:00:00. > :00:08.Tonight, the disturbing evidence that poaching is no longer just one
:00:09. > :00:13.for the pot. It is the barbaric way it is done.
:00:14. > :00:17.It might take a field or two fields to pull the thing down, and then
:00:18. > :00:19.they, in some way, stab the thing to death.
:00:20. > :00:24.Also tonight, they have been waterlogged for weeks. What is the
:00:25. > :00:30.solution for the Somerset Levels? Is it worth sacrificing some land
:00:31. > :00:32.here in order to save the rest? Effectively, this could become the
:00:33. > :00:36.sacrificial lamb that they are talking about.
:00:37. > :00:40.And Nick Baker wades in with the waterfowl.
:00:41. > :00:48.I don't think there is anywhere else in the South Westwhere you can see
:00:49. > :01:07.this number of birds so close. I am Sam Smith. Welcome to Inside
:01:08. > :01:10.Out South West. First tonight, we investigate the
:01:11. > :01:13.alarming rise in poaching in the South West and evidence that the
:01:14. > :01:21.crime has taken an alarming new direction. This report contains some
:01:22. > :01:26.pictures of butchered dear. Police here. Can we come in?
:01:27. > :01:29.The crackdown on poaching. This is one of several addresses across the
:01:30. > :01:37.being raided by officers from the police and RSPCA.
:01:38. > :01:40.We told you why we are here and why we are searching the premises.
:01:41. > :01:47.In the back garden, they make a grisly discovery. And a number of
:01:48. > :01:54.dogs suspected of being used for poaching are seized.
:01:55. > :01:58.Out of our target of the 15 dogs that we were looking to identify to
:01:59. > :02:02.start off with, we have got three here. Also in the back garden, we
:02:03. > :02:05.have got a deer's head, legs of deer, hindquarters, all chopped up.
:02:06. > :02:09.They are kept in really miserable conditions.
:02:10. > :02:22.A person is arrested and the dogs are inspected for injuries. What
:02:23. > :02:25.nobody here has been convicted of wrongdoing, the authorities say that
:02:26. > :02:28.poaching is on the increase and they are seeing more and more evidence of
:02:29. > :02:32.a worrying new trend. It seems to be groups of young lads
:02:33. > :02:35.that are becoming not organised, but forming gangs that are going out and
:02:36. > :02:39.roaming the countryside at night. With this purpose in mind, to just
:02:40. > :02:45.set their dogs on and destroy anything that moves.
:02:46. > :02:50.A lightning fast lurcher is let loose on a young deer or fawn.
:02:51. > :02:56.Hunting with dogs was outlawed in 2005, but this footage is said to
:02:57. > :02:59.have been shot before the ban. The dog soon catches its prey, the
:03:00. > :03:09.pictures are too distressing to show, but the soundtrack speaks for
:03:10. > :03:13.itself. The police and RSPCA say that this
:03:14. > :03:16.is typical of the kind of material that they are finding more and more
:03:17. > :03:22.on laptops, tablets and mobile phones seized from poachers.
:03:23. > :03:26.Some of the video that we've seen is absolutely barbaric and we wouldn't
:03:27. > :03:31.be able to show it on television or for general release. It is that bad.
:03:32. > :03:36.There is a level of cruelty that I have not seen before.
:03:37. > :03:40.Sergeant Canning is a wildlife crime officer. He is on the front line in
:03:41. > :03:45.the fight against the growing problem of poaching.
:03:46. > :03:48.More than 44% of all intelligence reported to the National Wildlife
:03:49. > :03:52.Crime Unit is related to poaching and Devon has a bigger poaching
:03:53. > :03:58.problem than anywhere else in the UK.
:03:59. > :04:01.This is big business. These are all taken at night, illegally, probably
:04:02. > :04:04.trespassing as well. They are indiscriminate, they don't care
:04:05. > :04:09.whose land they are on and where they go. They turn up at night and
:04:10. > :04:14.run their dog on some deer. Here we are. Would we see deer here?
:04:15. > :04:17.It is all a long way from the traditional image of the man taking
:04:18. > :04:23.one for the pot, which former poacher Dave French grew up with.
