The UK Is No Longer Interested In Or Looking To Conserve Species and the Environment

I have to say that with all of the legislation and laws that were brought in to conserve wildlife and the environment I looked on the 2000s as a time when we could get to  work rebuilding all of the human damage to species and environments.  

Protection for badgers was dropped as they became a scapegoat species for poor animal management and Bovine TB.  300,000 killed and no difference in TB outbreaks and more badgers set to be killed and if they cannot be found in the designated cull area then the cull area can be moved so badgers in a bTB clean area can be killed -it's all about money. We now have badgers heading for extinction and is the nation up in arms at the Labour government which promised to stop culls? No. 

We have lost an estimated 65-70 per cent of the UK fox population and yet nothing is done to protect them despite calls for them to be Red Listed and 'protected'. Every night 'sportsmen/women' go outshooting foxes -adults and cubs for 'fun' with impunity and we know that amongst those shooters are off duty police officers.  The fox is therefore heading for extinction.

Cars claim badgers and foxes, deer, hedgehogs and many other species in their thousands each year. Create wildlife crossings in wildlife death black spots? No one in the UK is interested.  Wildlife is killed off then that's one less problem to deal with.

The Conservatives are the Conservatives -hunting, shooting and corrupt to the core (just check the daily news  reports).

Liberal Democrats are seen as "the farmers and countryside" party and they have no interest in stopping culls, hunting or shooting. 

Labour Party -it broke every election promise including stopping the cull and then pushed for it to be easier for developers to push out wildlife such as badgers so that they can build on Green areas -now no longer seen as protected.  In fact, wildlife and the environment are at the very bottom of any Labour list -also a party embroiled with corruption and sleaze.

The Green Party recognises that there is an environmental crisis and yet has openly stated it is doing nothing because it "will cost money" and their councils are pushing for development even on Green sites and their new leader is a man who as an hypnotherapist told a patient he could help boost her bust size "through the power of thought". Wanting to challenge Labour seems far more important to the Greens than what they are supposed to represent and be doing.

The German Green Party was the original and has not compromised on the environment -but Germany as a whole (despite some pro hunt/farmer lobbyists) tends to be far more Green than most countries and maintains that stance.

If you look at most European countries what they do for the environment and wildlife puts the UK in the corner of a very dirty shoe box.

I have spent 50 years of my life looking at, researching and studying UK wildlife whether old or introduced and once we hit the 2000s everything that had been safeguards were rescinded/withdrawn. I now look at the UK as a place were not just the environment but many species are being driven to destruction and this is all due to humans and only humans. A place where wildlife research is stifled or even covered up through threats and intimidation and who cares? Very, very few people.

Welcome to the early stages of modern mass extinction of species.