It may say as much about the status of politicians as it does about that of birds, but one of the more striking demographic statistics to emerge from the United Kingdom is this: There are currently more members of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds than there are members of all British political parties combined.
Established in 1891 to lobby against the grebe-feather trade, membership currently stands at more than 1 million people, making the RSPB the largest wildlife conservation organization in Europe.
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