National Conservation Law
The proposed National Conservation Bill is urgently needed, and will provide the Cayman Islands with basic elements of environmental protection which go hand in hand with sustainable development and have long been the norm in most other developed countries. From an international perspective, writing as the Chief Executive of Europe’s largest conservation organisation, it is clear that this Bill does not go as far as much modern nature legislation; it is certainly very far from the extreme environmental measure which some parties are trying to paint it to be.
Instead, the Bill will establish an effective, reasonable and necessary environmental management regime and will fulfil Cayman’s international obligations. Above all, it will help ensure that future generations of Caymanians will be able to enjoy the islands’ world-class natural environment, which is otherwise at risk of disappearing forever.
The RSPB works actively across the UK Overseas Territories, promoting sustainable development and funding local environmental protection. This balanced and relatively modest Bill, having undergone a decade of consultation, only serves to bring the Cayman Islands up to the environmental standards which many other Territories already enjoy. I hope therefore that it may now, at last, be passed.
The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB), a registered charity in England and Wales.
Category: Viewpoint
For all those who believe in organizations who claim to be protecting our environment, here are the facts on funds collected and what is collected and what is spent on the actual protection of birds by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.
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CNS: Here is the actual breakdown RSPB Income and Spend (go to p28)
I think CNS may have meant page 52 for the financials. 89% of funding is spent on RSPB projects. RSPB is not just a birding organisation. Nature is too interconnected; it aims to protect all wildlife. Check out page 11 also for its work with the UK Overseas Territories. If we were making progress Cayman would be featured there too.
CNS: The link takes you to a 31-page document.
What about the protection of passengers in planes? Birds are a continuing threat to air safety and it is the conservationists that go to any lengths to protect their habitat but do not seem concerned that birds can bring down a plane
That this limited law is so controversial shows how backwards the place is and how much power rich greedy landowners and developers have. The UK should force through proper environmental standards. They eat turtles in the Caymans. Says it all.
And I hear you kill poor little cows over there and eat them as steaks…terrible! next you will be eating Deer..uh, what? you do that also….terrible, terrible!!!
Are cows and roe deer endangered species?
Not on farms. Try finding a cow in the wild.
I'll start by using your words to reply and I quote:
Sir Winston Churchill would have been eating wild turtle, as the farm started three years after his death. A soup-canning factory operated near the Barcadere. Such an interesting part of Cayman history. But it should be just that : history.
I have tried turtle. Once. Was not impressed. Something you typically stew is never going to be a great meat. But if that is your history,consign it to history, where it belongs. If that is your "culture" then you have no culture worth speaking of. I agree 100% with the poster to whom you responded in your little rant. And don't go using Latin terms if you can't spell them, it shows you up, sweetie-pie. And I did not know that "bangers" or "mash" were endangered species. You learn something new every day. is it both of them? Or just the "bangers"?
Just because you declare that we have no culture doesn't mean that we have no culture. What it does mean is that you are uncultured to make such a comment.
Since the "culture" seems to be largely limited to eating turtle, then that counts as no culture to most civilized folks.
ah, so now we're culturless and uncivilized? Wow, care to call us any more nasty names to make yourself feel superior?
No, cultureless and uncivilised will do for now. But thanks for asking.
Bonne Nuit,
I feel really badly that my comments may have hurt your feelings, but you started it by saying some pretty nasty things about The caymans. We are gradually beginning to understand the importance of the protection of the natural environment. So please bear with us as we adjust to the ways of the bird watchers. Just kidding!
Seriously I'm sorry I said all those nasty things I did! So please calm down! I'm so sorry! Thanks for reminding me that I misspelled Homo-Sapiens, so from now on I'll use Neanderthals instead. We shouldn't get angry, it's bad for us! My point was in the piece I wrote, is, that when I go to England I'll have a dish of bangers and mash, or if I'm in japan I'll have some whale soup. The English and the Japanese think that their dishes are delicious just like I think my turtle is too, and I'm happy for them. But none of them are as nutritionally healthful as my Turtle, that's a fact. So let's be friends, and not disparage each other. OK? You can say PO-TAE-TO and I say PO-TAH-TO and we'll all get along some how. After all Christmas is around the corner so let's be friends.
Have a Wonderful Christmas.
So you love turtle meat and whale. Do you eat shark fin soup in China? Do you wear ivory and black coral jewellry? Do you drink Rhinocerous horn tea for your impotence? Not only can we not be friends but don't come around my family.
Wow ! I never knew that! Could you spare a little of the rhino horn!
Neanderthals were a different species.
Tell me where you stand on juicy blue iguana steaks?
You have a point – people who eat turtle are as objectionable as those that eat whale.
Ummmm…nope. Last time I checked there were no whale farms. They are hunted from the wild. Big difference. Try again.
Proof turtle munchers have nothing worth saying.
Europeans always have to be believe they are culturally superior to everyone else. When they are not enslaving or making war on the defenceless they are telling you what to think and how you should act to conform with them.
You seem to have confused Europeans with Americans.
No. Same tribes.
Which cave is your one?
I don't eat turtle anymore and I believe Boatswain Beach should be closed down. However, in fairness I will observe that Cayman has a turtling past precisely because there was once huge international demand for turtle products. Green turtlesoup was once a staple item on supermarket shelves in the UK and US. Winston Churchill ate a bowl of green turtle soup every night.
When you people came here to visit and live YOU liked it the way it was. Thats why you stayed. True?? The more you change it the more you going to hate it. Don't come later and ask what happened. We got rid of the mosquitoes and so the bird population went down. People feeding the birds are bringing the population back up. They were a nusiance back in the day when we had cisterns . You know that cement box you see in peoples yards full of water. Well everything has a reason the more you ask the more you will know. Birds crap on top of the roof. More birds more crap. Reservoirs work the same way.
The chickens that are running around loose also have a interesting diet. Most birds eat insects. Chickens especially love roaches and worms and pretty much anything that has a hint of yellow like digested corn . Snowy white egrets like ticks with blood in them . Not a good idea to make that tame.
Turtles are safer and more protein then cattle meat. As the news media slowly get whistleblowers from fast food rest. they find out we're eating more horsemeat then we knew. Did you taste the difference?? How can anyone eat a calf or a cow its like a dog. It only has one calf per year. It gives milk to its young like humans?? I guess when the facts are known we are probably more civilized then you . So go and taste the turtle meat and make a comparison.
Thank you to Dr. Clarke for this thoughtful and timely post, and to RSPB for its assistance in protecting and promoting the Cayman Islands' Important Bird Areas!