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Jimmy - I agree, the Highlands has big issues.
However there is a huge rural industry and culture built up around hour our land is managed, and how we do our don't make money that supports a local economy.
We are also in a place where from a biodiversity point of view it will take hundreds of years to really return to 'natural' (what ever that is).
We are also in a place where there are more competing human pressures and views than ever before.
In my view this means that some of the environmentalist and re-wilding lobby are going to cause as many problems as they solve. I am totally behind a shift from hunting and shooting, sheep and energy's dominance to a more balanced, biodiverse, tourism farming and cultural farming place. However it needs to be more pragmatic and constructive than some of the arguments (like the cause of this thread) than it currently is.