Town Hall this evening (Wed) when the decision is endorsed during
an extra-ordinary meeting, called specifically to discuss the
controversy.

Paul Timpson, spokesman for the North West Hunt Saboteurs' Association
(NWHSA), is determined the issue won't be being swept under the carpet
in September.
He said: "I just hope that the authorities don't try and do the cull
quietly in a couple of months time. If the cull does go ahead, after
the birds breed, then surely that makes the issue of killing them
appear even more ridiculous.
"But hopefully the postponement of the cull is a step in the right
direction and we'll only stop protesting when the cull is called off
permanently."

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amacmil304@aol.com

2007-03-26, 3:25 am

On Sun, 25 Mar 2007 16:16:55 +0100, Stephen Firth
<steve@smalloc.co.uk> wrote:

>Ruddy ducks are reprieved
>
>REPRIEVE: The Ruddy Duck
>http://tinyurl.com/28ab6v
>
>Wigan's doomed ruddy ducks have won a stay of execution. The planned
>cull of the beleaguered birds has been postponed - but only until
>later in the year.
>
>Pressure has been mounting on Wigan Metro to cancel the controversial
>killing of the ducks and this evening (wed) they are expected to
>confirm the scheme has been put off until September.
>Council chiefs say the cull will still go ahead but only when the bird
>breeding season is over.
>
>A Metro spokesman said: "The action to control the ruddy duck is still
>supported for reasons set out in earlier reports. It would not be
>appropriate to allow access to council-owned land during the bird
>breeding season as this is ecologically a very sensitive time of year.
>Consequently, it is proposed not to allow DEFRA access until after the
>bird breeding season ends in August."
>
>The move has been welcomed by campaigners who have been fighting long
>and hard to halt the killing spree.They still plan to protest outside
>the Town Hall this evening (Wed) when the decision is endorsed during
>an extra-ordinary meeting, called specifically to discuss the
>controversy.
>
>Paul Timpson, spokesman for the North West Hunt Saboteurs' Association
>(NWHSA), is determined the issue won't be being swept under the carpet
>in September.
>He said: "I just hope that the authorities don't try and do the cull
>quietly in a couple of months time. If the cull does go ahead, after
>the birds breed, then surely that makes the issue of killing them
>appear even more ridiculous.
>"But hopefully the postponement of the cull is a step in the right
>direction and we'll only stop protesting when the cull is called off
>permanently."
>
>

Well done, NWHSA and keep up the pressure. Many people in the UK are
sickened by the treatment of these ducks by Nazi thinking
conservationists. It's good to see cracks appearing in their agenda.

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)

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