:04:24. > :04:26.When I was a youngster, born and bred in the country, most people
:04:27. > :04:38.poached fish or rabbits, whatever, in their time. And it is all part of
:04:39. > :04:42.the upbringing in the countryside. Dave now runs a deer management
:04:43. > :04:45.group and he is worried that poachers are already having a big
:04:46. > :04:49.impact on numbers. Nowadays, I am afraid that with the
:04:50. > :04:53.climate as it is, it is down to money and they've got these big dogs
:04:54. > :04:59.which bring down the deer and the fawns are that much smaller and
:05:00. > :05:03.easier to hold onto by the dogs. I mean, you see groups of 20 fallow
:05:04. > :05:07.without fawns. Where did the fawns go?
:05:08. > :05:12.Fallow deer managers Nick Pitts and Mark Heyes are also concerned. They
:05:13. > :05:16.reckon that the poachers may have taken as many as 100 deer from their
:05:17. > :05:20.patch. We were a good 30 or 40% down on
:05:21. > :05:25.this time last year and the really sad thing is that most of the fawns
:05:26. > :05:31.seem to have gone. This year's fawns.
:05:32. > :05:38.Nick and Mark are also licensed to cull deer to control the population
:05:39. > :05:41.and maintain a healthy herd. Because of the culling, we have a
:05:42. > :05:46.programme right through the age spectrum. We don't take many fawns,
:05:47. > :05:55.but we have to take some. So that age group will be missing in two or
:05:56. > :06:00.three years time. It is a clean kill. Very different
:06:01. > :06:02.to the methods used by the poachers. They are basically hunting with
:06:03. > :06:07.dogs, which is illegal. But it is the barbaric way that it
:06:08. > :06:10.is done. It might take a field or two fields to pull the thing down.
:06:11. > :06:17.It is completely terrified, the dogs are ragging it and tearing it apart.
:06:18. > :06:22.It must be a terrible shock. And then they, in some way, stab it to
:06:23. > :06:28.death. It is now going to be bled. So you
:06:29. > :06:34.get the wishbone here and just push the knife in there.
:06:35. > :06:37.It is vital that the animal is gutted or gralloched to avoid
:06:38. > :06:41.contamination of the meat and check for any signs of disease.
:06:42. > :06:46.It is the hygiene side of it that really worries me. We are very
:06:47. > :06:51.careful if it is on the ground when we are gralloching it, it is kept
:06:52. > :06:55.clean. They don't worry about anything like that. They probably
:06:56. > :06:58.chuck it in the back of the car with the dogs.
:06:59. > :07:01.Always do a quick inspection of the deer's health, and it is in good
:07:02. > :07:05.nick. Nothing to think that there would be anything wrong with the
:07:06. > :07:09.animal. Nick and Mark are also skilled
:07:10. > :07:18.butchers. All of the venison that they produce is fully traceable.
:07:19. > :07:21.After we skin it, we open up the chest cavity and take anything out,
:07:22. > :07:25.weigh the animal, label it and give it a carcass tag that gives it a
:07:26. > :07:29.unique tag that we can trace it right through the system. It goes
:07:30. > :07:32.into our records and, in the long term in the restaurant, they have a
:07:33. > :07:37.number that they can trace that animal back to the field that it was
:07:38. > :07:41.shot in, the estate and who shot it. Part of our job as a trained hunter
:07:42. > :07:44.is to declare the animal fit for the food chain.
:07:45. > :07:50.And the next link in that the chain is just down the road. The
:07:51. > :07:53.restaurant of BBC Masterchef winner Anton Piotrowski, who values the
:07:54. > :08:00.quality of the venison Nick and Mark supply.
:08:01. > :08:05.If you run it down the back, you can put your knife against it like that.
:08:06. > :08:09.You won't see any meat left, as well. So it is good quality, it will
:08:10. > :08:16.be super tender and there is no harm in just tasting it in its raw state.
:08:17. > :08:22.He says that he is offered venison at the back door all the time, but
:08:23. > :08:26.would never even consider buying it. If a deer has come in from someone
:08:27. > :08:30.at the back of the lorry, then I can't take it, because I have no
:08:31. > :08:33.traceability of where that has come from. Where it has been shot well,
:08:34. > :08:37.looked after well, there is no tension in this as well. If it was
:08:38. > :08:42.torn apart, you would not be seeing this. It would be like leather. At
:08:43. > :08:48.the end of the day, I have to worry about the customers and the quality.
