Petition Discussions

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Petition ID Commenter Date Comment
3545 ian butler 2020-08-18T19:55:30.207 Please prevent the unnecessary slaughter of our country's fledgling beaver population and aid the translocation of them.
3545 Joe Greenlees 2020-08-18T20:15:21.707 Emgland are leading the way on this
3545 Robert Waterhouse 2020-08-18T20:34:10.467 I consider this to be appalling. Why do people persist in considering wildlife to be a 'problem' to be solved simply...
3545 Natalie McGonigle 2020-08-18T22:01:31.237 This is wrong and is not helpful.
3545 John Goodwin 2020-08-18T22:17:19.357 For 60 years I have been listening to land owners talk about controlling things, when they mean shooting.\r\nBeavers ...
3545 Melanie Pownall-Harris 2020-08-19T00:01:27.48 If farmers are having their lands damaged by Beavers they should be compensated and the rewilding should continue apa...
3545 Craig Lymm 2020-08-19T06:13:39.013 Allow them to naturally spread.
3545 Andrew Aitken 2020-08-19T07:52:36.2 Please relocate not kill.\r\nWhat you are doing by allowing people to buy a licence to shoot a protected species is n...
3545 Gary Ewart 2020-08-19T07:56:18.653 Farmers and shooting estates within Scotland are too quick to kill wildlife. Another option is a available please help.
3545 Deryck van Steenderen 2020-08-19T08:02:03.73 Culling animals critical to ecosystem stabilisation is insanity. Relocation to other areas in need of ecosystem stabi...
3545 Naomi Sharples 2020-08-19T08:04:33.92 Surely it's not beyond the wit of people to be able to move the Beavers, rather than kill them. The decision to rein...
3545 Rosemary Anne MacKinnon 2020-08-19T08:10:22.31 Uk wildlife is already under too much threat. We reintroduced the beavers, we have a responsibility to care for them.
3545 Christopher J Chappell 2020-08-19T08:22:49.563 It is a disgace that licences are being issued to kill beavers and I will not viist Scotland while this policy persis...
3545 Mike Peters 2020-08-19T08:34:16.93 Scotland wishes to be seen as a progressive nation yet continues to have very poor welfare of wild animals as it's tr...
3545 Trevor Thorogood 2020-08-19T08:36:32.38 A very backwards looking policy, vast open spaces and still you want to shoot anything that moves. A wonderful opport...
3545 David Moss 2020-08-19T08:54:21.397 Shooting beavers does seem an odd way of protecting them.
3545 Hugh Brown 2020-08-19T09:05:23.89 Visiting the Knapdale Beaver reserve last year was one of the highlights of our visit to Scotland. Killing these crea...
3545 Linda Malpas 2020-08-19T09:09:13.453 I was utterly staggered when I heard on Spring watch this year of the "licensed killing" of 87 Badgers in Scotland! ...
3545 Mark Bloice 2020-08-19T09:11:02.717 We must protect them all.
3545 kris driessen 2020-08-19T09:15:41.997 In a balanced ecosystem each plant and animal plays a part. You may think that beaver is insignificant, but that's be...
3545 Sarah Cameron 2020-08-19T09:24:20.81 Beavers can help with management of watercourses and extensive areas of habitat and should be moved to new areas and ...
3545 Ian McLean 2020-08-19T09:57:45.643 Well beyond time to end lethal control and to take full advantage of all the benefits that Beavers bring to the count...
3545 Richard Ebbs 2020-08-19T11:14:27.17 Why is human instinct, when confronted with a wildlife "problem", inevitably to kill the perceived perpetrator? Insan...
3545 Nikki Graham 2020-08-19T11:57:57.96 Shooting a protected species is not the way forward. We need to learn how to live in harmony with wildlife as the nat...
3545 Simon Tucker 2020-08-19T13:57:06.9 Translocation throughout the British Isles sounds like a fine idea.
3545 Kim Bliss 2020-08-19T15:22:58.833 Relocation not extermination.
3545 SARAH ASPINALL 2020-08-19T15:35:32.507 Please leave the beavers alone!
3589 Lydia Reid 2020-08-19T17:37:57.49 Our babies are too important to make cost an issue \r\nDo all we can \r\nIn the long run it may save money \r\n
3545 Christine Lassam 2020-08-19T20:09:39.857 Translocating Beavers to Areas where Beavers are needed is vital to help the whole UK with Flooding. Better water ret...
3545 Hazel Grant 2020-08-19T21:22:40.54 Don't hate, relocate! Really though, stop culling things!!
3545 Rachael Holding 2020-08-19T21:27:38.667 Instead of celebrating such wonderful creatures in Scotland, they seem intent on destroying them. I despair of this S...
3545 Debra Foster 2020-08-19T21:39:04.197 Please don't kill them, relocate them!
3545 Angela Coates 2020-08-19T21:40:49.18 Show some compassion please.
3545 peter regan 2020-08-19T22:37:17.597 whats wrong with this country,we spend years trying to introduce a keystone species. But because they become successf...
3545 Alexander Cloke 2020-08-19T22:37:30.097 Considering there are numerous confirmed suitable sites around the UK for beavers, it seems counterproductive killing...
3545 Robert Cowburn 2020-08-20T11:27:59.89 I think the beaver are good for the ecological benefit of the locations.
3545 Alasdair MacKenzie 2020-08-20T11:29:42.063 A great deal of hard work has been put in over many years to reintroducing these iconic animals to Scotland and too a...
3545 Graham Busby 2020-08-20T11:37:18.283 Beavers are a necessary part of the ecosystem.
3545 Graeme Hull 2020-08-20T11:46:32.22 The policy of issuing licences to cull beavers on Tayside, totally undermines their European Protected Status. Additi...
3545 Eric Roy 2020-08-20T11:52:24.473 What a waste, to introduce beavers to Scotland and then to consider killing then rather than relocation.
3545 Tony Biebuyck 2020-08-20T11:56:24.91 Shooting beavers is in microcosm the government failure to get on board with measures to combat environmental degrada...
3545 Catherine Colston 2020-08-20T12:04:42.32 Beavers can be a viable contribution to flood prevention and should be preserved where they can be a vital resource.
3545 Mat Larkin 2020-08-20T12:41:21.617 To reintroduce a native species while at the same time culling a fifth of its fragile population makes little sense i...
3545 Rosemary Rooney 2020-08-20T13:06:04.5 Beavers are experts in managing their environment. Having been reintroduced, they deserve protection and not death.
3545 Alan Cameron 2020-08-20T13:34:07.05 At a time of climate emergency when beavers can be shown to have a positive effect on their environment, moving those...
3545 Christine Packer 2020-08-20T13:40:02.893 Beavers are hugely beneficial to the landscape, to wildlife and for climate change. They belong here so let them have...
3545 Paula Olde-Wolbers 2020-08-20T13:53:21.72 If the Scottish Government is serious about climate change and the environment - translocate beavers - do not shoot t...
3545 Mary Catherine macintyre 2020-08-20T14:02:55.977 let our wildlife thrive.
3545 Vanessa Anderson 2020-08-20T14:51:56.48 Communication and getting local land owners and farmers on board is very important to the success of the project. \r\...
3545 Roger Lindsay 2020-08-20T14:54:36.857 Stop the mass slaughter of Scotland's wildlife now.