WITH reference to the letter from Giles Bradshaw headed Our duty to manage foxes and deer, Letters, September 1, is he now trying to blind us with science?

This is all to no avail when we get to the last paragraph of his letter.

He states that not managing deer at all and allowing them to increase until they die would be "unnatural and calamitous". How can this be when they would be leading a totally natural life?

He forgets to include in his tirade that there is one arch predator on this planet — man.

Man is responsible for most of the carnage in the natural world, and let us not forget that the apex predators in this country were hunted to extinction by man.

As we have made such a fruitless job of "managing" wildlife isn't it time we left it to mother nature to sort things out? Given time, she would do a good job and we interfere with nature at our peril.

But I have noticed that the hunting fraternity will use any argument, however spurious, to justify their blood lust.

Joan Jones

Devon Heath

Chudleigh Knighton