Wild elephants trampling British countryside

[Zardoz]

These figures are astounding. 
Where's the best source for this sort of information?

Tony




--- In Diggers350 at yahoogroups.com, james armstrong <james36armstrong at ...> wrote:
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> BBC complaints
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> Broadcasting House
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> London W1A
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> 31st  August 2010
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> Dear Sir,                        The missing elephant
> herd  in the UK Wildlife programme-
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> Panorama  ,  BBC 1, 30th  August and `Farming Today' Radio 4, 17 June .ad
> nauseum..
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> Farmer R Law of Thrift Farm, Royston, Herts  received £238, 316.78 from Defra as cap
> payments in 2009. (Source-       
> www.cap-payments.defra.gov.uk/search) 
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> From his reported "3,000 acres"
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>  If this land
> £millionaire did not make additional  very
> substantial commercial farm income then he is a fool and  Panorama 
> should not interview farming fools. .
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> Yet we are told if he did not receive £30,000  Defra payments  he would not be able to set aside field
> margins and  leave bare crop  patches for beetles  and skylarks.
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> This suggests the real reason why wildlife is under threat .
> In contrast, this programme  did not do
> so.
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> Quoting  a misleading
> figure of  "£30,000" for his defra
> receipts hugely underestimates this 
> benefit scrounger's handouts and misinforms the viewers. 
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> What plans have BBC to make a programme about  the waste every year , £3.3billion in 2009 ,  paid  to
> landowners posing as `farmers'  by
> taxpayers and the `food security' propaganda , the NFU and CLA lobbies in  Westminster and Brussels,   and other institutionalized  plunder of the public  which millionaire landowners secretly extort in
> U.K. ?
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> Examples are £1.1million (2008/9) to HM Queen for privately
> owning Sandringham estate, £400,000 to Duchy of Cornwall,   £414,000 to Richard Drax,M.P.,  over £100,000 to Peter Kendall, NFU
> president, £19million to Czarnikow and £91million to British Sugar, £1million
> to RSPB and to lords (incl L Rothermere) , viscounts, earls, M.P.s, etc   
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> and not forgetting to one donkey sanctuary at Sidmouth and
> to many racing stables for their gallops.
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> The complaint is that this BBC wildlife programme omits the expensive
> and destructive herd of elephants destroying the British countryside.
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> Yours faithfully
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> James Armstrong
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