You're walking in the countryside or driving along a wooded lane and you spot a wild animal. What do you do?
'QUICK! QUICK! LOOK! OVER THERE!'
You want your children to share that moment of wonder - open their eyes to the delights of nature. I expect your parents did something similar. You see the world through the child's eyes.
It's as simple and basic as that. It's what an appreciation of wildlife is all about. It's where an understanding of animal rights begins.
The other starting point is children's fiction: Tarka the Otter, Watership Down and White Fang, and all the others. I shouldn't mention The Badgers of Beechen Cliff in the same paragraph as those, but it does a similar job. It tries to get inside a secret world and present a different view from the dominant, human one.
There may be a case for culling badgers. There may not. The evidence for and against is in dispute. What can never be in dispute is that whenever we take a casual, callous attitude towards our natural surroundings and the animals that inhabit them, we lose out as human beings.
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