Bosom buddies
The National Trust for Scotland is to receive a £3 million grant from SNH according to an article in Friday's Scotsman:
Meanwhile on the letters page, SNH are asked to concentrate on preserving the endangered wildlife species that we are lucky enough to still have rather than chasing pipe-dreams in the form of the European Beaver. That this call comes from the Scottish Countryside Alliance will probably be sufficient for the SNH high priests to dismiss the call as "politically motivated". This is undoubtedly the case but such motivation has no bearing whatsover on the truth of the matter as outlined in the letter.
John Markland, chairman of SNH, said: "I'm delighted to offer this grant to the NTS, which has demonstrated a very high standard of countryside management for some of Scotland's most valuable landscapes, habitats and species."Presumably this includes the sort of habitat & species 'management' that led to the large scale cull on Mar Lodge Estate?
Meanwhile on the letters page, SNH are asked to concentrate on preserving the endangered wildlife species that we are lucky enough to still have rather than chasing pipe-dreams in the form of the European Beaver. That this call comes from the Scottish Countryside Alliance will probably be sufficient for the SNH high priests to dismiss the call as "politically motivated". This is undoubtedly the case but such motivation has no bearing whatsover on the truth of the matter as outlined in the letter.
posted by Inchbrakie at Sunday, September 11, 2005
2 Comments:
Every time you turn round Holyrood seems to have given a grant of several million to somebody for putting up windmills, preserving rural Scotland, old houses, gaelic, opera (the one libertarians like), moving hedgehogs etc. You would think they were made of money.
Or as is more likely, they think we are made of money.
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