What the hell. Who is shooting a bloody goat for trophy sport. I mean they are hardly something to boast about. I had no idea there were even a wild population here
Visit old oat center just before Achill Island!
Any yet the culture anarchists want to canxl Puck Fair.
We’ll do it the American way and shoot them back
Don’t just blame tourists, I’m sure our own are profiting from it first.
Man you’re getting the real lunatics from the US for this.
To be fair the goats are a destruction to our Highlands and they aren’t native natural animal in our landscape
Definitely disappointed with the major fall in goat numbers, but happy they hunt deer too. This is not about me agreeing with trophy hunting or think the world belongs to us humans. It’s about simple ecology. Sika deer populations are growing beyond control and one of their favourite meals is the shoots of new trees, so forests end up with a lot of old trees and very few young trees if any if they haven’t been enclosed in deer fencing. When we removed the wolves a few centuries ago due to our conceit, we removed a creature that kept the ecosystem in check that helped maintain balance. Any species that grows without check will often reach a point of overshoot where it’s numbers are far greater than what it’s environment can provide sustainably leading to that environment and ecosystem deteriorating year on year until it can’t provide sustenance for that species as well as the many many other species that are part of it.
Yes, humans are in overshoot too between population numbers and massive resource use we’ve normalised, but hopefully we can recognise that and take steps to reduce the damage it’s causing before it’s too late.
We should be encouraging more hunting. It would be beneficial to the ecological health of the island.
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There is no better way to broadcast how tiny your willy is than travelling to one of the most degraded and human impacted environments on the planet, to ‘hunt’ tame goats and invasive deer with no natural predators.
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Is it tourists ?
Only 170 left!? Ah that’s sad, goats are savage!
So yanks are coming here with guns and hunting or what’s happening?
The country never ceases to disappoint.
Jesus Christ
It’s time the goats fought back.
https://preview.redd.it/7qbv10n81ivc1.jpeg?width=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=53414a4640920ddde92e15bd9f07a4202e19cd7e
Sad but not surprising
I’m an old Irish goat facing extinction: ama
What the hell. Who is shooting a bloody goat for trophy sport.
I mean they are hardly something to boast about.
I had no idea there were even a wild population here
Visit old oat center just before Achill Island!
Any yet the culture anarchists want to canxl Puck Fair.
We’ll do it the American way and shoot them back
Don’t just blame tourists, I’m sure our own are profiting from it first.
[Here’s one of the cretins that facilitates this](https://www.bookyourhunt.com/en/Tour/10724).
Man you’re getting the real lunatics from the US for this.
To be fair the goats are a destruction to our Highlands and they aren’t native natural animal in our landscape
Definitely disappointed with the major fall in goat numbers, but happy they hunt deer too.
This is not about me agreeing with trophy hunting or think the world belongs to us humans. It’s about simple ecology. Sika deer populations are growing beyond control and one of their favourite meals is the shoots of new trees, so forests end up with a lot of old trees and very few young trees if any if they haven’t been enclosed in deer fencing.
When we removed the wolves a few centuries ago due to our conceit, we removed a creature that kept the ecosystem in check that helped maintain balance. Any species that grows without check will often reach a point of overshoot where it’s numbers are far greater than what it’s environment can provide sustainably leading to that environment and ecosystem deteriorating year on year until it can’t provide sustenance for that species as well as the many many other species that are part of it.
Yes, humans are in overshoot too between population numbers and massive resource use we’ve normalised, but hopefully we can recognise that and take steps to reduce the damage it’s causing before it’s too late.
We should be encouraging more hunting. It would be beneficial to the ecological health of the island.
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There is no better way to broadcast how tiny your willy is than travelling to one of the most degraded and human impacted environments on the planet, to ‘hunt’ tame goats and invasive deer with no natural predators.