Whichever view you take, multicultural and tolerant or disapproving and fearful, the awkward fact is that we have not been breeding fast enough (or young enough) to keep society functioning without outside help, let alone educating ourselves to the levels a post-industrial economy is going to need.
In 2007 there were 15 breeding pairs in England.
The indefinite incarceration is a breeding ground for mental health issues.
The official investigation found that the breeding ground for the Sars coronavirus in the Amoy blocks was the toilet system.
The hen harriers report, written by a group of five ecologists headed by Prof Steve Redpath, studied the expected capacity of upland shooting estates for breeding hen harriers and compared that to the actual number found.
A UK-wide survey in 2008 then found only five breeding pairs had survived - a 1% success rate.
But another Houston mosque was a target for arsonists in 2011, while in 2006, residents in one suburb mobilised against a plan to build a mosque, claiming that it could become a breeding ground for terrorists and prompting a local farmer to hold pig races on Fridays, a holy day for Muslims.
Professor Melville Snyman, the Tourism Research in Economic Environs and Society Director at North-West University, concludes: Case studies from South Africa have shown that as soon as the hunting of a species is allowed, it leads to the breeding as well as conservation of the particular species.
Backup colonies, insurance populations, or captive breeding troupes – whatever your preferred term – have increasingly become the norm in amphibian conservation.
There is no suggestion that conventional breeding should be subject to a complex and politicised regulatory process but, correspondingly, there is no reason why GM should have this burden.
It estimated that between 2003-07 there should have been 499 breeding pairs on the 3,696km2 of grouse moors across Britain which were being "driven", or actively used for shooting, in those years.
