Bounties on Wildlife In The UK Are Illegal

 

As a demonstration of why foxes and other wildlife in the UK is on the decline...

Last week a "pest controller" was asking how much taxidermists would pay for a melanistic (black) fox as there are some in his area. There was discussion that black or white foxes would fetch a better price than a "common red"!   

Today a taxidermy group are advising someone on how much they can sell a grey squirrel for and how black squirrels fetch another higher price and white squirrels more.  These are online groups of people who KNOW what they are doing and in these cases they are setting bounty prices on UK wildlife -supposedly illegal.  

Rare colouration in animals should not make them targets for dim-witted idiots with guns to kill and make money from and when it comes to known black and white squirrels they are in residential/park areas and using firearms in a suburban area is illegal.  

Red foxes, as noted, are not "common" but the numbers are dropping and, again, to deliberately target black or white foxes that are rare as they will bring in some money is a bounty.  These animals fetch very little but if you are a moron and have no concern for wildlife...

I would encourage anyone noticing people out with a rifle or acting suspiciously in areas where there is wildlife to report them to the police as these people are part of the big problem when it comes to wildlife numbers dropping.