Re: Superb example of conservation in action
- From: amacmil304@xxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 20:24:04 +0000
On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 00:28:02 +0000, malcolm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
wrote:
In message <op0rv2t55ieumfov176hqmisgfvv4flcsn@xxxxxxx>,
amacmil304@xxxxxxx writes
On Sun, 18 Mar 2007 16:09:20 +0000, Malcolm
<Malcolm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
15 MARCH 2007 NEWS RELEASE No: 9460
WILDLIFE RANGERS LAUNCH UNDERCOVER MISSION TO ATTRACT MORE OSPREYS TO
CUMBRIA
Forestry Commission wildlife rangers are starting work on an undercover
mission to attract more Ospreys to new locations in Cumbria.
A number of potential new breeding sites have been identified at secret
locations around the county and will undergo a dramatic face-lift in the
coming weeks to offer more ospreys a variety of attractive and secluded
nest sites.
A team of wildlife rangers from Grizedale Forest have joined forces with
the Lake District National Park forestry team to construct a series of
artificial osprey "supernests" to appeal to the migrating birds as they
fly back over the county this spring.
Each osprey nest will be the size of a single-bed and take a day to
construct. The timber platform base will be covered by a cocoon of
wire-mesh to give added strength. Branches, twigs and moss will be
painstakingly applied by hand to re-create the appearance of a real
osprey nest and to withstand the worst that the Cumbrian weather can
throw at them.
Mike Thornley, Chief Wildlife Ranger for the Forestry Commission at
Grizedale Forest, says:
"Cumbria has a limited number of potential breeding sites for ospreys,
so we've decided to offer the birds ready-made nests that will hopefully
attract them to new locations around the county.
"If the project is successful the ospreys will be able to use the same
nest year-after-year."
Once the work is complete the project team can only wait and hope that
the ospreys will approve of their new designer homes and that these
special birds will settle down in the nests.
The exact location of the new sites will remain under wraps to allow any
potential new osprey couples the privacy and seclusion they demand for
successful breeding.
Ospreys have been nesting at Bassenthwaite Lake since 2001, when a pair
of the spectacular birds bred in the Lakes for the first time for at
least 150 years. The ospreys decided to nest in another artificial nest
platform that the Forestry Commission and the National Park Authority
created.
The return of ospreys to the Lake District is one of the greatest
conservation stories of recent years, and the birds are bringing
important economic benefits to the region. Around 100,000 visits are
able to see the nesting birds each year at special viewpoints set up by
the Lake District Osprey Project. Visitors who come to see the ospreys
contribute around £2 million to the Cumbrian economy each year.
I thought it wouldn't be conservation. It's tourism and the
encouragement of even more pollution and environmental damage to the
Lake District.
There will be no more visitors to the park than there were before, and
environmental damage will be less.
They won't spend so long driving slowly around looking at the view they
will park enjoy a walk and some good views of wildlife.
Its called a win win situation.
The Osprey Viewpoint at the Forestry Commission's Dodd Wood near Keswick
will re-open to visitors in early April 2007.
The Lake District Osprey Project is managed by the Forestry Commission
and the RSPB, in partnership with The Lake District National Park
Authority.
See my responses to Dr Thick.
Angus Macmillan
www.roots-of-blood.org.uk
www.killhunting.org
www.con-servation.org.uk
All truth passes through three stages:
First, it is ridiculed;
Second, it is violently opposed; and
Third, it is accepted as self-evident.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)
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