When I wrote the post 2030s: There Will Be A UK Wildlife Mass Extinction Event
https://terryhoopernaturalist.blogspot.com/2025/05/2030s-there-will-be-uk-wildlife-mass.html I was not joking or using some sort of shock tactic.
Since the 1990s I have been warning that the UK fox population has been declining to a dangerous level. It was conservatively estimated that we had lost 60% of the fox population, Apparently those gathering the data were unaware of or did not think that 'sport shooters' were a thing. It seems there was disbelief that men and women would go out every night just to kill animals and think of themselves as 'sportsmen'.
Based on what these 'people' claim and show in photos on their "private groups" (proud like true psychopaths posing with their valiant kills) the estimate for the percentage of the fox population we have lost needs to be updated. This also takes into account "thug crimes" where catapults, crossbows and even poisons are used to fatally injure foxes. Also, there seems little knowledge of the number of fox cub and adult deaths from disease because no one, apart from the British Fox and Wild Canids Study (1976), has been looking into that in some detail. Local authorities also hide the fact that rodenticides and pest controllers they employ kill a large number of foxes -I write "hide" but the truth is no one asks and really those people in charge don't care.
My estimate based on all of this is that we have lost 70-75% of the UK fox population.
Although it was declining since the early 1900s no one noticed or bothered as hunts gave (provably even according to supporters) false numbers for foxes killed -that was always the justification for killing more. Basically, not even denial but full knowledge that like their forefathers in the early 19th century they were hunting foxes to extinction -with no more importing of "fresh blood" from Europe a population could only go on so long and with the pointless killing of cubs by throwing them, to hounds out of sadistic pleasure and the hounds a "taste" how could a population continue?
If a fox survives to being three years old it is considered lucky and the ones that live to be five or six years of age are true miracles.
Now we have new legislation coming in thanks to the Labour Party, Keir Starmer and Steve Reed that means developers can destroy fox dens and badger setts as well as a lot more of the UK environment. A corrupt government voted in on its written policies to defend and protect UK wildlife and environment will be noted in natural history books as the Extinction Party. They have already guaranteed that badgers are becoming extinct and the (in writing) aim of clearing badgers from certain parts of England is being achieved.
A Tory government would be of no use as it does not hide its pro hunting stance and neither does the Reform Party. The Liberal Democrats are pro farmers and that includes the cull to keep the farmers on side.
The Green Party is ineffective and absolutely nothing like the German Green Party. As discussed on this blog before, the Greens are pro development and pro countryside/farming. We see hundreds of animals killed each year on the roads in and around Bristol and the Green run Bristol City Council policy is "We don't have the money and are not concerned" -asking the Green Party national HQ if they can influence the Green Council (and three emails later) a very short response that they have forwarded the matter to....the Green Bristol City Council.
Greed and lying as well as destruction of wildlife and the environment is standard in UK politics so that means when the badgers, foxes and hedgehogs as well as all the other species go extinct in the 2030s they will cheer -more land for development!
Protected species has absolutely no standing in the UK.
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