Please help us to save wild boar in the UK.
SARC have uncovered several EU directives and international conventions which strongly suggest that wild boar should be being reintroduced into the UK, and should be protected. DEFRA (the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) however think differently. They have proposed a cull of wild boar.
The specific directives and conventions are:
1.
Bern Convention (1979)
2. Rio convention (1992)
3. EC Habitats Directive (1992)
Bern
Convention
Article one of the Bern
Convention states that:
"1.
The aims of this Convention are to conserve wild flora and fauna and their natural
habitats.
2. Particular emphasis is given to endangered and vulnerable species, including
endangered and vulnerable migratory species."
SARC argue that wild boar are and endangered species in the UK, and as we are an island autonomous of mainland Europe, they should be treated as such.
Rio
convention
Article eight of the Rio
Convention
states that the UK should:
"Rehabilitate and restore degraded ecosystems and promote the recovery of threatened species, inter alia, through the development and implementation of plans or other management strategies."
Article nine states that we should:
"Adopt measures for the recovery and rehabilitation of threatened species and for their reintroduction into their natural habitats under appropriate conditions."
EC Habitats Directive
The EC Habitats Directive directs the UK to consider the reintroduction of former British natives such as the wild boar.
HOW YOU CAN HELP
Please contact DEFRA, and urge them to scrap plans for a wild boar cull. Inform them that boar are welcome in our woodland and countryside, and that in areas where they currently live wild they have not had any adverse effect on the local ecology.
DEFRA have even been quoted themselves as saying:
"They were a native species and an integral part of the ecology of the woodland. Their rooting activities mixes soil nutrients and increases the diversity of plant species, which in turn benefits the insects which rely on the plants and so on up the food chain."
DEFRA can be contacted at:
Phone:
0117 372 8903
Fax: 0117 372 8182
Email: species@defra.gsi.gov.uk
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