For more than twenty years (I think 24 years) I have submitted forms for grants from the EU to continue the fox work and as The British Fox and Wild Canids Study is the only body dealing with fox research and study you might think I might get some success. Unfortunately, grants only go out to selective people/groups who meet the current trend criteria.
I am a white male over 30 so that is an automatic "no". Even though my DNA is 52% German and 7.3% French which over rides my 16% English pulling the "I'm European" card does not help!
In 50 years I have spent far more on the research than I would like to think about. There is no funding for fox research in the UK where foxes are treated like badgers as "dirty mammals" the fate of which no one really cares about (the joke of badgers being a "protected species" is well known).
The work in identifying and getting all of the evidence to reveal the true Old British foxes hunted to extinction, the Old wild cats and so on has been costly. Why did badgers survive the campaigns of melecide when felicide and vulpicide succeeded? I found out why. All with no support.
In 2017 I added a PayPal donation button to the old blog but when a Blogger "hiccup" saw that blog go I had to start from scratch again in 2021 -I added the donation button again. Old blog and new blog there have never been any donations which really signifies how interested people in the UK are in native species -if they are social media "Like" photo opportunities then they are interested
I think that the Fox Deaths Study report being officially suppressed (and, no, neither I or anyone I have discussed this with can make any sense out of that) and I still have the threat of future actions against me hanging over my head.
We need Old Fox and Old wild cat DNA carried out but no UK labs are interested let alone willing to offer their services for free (there would be the possibility of technical papers but "just foxes" I suppose).
The Red Papers were supposed to be works that would at least bring in money to continue the research work but like even the smaller papers -no interest. Again, I spent a LOT of money ordering copies and sending them out to zoologists and organisations that should be interested but not a single response.
In short, the UK is not the place to carry out research and 50 years of long term fox research has achieved nothing other than bankrupting me! So when someone does ask when I am going to post more updated research I am sorry to say that will not be a regular thing because this is a free to view blog (I declined the pay to read option) and quite honestly everything in both Red Papers is fully referenced and if you have a copy you will find out so much that you will not be told in the dogma that are modern wildlife books.
Without sponsors/donators the work hits stumbling blocks.
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