Important to ask WHY? Why do people still do these out-dated, so-called “traditional” pursuits of killing wildlife. For fun? Our wildlife needs all the help it can get, so exposure of all kinds pointing out the weird futility of killing for “sport” get a bit shout out from me, hence the reblog. Please read on….
We’re driving through the Limousin countryside on a Sunday morning. I become aware of strange goings-on. A man is sat on a chair on his own on the edge of a field. A car is parked in a field entry. A man is striding along with a shotgun. Two men are in a raised wooden platform in the middle of a field. All men. All with guns.
Yes I’ve heard that shooting anything that moves is a French country pastime, this is the real thing.
Now, as far as I can see, there is no great preponderance of wildlife in this part of France. It’s much like the rest of Europe, over-cultivated and lacking in the huge biodiversity of some other parts of our planet. Even perceptibly over a lifetime, nature’s abundance has been reducing, notably with declining populations of insects and birds.
Yet still many thousands of country dwellers…
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