Any one got any thoughts on the RSPB’s central management decision to categorise all their woodland reserves as Category 4…Of no value to the RSPB strategy… and is mothballing (at best) or SELLING (at worst) despite the fact that woodland has, as a resource for nature, been identified as poorly managed nationally and, since the 1970s 70 to 80 percent of the birds living in woodland have been lost to us? A free thoughts come to mind for discussion: 1. RSPB management have forgotten what they are about, 2. Birding ids much more difficult, and therefore not as profitable as it is in Category 1 and 2 reserves… Wetland, Estuarine, Cliff
Sorry, one more point i would make is that rewilding cannot happen without management. There are very few, if any, places which, if left, will be left alone by humans, will become quality areas of habitat. We do not have areas of land large enough to adopt this form of management, we have to concentrate areas that are left to make them attractive to wildlife to make them as good as possible for wildlife to prosper, and that can only be achieved through management.
Many thanks for that comprehensive explanation, Andrew. Long live Britain's well-managed woodlands!
Ha haaa, and all the other habitats and wild places that the RSPB bureaucrats see as unimportant in yet another incompetent organisational reorganisation!!!! It would be laughable if it wasn’t so serious.
I’m waiting for the bus from Middlesbrough Bus Station back to Gateshead/Newcastle after being to Saltholme all day. I’ve just received the latest monthly newsletter from Mark Avery. I haven’t read that Newsletter as of yet. I’ll have a look when I arrive home if there is any further news about the cuts at the RSPB.
Regards,
Ian.