{"id":104675,"date":"2019-03-05T01:29:51","date_gmt":"2019-03-04T18:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/is-it-cruel-to-set-up-nets-that-prevent-birds-nesting\/"},"modified":"2019-03-05T02:03:54","modified_gmt":"2019-03-04T19:03:54","slug":"is-it-cruel-to-set-up-nets-that-prevent-birds-nesting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/is-it-cruel-to-set-up-nets-that-prevent-birds-nesting\/","title":{"rendered":"Is it cruel to set up nets that prevent birds nesting?"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nJeremy Vine and Chris Packham were among those protesting against a property developer\u2019s use of nets in a hedge to keep birds awayA battle broke out at the weekend over a hedge in Lincolnshire. The hedge, near the town of Winterton, was covered in netting by Partner Construction, which has applied for planning permission to build 40 homes on the site. This is standard practice, the developer said, in order to prevent birds from nesting in a habitat that might be damaged if building work begins later in the year.However, a group of local residents opposed to the development released a video showing birds trapped beneath the nets. Jeremy Vine and Chris Packham shared the footage, and their outrage, on Twitter. Packham said the nets showed \u201cbrutal ignorance\u201d of how to look after the countryside, and said, if he were there, he would \u201crip those nets down\u201d, in a tweet that has since disappeared. According to the Telegraph, some of the offending nets have now gone. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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