Seagull shooting
Sir,—l feel the public have been conned by the Metropolitan Refuse Committee into believing that the city’s rubbish would be compacted before transfer to the tip for a tidy burial. In practice the results are very different. Even after tip closure for the day, broken blue bags and their contents are scattered over at least a half hectare — little wonder gulls are attracted. The gulls do us untidy humans a favour by cleaning the countryside. There may be too many blackbacked gulls for the welfare of softie riverbed birds, but that is a
matter best left to the Wildlife Service. In this case we have innocent birds being slaughtered because of deficiencies in the Metropolitan Refuse Committee’s management of the tip. Also, can the M.R.C.’s shooter distinguish between the black-backed gulls and the strictly protected black-billed and red billed gulls?—Yours, etc., B. A. CALDER. December 5, 1985.
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