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Wildlife In The Media; A Fox cub covered in petrol and mud is found in a skip
Topic Started: Aug 13 2008, 09:39 AM (10,453 Views)
feedyourhedgehog
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Great news Dave with regards to the Sparrows Dave :cool:

Having read about the otters the mind boggles.....it's a bit like the Buzzards and the Grouse Moors isn't it :thinking:

Who wants to live in in a world where everything is farmed and manufactured :no:
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Danny's Nature
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I have to say I got quite annoyed when I read that article about the Otters.
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mick2
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me too, its crazy the lengths the gov will go to so landowners can make money. otters, buzzards etc have just as much right to exist, more i say, as there pheasant chicks and trout. grrrr
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acey
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Makes me spit when I read about killing Hen Harriers etc on Grouse Moors,still think the Landowners should be prosecuted along with the gamekeepers !
Re Otters,back in April I took a few pics of an Otter in a river at Sevenoaks -Kent !
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Alan
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Said it before and I will repeat,goverments jump on green issues save the otters ,buzzards,wildcats, so they can get votes untill one of there rich sponsors eg,landowners starts to moan they then think stuff the people who voted for us cause we said we would save the whatever time to kill some of them to keep them happy until next election comes around then it"s vote for us the countryside will be safe in our hands b------s.Makes me sick,how long before Red Kites become a target now they are doing so well,It"s the same old story over and over again.
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Danny's Nature
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Yeah I've been worrying about the Red Kites. It just shows that nothing is safe.
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Danny's Nature
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Scotland’s seabirds in further decline
http://www.wildlifeextra.com/go/news/scotland-seabirds013.html

Exotic migrant butterflies colonise the UK
http://www.wildlifeextra.com/go/news/migrant-butterflies.html

Huge step forward in battle against bovine TB in Sussex whilst Somerset badger cull extended
http://www.wildlifeextra.com/go/news/sussex-badger.html

Mixed news for farmland birds in Scotland
http://www.wildlifeextra.com/go/news/scotland-birds.html
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Danny's Nature
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Scotland's red kites thriving again after 10 years of effort
http://www.wildlifeextra.com/go/news/scotland-kite-red013.html

UK farmland bird numbers are still declining
http://www.wildlifeextra.com/go/news/decline-in-farmland-birds.html

Gloucestershire badger cull falls short of target
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-24561955
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Davebutterflyman
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Fantastic news regarding the Red Kite population in Scotland, Danny.
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Davebutterflyman
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Regarding the Long-tailed Blue butterflies...there have been over 50 individuals reported which breaks the record, of 38, set in 1945.
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Amethyst
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I am just experimenting with twitter and found this through a Surrey Wildlife Trust Tweet.

Ships to be banned from discharging PIB at sea :yay:

http://www.wildlifetrusts.org/news/2013/10/21/seabird-death-chemical-be-banned

I'm not sure how they police this but it sounds like a step in the right direction to me :cool:
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JennyWren
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:yay: I bet they hoped the public would just leave well alone ........ Well we didn't and neither did those dedicated scientists who discovered the exact one ......... see the MW of the ones washed up down here

1. All PIB products greater than 224 molecular weight (MW) and all new highly reactive PIB products will now become a separate Category X set of products under Annex II MARPOL, banning their discharge at sea and requiring full prewash, with all residues removed to shore. PIBs identified in Cornwall, Devon and Dorset were all over 1000MW, and PIB's chemical profile indicates that viscosity remains low up to 400-600MW.

2. PIBs lower than 224MW remain at Category Y under Annex II of MARPOL.

I don't understand the makeup of this stuff but i can see the effect :notfair: of anything dumped at sea

Thanks for that link Ame Posted Image

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I shall look out for those long tailed blues next year Dave .... from an image i found , you can just see a little 'tail'Posted Image
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Davebutterflyman
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That is wonderful news Ame....about time as well. Lets hope that this will discourage dumping at sea and if not, any culprits caught doing so need to be treated very harshly indeed.

That is a good tip for looking for this butterfly Jen, also it has a large spot at the base of the hindwing which is quite conspicuous when feeding.
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Davebutterflyman
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The decline in farmland birds doesn't come as any surprise unfortunately. The problem is that populations have suffered so much that any increase of numbers in any one species is so small, and declines so regular, gives little chance for birds to recover to levels where they may be taken off the various lists of concern. A very worrying trend and if something drastic isn't done and soon, we will be looking at certain species becoming extinct as breeding birds in the UK.
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I went to Kent to see my Mum today, and she was telling me how she used to have to fill her bird feeders twice a day, but that she hadn't had to refill them for over three weeks, and that there had been something on the local news about some lowlife who was trapping small birds locally and selling them - what for she didn't remember. :(

Has anybody on here heard anything about this?
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Oct 27 2013, 08:05 PM
I went to Kent to see my Mum today, and she was telling me how she used to have to fill her bird feeders twice a day, but that she hadn't had to refill them for over three weeks, and that there had been something on the local news about some lowlife who was trapping small birds locally and selling them - what for she didn't remember. :(

Has anybody on here heard anything about this?
that's dreadful Niggit ........... we usually think that if the feeders haven't been touched much it's because there's a lot of berries around ... a lot of wild food available . But this sounds shocking :panic:

I heard someone say the sparrows numbers hadn't declined in a specific place ... they all just moved to another Posted Image
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I have not heard about that Sarah but if that is the case, it is an utterly despicable act and words fail me.
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Danny's Nature
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That's very sad, I wonder how much of that is going on in this country? :notfair: :sad: :(
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Danny's Nature
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Gloucestershire badger cull extended by 8 weeks – Risks spreading bTB
http://www.wildlifeextra.com/go/news/gloucestershire-badgers013.html

Britain’s rarest freshwater fish reappears in Bassenthwaite Lake after 10 year absence
http://www.wildlifeextra.com/go/news/vendace-bassenthwaite.html

Otter killed in illegal eel trap on Anglesey
http://www.wildlifeextra.com/go/news/otter-trap.html

Snared and beaten badger found on footpath in Scotland
http://www.wildlifeextra.com/go/news/snared-badger.html

Appeal launched to buy vital piece of Northern Ireland habitat
http://www.wildlifeextra.com/go/news/faughan-appeal.html

Autumn 2013 to be late, very colourful and productive
http://www.wildlifeextra.com/go/news/autumn-2013.html

Breeding hope for wildcat kittens
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-24613855
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raptorwatcher
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Just read this , great news for snow leopards:)
http://wwf.panda.org/wwf_news/press_releases/?211670/Asian-countries-make-historic-pledge-to-save--the-ghost-of-the-mountain
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