:08:49. > :08:53.Another raid, another suspected poacher is arrested and more dogs
:08:54. > :08:59.are seized. Although nobody here has yet been convicted of any crime, the
:09:00. > :09:03.crackdown continues. They are doing these vicious and
:09:04. > :09:07.barbaric acts of cruelty, we are there. The police are aware and they
:09:08. > :09:12.will exert to mount this type of operation and we will be there to
:09:13. > :09:15.make sure that they stop this. Today is a demonstration that we are
:09:16. > :09:17.very active in tackling organised rural crime.
:09:18. > :09:21.But the authorities are increasingly frustrated that the punishment often
:09:22. > :09:27.no longer seems to fit the level of crime that they are seeing.
:09:28. > :09:30.Anyone convicted under the original 1828 poaching by night law could
:09:31. > :09:38.have been transported overseas for seven years, or faced two years hard
:09:39. > :09:41.labour. But the law has been amended in recent years and a maximum
:09:42. > :09:46.sentence magistrates can impose now is six months in prison. Some
:09:47. > :09:50.believe that that is nowhere near enough.
:09:51. > :09:54.It certainly is a gross miscarriage of justice that some of these guys
:09:55. > :09:57.can get the same as somebody who has done much less of a crime. The
:09:58. > :10:01.maximum of six months in prison is not enough for some of the horrific
:10:02. > :10:03.crimes that have been committed by these people.
:10:04. > :10:08.And custodial sentences are relatively rare. Often the best that
:10:09. > :10:12.the police and the RSPCA can hope for is a hefty fine and a lifetime
:10:13. > :10:13.ban from keeping dogs, who frequently themselves victims of the
:10:14. > :10:28.cruelty of poaching. It's been the wettest start to a
:10:29. > :10:31.year on record, bringing chaos to many parts of the South West and
:10:32. > :10:38.beyond. But, could one answer to the problem of flooding be found
:10:39. > :10:41.overseas? Here is our reporter. On the Somerset Levels, 65 square
:10:42. > :10:49.kilometres of farmland, homes and businesses are flooded. Interrupting
:10:50. > :10:51.lives and causing misery. Four weeks ago, we filmed James Winslade, and
:10:52. > :10:59.livestock farmer near Moorland, struggling on despite most of his
:11:00. > :11:05.land being underwater. My land is out over there. So most
:11:06. > :11:09.of the farm is flooded and there is no compensation, no insurance for
:11:10. > :11:14.it. Now, far from receding, the water has continued to rise across
:11:15. > :11:27.the Levels. Communities are in chaos, evacuating their homes as
:11:28. > :11:31.life here becomes impossible. You have read about it, what you think
:11:32. > :11:34.about it now you have seen it? When you see it, you fully
:11:35. > :11:37.appreciate it, which you don't when you see pictures on the TV or read
:11:38. > :11:40.about it. Nigel Wright is an expert on flood
:11:41. > :11:43.defences. I've invited him to the Levels to get his view on what the
:11:44. > :11:47.options are here. We've had record`breaking rainfall
:11:48. > :11:51.for the last couple of months, so it landed here, the land is very flat,
:11:52. > :11:54.so it just spreads out and, at the same time, the river is taking all
:11:55. > :11:59.the water upstream, and you just can't pump it quick enough to get
:12:00. > :12:02.rid of it. What do you make of the crop of solutions being suggested
:12:03. > :12:07.here? The main one being dredging. There are very whole range of things
:12:08. > :12:10.that you have to do to reduce the risk of flooding. The one that is
:12:11. > :12:14.being talked about is dredging, and dredging will increase the capacity
:12:15. > :12:17.of the channel, but you have to do it every year. In recent weeks,
:12:18. > :12:19.dredging has become such a hot topic that even the Prime Minister has
:12:20. > :12:23.waded in. Whatever is required, whether it is
:12:24. > :12:27.dredging work on the rivers, this government will help those families
:12:28. > :12:30.and get that issue sorted. Other solutions, such as upgrading
:12:31. > :12:34.the pumps and building a tidal barrage, have also been suggested.
:12:35. > :12:38.But, would any of that have stopped this flood?
