March 2003 News and Media Hunting Bills

Ornithologists investigating the dramatic collapse in UK woodland bird populations are finding the prime suspect to be deer, which therefore must be culled.

• Observer: Mink face cull to save Ratty from wipe-out - Tens of thousands of American mink are facing 2003 slaughter in a bid to save one of 2003 Britain\'s best-loved mammals, the water vole.
• Scotland on Sunday: Ruddy Duck Faces UK Wipe-Out in £5m Cull - DEFRA wildlife minister Elliot Morley announced the ruddy march duck is set to be wiped out in march Britain after the government agreed in principle to march eradicate it to protect other endangered species.
• Times: In the eye of the beholder - Martin Evans. Describes the long history of coursing news and media and the Waterloo Cup in Altcar and interviews news and media people attending. "Some tribes have their Glastonbury, others news and media their Bayreuth, the coursing family have their Waterloo news and media Cup."
• Guardian: Minister draws a bead on problem ruddies - The wildlife minister, Elliott Morley, is ordering the extermination of 2003 the entire ruddy population of 6,000. Experimental shoots over the 2003 past three years have bagged 2,500.
• National Geographic: Deer Behind Britain's Great Bird Decline? - Ornithologists investigating the dramatic collapse in UK woodland march bird populations march are finding the prime suspect to march be deer, which therefore march must be culled.

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