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"Millions of birds and animals were slaughtered in England and Wales
under a Tudor law which is now being blamed for bringing many native
species close to extinction."
"While environmental change is generally held responsible for the damage
to British wildlife, new research has revealed that the Tudors were
actually responsible for reducing many native creatures to a critically
endangered level. Species ranging from hedgehogs and water voles to
choughs and dippers were systematically slaughtered."
"Wildlife and ecology suffered - and continues to suffer - to an extreme
extent from the systematic medieval attempts to eradicate certain
species. In a war between man and nature, there would only ever be one
winner."
For the rest see:
http://environment.guardian.co.uk/conservation/story/0,,1984640,00.html
Aleks
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