:12:39. > :12:41.I don't think you could have stopped this flood from happening. You could
:12:42. > :12:45.have mitigated it, to some extent, but we have had so much rainfall.
:12:46. > :12:48.This thing will happen when you have this sort of rain.
:12:49. > :12:52.Part of the problem on the Levels is that much of the land is lower than
:12:53. > :12:58.the rivers passing through it, so what is the answer?
:12:59. > :13:04.To find out, I have come to Holland, which has a very similar landscape.
:13:05. > :13:08.Here, they have spent the last 1000 years learning how to hold back the
:13:09. > :13:15.water, using huge river wards or dykes. In fact, it was Dutch
:13:16. > :13:18.engineers who help to drain the Somerset Levels 350 years ago and
:13:19. > :13:24.we've been using the same system ever since.
:13:25. > :13:26.My first stop is Delft University, where leading flood expert Bas
:13:27. > :13:29.Jonkman is testing the latest measures for emergency flood
:13:30. > :13:38.protection, things that could really help on the Levels right now.
:13:39. > :13:40.So what is going to happen here next?
:13:41. > :13:44.What will happen is a big base will open the gates. Water will start to
:13:45. > :13:47.flow then and we will put the hydraulic loads on those measures.
:13:48. > :13:51.Hopefully those will stop the floods and keep that side dry.
:13:52. > :13:55.Maybe we should put ourselves the other side of the barrier. I think
:13:56. > :14:02.that is a good idea. It is really holding, isn't it?
:14:03. > :14:06.Even if clever technology like this can help in the short term, I want
:14:07. > :14:10.to know whether the old Dutch system of pumps and drains used on the
:14:11. > :14:13.Levels is really the way forward. It has had two years of extremely
:14:14. > :14:17.serious floods, they need some help. These systems can fail and you also
:14:18. > :14:21.need to manage and maintain the systems well and also adapt them to
:14:22. > :14:29.changes, changing rainfall patterns. You are never finished.
:14:30. > :14:32.In 1995, unusually heavy rains overran the Dutch flood defences,
:14:33. > :14:39.forcing the evacuation of 250,000 people, with millions more homes
:14:40. > :14:46.under threat. What followed was a rethink of the whole philosophy for
:14:47. > :14:50.flood protection. I've, come to south of Delft, where the dyke
:14:51. > :15:01.protecting this land is about to be lowered, therefore increasing the
:15:02. > :15:06.flood risk here. What you are talking about seems incredibly
:15:07. > :15:18.bonkers. To start with, we still have our defence system of Dykes and
:15:19. > :15:22.dredging. We will stay on do that. At the same time we find new
:15:23. > :15:26.solutions for flood relief. People are finding a way to live with
:15:27. > :15:29.nature and live together with the river. What is happening here
:15:30. > :15:32.involves moving the dyke hundreds of metres back from the river. It is
:15:33. > :15:35.part of a ?1.8 billion project called room for the river taking
:15:36. > :15:39.place at 34 locations across Holland. Now when the river reaches
:15:40. > :15:42.critical levels it has a new flood plain to flood onto but this has
:15:43. > :15:53.meant evicting 200 homeowners and farmers. That was not initially
:15:54. > :15:56.popular. This man was one of the farmers told that the dyke
:15:57. > :16:03.protecting his farm would be removed. He did not take it well.
:16:04. > :16:06.What did you think when you first heard that the government was
:16:07. > :16:17.turning your land into a flood plane? `` plain. TRANSLATION: We
:16:18. > :16:26.were shown a map which had this field as the flood plain. We decided
:16:27. > :16:30.that we would get together as farmers to discuss what we were
:16:31. > :16:35.going to do and we thought we could oppose this plan or we could find a
:16:36. > :16:43.way to work together with the government for our own interest. He
:16:44. > :16:46.and the other farmers persuaded the government to let them stay on their
:16:47. > :16:58.land and to build their new farm buildings on six metre high minds.
