Evil is unspectacular and always human

Please go to You Tube and for this Blog`s theme, which I still am not able to put a link for you for.......please choose Don Edwards singing COYOTES. this is for two reasons: it is another song which is elegaic in its theme.. a celebration and regret of what we are losing, and more especially it is about those survivors..coyotes, or jackals.
When I was at Isari, not far from Lykaeio, and hardly ANY distance where I saw all the dead foxes, and was able, by putting her on her lead, to save Bling from that particular mass poisoning event, I heard Jackals singing. Although I have seen jackals before, and lived in a village where they sometimes returned the village dogs evening bark, this was the loveliest chorus.
I only heard it because three children, Armando, Ronaldo and Julia, told me that I might hear them. They told me about the song with great pride. It was something special that their adopted village (they were from Albania) could offer a nature
loving visitor.
So that night, when the dogs did what in 101 Dalmatians Walt Disney calls the "twilight bark" I listened. And sure enough, suddenly, the dogs fell silent as the voice of the wilderness filled the air with its strange and eerie beauty.
At that time I didnt know about the deadly capsules that did for Bling. I knew that foxes were systematically attacked in that area, but I thought it was with the "usual" poison that these arseholes put out all over Greece.
I had wondered why all the foxes had died right near the path, as in my (unfortunately extensive) experience ,what wild animals do when poisoned is creep away to die in a hidden place, they don`t drop dead on the spot. That was before I knew what a deadly deadly cocktail was being fed..before I had seen a capsule.
And now that I do know what people are capable of doing to their own home mountains, then I realised how little likelihood there is that Julia, Armando and Ronaldo will continue to be delighted by the jackals, and how I may be one of the last travellers to that lovely place to hear them.
That seems to me something that needs to be said again.
How can there be an agency that sells idiots the possibility of wiping out something as lovely as a jackal`s song? Some "humans" are enabling other "humans" to destroy everything that is truly beautiful. It can only be for commercial reasons.
Another thing, as one comment on my previous post points out, is that these capsules are likely to be attractive to children too. We all know that, whatever you do ,a toddler`s first impulse is to stuff something interestingly new in its mouth. I lost Bling. But someone could have lost a child.
I also got an email from someone who tells me that in her village goats and sheep have also fallen victim to poison. The police? "bring us the body of the poisoned creature and we will conduct an investigation."
Yeah right.
In a village I lived in the cop and the mayor were the two people who did the poisoning.. albeit with the less immediately lethal, but neverthe less murderous , mixtures of herbicides and other domestic items which they make up to their own particular recipes.
OK thats it for poisons for the time being.
I`ll be back with a proper blog soon.
Don`t forget to listen to Don Edwards explaining why we need coyotes.
The quote in the title of this post is from a poem by Auden entitled "Herman Melville."

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