"Robert Seago" wrote in message
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Jim Webster wrote:

"Robert Seago" wrote in message
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I hope that somehow
we in society can also retain at least some Marsh Frits.

one of the problems is that too many people make a living out of shroud
waving. If they don't have a scare, their budget is siphoned away to the
more imaginative who do. The Marsh Frits are as much the victims of
this, where common sense and good management get swept aside in the face
of dogma

Jim Webster
But you must accept that the great crash in populations of these
butterflies along with so many others occurred at times of grassland
improvement, not conservation interference.

yep, government interference as opposed to other government interference :-(




Incidentally there is still a very viable population on Salisbury Plain,
where the agriculture is not very intensive, and so many of the other
declined agricultural species still thrive.

It is going to be genuinely interesting to see what the next five years
bring
Jim Webster