Well, someone's had their feathers well and truly ruffled.
Seems to me there's less real
concern for the birds and animals in general and more concern to silence anyone who dares to say Cypriots are no more to blame than anyone else (imagine if I had said Cypriots are
less to blame for species extinction than anyone else especially the Br ... ooopss don't say it lest erolzzzzzzzzzz gets hyper again).
Habitat erosion is the single biggest contributor to bird extinction. Second is farming. (Both are linked to expanding human populations). But don't let facts get in the way of a good rant and an excuse to pretend that you are some kind of
warrior for little birds that might meet their end at the hands of
Cypriots. Because, it's not the 'death of birds' some Brits care about, but it's the fact the naughty subservient
Cypriots must be taught a lesson from their colonial masters that matters. Bash Cypriot heads every time they pop up, like moles. If Brits cared about animals any more than anyone else, as pointed out, battery farming would end. Veal rearing would not be expanding. ETC
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... ecies.htmlShocking!
Nearly 500 species of plant and animal native to England have been wiped out in the past 2,000 years - with most vanishing in the previous two centuries alone.
The roll-call, detailed in a shocking report, includes mammals such as the wildcat and northern right whale, birds such as the great auk and red-backed shrike, and species of butterflies, dragonflies and beetles.
Some creatures, including the bear, were hunted to extinction after the Romans invaded, while others, such as the short-haired bumblebee, were killed off by modern farming techniques during the 1990s.Read more:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z2mD4EQlIO Sparrows, starlings and other common birds are rapidly disappearing – with numbers plummeting by more than a fifth in recent decades.
Some 44million breeding birds have been lost from Britain since 1966, and many species are facing a bleak future.Read more:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z2mD5IYRQc More than two animals and plants a year are becoming extinct in England and hundreds more are severely threatened, a report published today reveals.
Natural England, the government's agency responsible for the countryside, said the biggest national study of threats to biodiversity found nearly 500 species that had died out in England, all but a dozen in the last two centuries.http://www.theguardian.com/environment/ ... es-englandNow, back to Cyprus:
The Cyprus Dipper (Cinclus cinclus olympicus) was endemic to Cyprus. It was a stream wader in the montane forests of the island. This insectivorous bird was last observed ca. 1950 on Cyprus. It disappeared after deforestation.
(wiki)
Thank you Britain for burning the Paphos forest etc ...
What animals have Cypriots
actually been responsible for making extinct? Our endangered species (Mouflon, vulture etc) are identified and protected and have been saved from the sort of mass extinctions observed at the hands of Brits and BIG GAME hunters of the British Empire!
All forms of songbird trappings are illegal in Cyprus. Contrary to what the Brits think about Cypriots, the Cypriots actually CARE about their environment and do NOT go and hunt to extinction any animals! We learnt this valuable lesson
thousands of years ago!
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