Our wildlife heritage must be valued

Irish politicians need to educate themselves about the value of Ireland’s multi-faceted wildlife heritage, instead of encouraging its gratuitous destruction.

Three years ago a senator called for the killing of seagulls, citing their supposed anti-social activities in parts of Dublin and demonising them to the point that images of the Luftwaffe strafing the country’s beaches and bombing the rubbish tips of our capital began to form in people’s minds.