Reinstate funding for Skomer Island's Guillemot monitoring
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Marilyn Dunkelman
12 years ago
Such a small amount for such an important project
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Callum J Macgregor
12 years ago
Long-term monitoring projects are arguably the most essential and valuable form of ecological research. This one's a steal at £12k a year, and I can't understand why it would be cut.
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Jeremy Smith
12 years ago
There is little enough funding for ecological studies as it is, don't reduce it further.
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Andrew Gosler
12 years ago
they know the price of everything and the value of nothing!
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Claire
12 years ago
With humans destroying more of Earth's ecosystems on a daily basis through pollution and habitat losses, we need to monitor more than ever. We desperately need these valuable studies.
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Anonymous
12 years ago
Disgracefull.
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David Fidler
12 years ago
£12,000 is nothing of the budget that NRW have, and the dataset in question is so powerful and important to understanding seabird populations, especially given the recent weather. This study should be allowed to continue!
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Rob Thomas
12 years ago
Long term datasets such as this are essential for tracking the impacts of climate and pollution on Wales' ecosystems. NRW should treat the environment as a resource to protect rather than as a resource for humans to exploit!
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Katherine A Jones
12 years ago
I am ashamed to live in Wales. Interesting to note the new logo cost £7625. Are cuts to wildlife conservation the price of restructuring?
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Professor Jon Slate
12 years ago
Long term studies of wild populations are demonstrably more valuable (in terms of scientific outputs and insight) than smaller, piecemeal studies. The Skomer gullemot study is one of the longest running, and therefore most valuable. It would be lunacy to cease funding it.
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Rosanne Alexander
12 years ago
I wonder if the people who made this decision walked among the corpses of seabirds that littered our beaches this winter. I wonder if they have ever seen a live guillemot. Is this what our Welsh Government intended when they created an environment organisation so ungainly that seabirds have become irrelevant? Is this the future for conservation in Wales?
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Shirley Matthews
12 years ago
This is a short sighted and wrong decision to be made at this time, following the severe winter weather. Please reconsider the decision to cut funding for this research project.
Such a small amount for such an important project
Long-term monitoring projects are arguably the most essential and valuable form of ecological research. This one's a steal at £12k a year, and I can't understand why it would be cut.
There is little enough funding for ecological studies as it is, don't reduce it further.
they know the price of everything and the value of nothing!
With humans destroying more of Earth's ecosystems on a daily basis through pollution and habitat losses, we need to monitor more than ever. We desperately need these valuable studies.
Disgracefull.
£12,000 is nothing of the budget that NRW have, and the dataset in question is so powerful and important to understanding seabird populations, especially given the recent weather. This study should be allowed to continue!
Long term datasets such as this are essential for tracking the impacts of climate and pollution on Wales' ecosystems. NRW should treat the environment as a resource to protect rather than as a resource for humans to exploit!
I am ashamed to live in Wales. Interesting to note the new logo cost £7625. Are cuts to wildlife conservation the price of restructuring?
Long term studies of wild populations are demonstrably more valuable (in terms of scientific outputs and insight) than smaller, piecemeal studies. The Skomer gullemot study is one of the longest running, and therefore most valuable. It would be lunacy to cease funding it.
I wonder if the people who made this decision walked among the corpses of seabirds that littered our beaches this winter. I wonder if they have ever seen a live guillemot. Is this what our Welsh Government intended when they created an environment organisation so ungainly that seabirds have become irrelevant? Is this the future for conservation in Wales?
This is a short sighted and wrong decision to be made at this time, following the severe winter weather. Please reconsider the decision to cut funding for this research project.