Further to the post on 22 February 2012 (see here), SNH has commissioned an on-line survey to find out what people think about how Scotland’s wildlife is managed.
The link to the survey is now available here
(Interestingly, at the beginning of the survey, you are prompted to identify your ‘role’, such as gamekeeper, land owner, member of the public etc. Depending on which choice you make, you get asked a completely different set of questions!!!!).
You can be sure that landowners, land managers and gamekeepers will be providing their thoughts to the survey, and you can probably guess what they might be saying (‘we want licences to legalise the killing of raptors, badgers, pine martens and any other protected species vermin that dares to interfere with our production of artificially-high gamebird populations’).
If you are sick to the back teeth of watching the destruction of our native wildlife at the hands of landowners, land managers and gamekeepers, then make sure you take part in the on-line survey and let SNH hear your views.
The survey closes on 19 March 2012.
Raptor Persecution UK 
Had a go……but it closes down your options for comment very quickly. You are only allowed to have a very narrow focussed input. Best comment that I can make is that it trys to make you give the answers it wants you to give. My overall feedback was that it was simply a bad survey which prevented me from commenting on significant issues in which I have an interest.
All surveys by consultant groups seem to suffer from the same problem, in that they appear to channel people into neatly manageable groups rather than allow participants to simply express themselves.
However, there was the opportunity to make the point that SNH are paid for by us, the taxpayer, and that they should be getting more involved in eradicating criminal raptor persecution. I am not suggesting that SNH should become police officers, but to get involved in other ways of puting pressure on landowners who seem to think that killing raptors is acceptable.
Agree with both above comments. The survey seems very slanted towards organization’s involved in some way with Shooting estates and Landowners etc. If you are just a very interested member of the public I get the feeling that you are being sidetracked a bit. I get the impression my input will not be taken as seriously as say a Gamekeeper or Land Owner. Just my impression, hope I am wrong.
Yes, I got the impression that if you were not able to tick one of the listed groups then you are very much marginalised.