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With many of us confined to our homes, much has been made of wildlife ‘returning’ to urban areas – mountain goats roaming the streets of  Llandudno for example – but what of the British countryside they usually call home?

Last week, when the BBC Radio 4 show Short Cuts claimed that there were just 100 grey partridges left in the UK, we responded straight away.

While we welcome the BBC highlighting the decline of grey partridge in Britain sadly the reporters have their numbers all wrong.

George Monbiot forgot to mention that controlled winter heather burning (Opinion, 12 February) has been used for thousands of years to create and protect our open heather moorlands.

The unintended consequence of increasing wildfire risk by allowing the views of ecological fundamentalists to replace the common sense approach of indigenous peoples is not limited to Australia.