:16:59. > :17:02.`` mounds. Now, even if their land is flooded, the house and farm
:17:03. > :17:06.buildings remain dry. Your land will eventually flood, how do you feel
:17:07. > :17:19.about it? Does it worry you? The cows will be safe. The children and
:17:20. > :17:35.my self have a life so we are safe. So let the watercome. Let the
:17:36. > :17:39.watercome? Yes. So he is convinced but back on the levels I want to
:17:40. > :17:44.know if room for the river or something like it is the answer. I
:17:45. > :17:48.have just been to Holland and had a look at some of the things they are
:17:49. > :17:52.doing there, do you think that good work here? They could apply here but
:17:53. > :17:55.they have to be adapted to the local context and in discussion with the
:17:56. > :17:59.local people. So, it is not an instant fix? No, but it is certainly
:18:00. > :18:02.worth These systems can feel and you also need to manage and maintain
:18:03. > :18:12.these systems well and also attempt the change in rainfall patterns.
:18:13. > :18:20.Back with James and despite his determination, the floodwater has
:18:21. > :18:23.one. `` won. I am catching up with him at the auction centre where
:18:24. > :18:32.nearly 100 of his cattle are being sold. How have the last few weeks
:18:33. > :18:37.been for you? It has been a roller`coaster. We had to get the
:18:38. > :18:45.animals out when the water came up because they were going to drown.
:18:46. > :18:50.What do you think of the system abroad, could that work? You could
:18:51. > :18:57.look at it, it is a blank canvas really. What about having all of
:18:58. > :19:06.your farm buildings, your silage and everything on a mind? It is not only
:19:07. > :19:14.me, it do you raise them all down and think he'd be back? I wish I was
:19:15. > :19:19.on an island now. The Prime Minister has been in touch with the Dutch
:19:20. > :19:23.government to ask them for help but with more areas under threat across
:19:24. > :19:26.the country, whatever they decide will come too late this time for
:19:27. > :19:37.James and the rest of the communities rerun the levels. ``
:19:38. > :19:42.here on the levels. Before this dramatic flooding our own reporter
:19:43. > :19:48.visited the Somerset nature reserve that relies on seasonal flooding for
:19:49. > :19:54.its very existence. Happily, it is a place where man can control water
:19:55. > :20:00.levels for the benefit of some very rare wildlife. This nature reserve
:20:01. > :20:07.on the Somerset levels is the wet life even. At the moment, the
:20:08. > :20:14.emphasis is on the word wet. Just in the shadow of last three tour it is
:20:15. > :20:18.home to hundreds of waders and wildfowl. Some of them are
:20:19. > :20:25.threatened. This was once intensively managed farmland, for
:20:26. > :20:33.many years it was drained and ploughed. Now the fields are allowed
:20:34. > :20:41.to flood. It is often just in time for the breeding season. All you
:20:42. > :20:46.need is a couple of minutes in the hide or in one of the blinds at the
:20:47. > :20:52.water 's edge to see how special and magical best place can be. I do not
:20:53. > :20:58.think there is any where else in the south`west you can see this number
:20:59. > :21:01.of birds so close. The birds are really utilising all the different
:21:02. > :21:08.types of habitat and the different food sources. This bird upended
:21:09. > :21:15.itself in the search for every last bit of nutrient. The Drake is
:21:16. > :21:27.dabbling. It's beak is vibrating across the surfaces to filter out
:21:28. > :21:31.small plants and animals. These docs are wintering on the levels as well
:21:32. > :21:39.and it is using its large unmistakable bill to sift through
:21:40. > :21:45.the water, this species is under threat so places like this are
:21:46. > :21:50.vital. Open stretches of water like this are obviously very important as
:21:51. > :21:54.the feeding place but they also provide some security from
:21:55. > :22:00.ground`based predators. While I feared they county care of their
:22:01. > :22:03.plumage which is also important. These ducks are keeping their
:22:04. > :22:08.feathers in tiptop condition and when you get close you can get a
:22:09. > :22:16.really good view of the wormlike patters on them. Their distinctive
:22:17. > :22:21.call rings out throughout the day. Lapwing abound, look at this
:22:22. > :22:30.beautiful bird with the iridescent bottle green sheen. Once a common
:22:31. > :22:33.West Country side, they are now a registered bird under severe
:22:34. > :22:39.conservation threat with leading numbers in massive decline. The
:22:40. > :22:44.dramatic floods this year and last on the levels have had a big effect
:22:45. > :22:51.sadly on farms south of year but also some of the breeding birds.
