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…………… “At the risk of making you all very cross, may I suggest that it is time the British gave up on their endless love affair with the dog,” she told an audience at the Telegraph Hay Festival.
Greer argues that the move is necessary in order to protect the English bluebell. “Even the most proactive woodland organisations like the Woodland Trust do not dare to say to dog walkers – who are about the only people who care about our woods – they don’t dare to say to them that they may not bring their dogs into the wood.”
Greer, who owns her own bluebell wood said phosohorous in dog faeces changes the chemical environment and kills off essential fungi.
The author and feminist would also, it seems, have us removed from the woods. “The real threat to our bluebells,” she said, “is the use we make of the woodlands – people running through them, taking photos of each other standing on trampled bluebells.”
“If you love your bluebells kill your dog,” she added dramatically.
I will not be killing my dog !