:22:52. > :22:55.This flooding is a double`edged sword. At the moment it is good, it
:22:56. > :23:00.is good for them and they are enjoying it but if it continues into
:23:01. > :23:14.the spring it limits the number of places the birds can live and the
:23:15. > :23:21.animals they feed on food drown. There is another problem, this
:23:22. > :23:26.planned, Rush, too much of it favours the approaching predators
:23:27. > :23:32.like foxes. They have worked out about 10% cover is just right. If
:23:33. > :23:37.you look at the number of birds around you might think all is well
:23:38. > :23:41.here but the latest figures suggest is birds are having a tough time.
:23:42. > :24:02.Reading numbers were down last year on the site. `` breeding numbers. It
:24:03. > :24:07.is all about water management year. On one side of the lake the trust
:24:08. > :24:15.have got and recreated a traditional habitat. There used to be a lot more
:24:16. > :24:18.of this open water ditch and weed bed but now it is more rare because
:24:19. > :24:24.over the centuries these were drained. We literally had to drain
:24:25. > :24:30.all the water out of the site, remove the a lot of the vegetation,
:24:31. > :24:36.we had to rebuild and destabilise the whole system. The banks were
:24:37. > :24:41.gone, they were degraded, making and crumbling. We have had to secure
:24:42. > :24:46.this. While we had to go to such extreme lengths we also built
:24:47. > :24:54.islands, opened up channels, we level the land to a variety of
:24:55. > :25:00.heights to suit a watch of species. Over 12 months you can see how well
:25:01. > :25:08.this is recovering. We have had Marsh Harriers, great white egrets,
:25:09. > :25:14.a huge array of duck species. It is just bursting into a life so quickly
:25:15. > :25:19.after we are finished. And it is not just about the birds. These read
:25:20. > :25:28.heads are covered in gossamer threads spun by spiders. The ride up
:25:29. > :25:39.drafts on them which allows them to travel vast distances, even along
:25:40. > :25:46.continents. This spider crawls down and climbs up repeatedly on a piece
:25:47. > :25:49.of web ready for the off. All of these invertebrates are great news
:25:50. > :25:55.for this stone chat and it is an luck with the caterpillar in its
:25:56. > :26:08.beak. A great find for this time of year. The ditches on the fen are
:26:09. > :26:16.already filling up with with June, these are roosting and having a
:26:17. > :26:23.great splash around. Then he Marsh Harrier appears, a beautiful sleek
:26:24. > :26:27.Keller on the prowl for small birds. The few Lapwing around have got a
:26:28. > :26:39.way of dealing with this unwelcome intruder, the mob it.
:26:40. > :26:47.But it is a different type of Lapwing behaviour that makes up the
:26:48. > :26:53.climax to my visit. I am off back to the mainland. Now this is a great
:26:54. > :26:59.spot to witness what has become a little bit of a local phenomenon.
:27:00. > :27:07.You can witness it over and over again all day long. Absolutely
:27:08. > :27:12.breathtaking. Every so often a vast flock of Lapwing take to the skies.
:27:13. > :27:20.Like the Starling that circle over the moors, the form ever`changing
:27:21. > :27:25.shapes in the sky. This could be a way of avoiding or confusing
:27:26. > :27:30.predators or it may just be a thing they do together as a species for
:27:31. > :27:43.social cohesion. Whatever the reason, it is hip knotting. ``
:27:44. > :27:48.hypnotic. In essence, what you have got here is a flooded field and it
:27:49. > :27:52.is easy given the amount of rain and flooding we have had over this
:27:53. > :27:56.winter to take this sort of scene for granted but several centuries
:27:57. > :28:02.ago this hall of the Somerset levels would have been underwater for the
:28:03. > :28:07.role of the winter period now thanks to the activities of human beings
:28:08. > :28:11.and the draining of the landscape, things like this are incredibly
:28:12. > :28:19.rare. That is bad news for many of the birds we having joined and
:28:20. > :28:26.filmed here. `` enjoyed. Without places like this red listed birds
:28:27. > :28:31.like the Marsh Harrier and Lapwing will face a losing battle against a
:28:32. > :28:38.much stronger enemy, the all`powerful hand of man. That is
:28:39. > :29:06.all from the programme this week, we are back next Monday. See you then.
:29:07. > :29:10.Hello, I'm Sam Naz with your 90 second update.
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