A Box O’ Frogs…...The Dinosaurs of Skye…..From ‘Wild Justice’…..
by Bernie Bell - 07:52 on 09 April 2025
A Box O’ Frogs….
Our neighbours were clearing their veg patch in preparation for this year’s planting when they found two pairs of frogs, mating! They put them in a plastic tub with some water and brought them to us.
We gently released them into our pond.
A couple of days later we noticed a big new clump of spawn As most of the spawn in our pond has now hatched or is very near to doing so, we think this must be from the ‘imported’ frogs - all adding to the life of the pond……
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The Dinosaurs of Skye….
We had a holiday booked in Skye for late April 2020.
March 2020 Covid raised its ugly head. So, no holiday that year - or since for that matter as health issues don’t allow travel. So – we’re not likely to ever see the dinosaurs, but can look at pictures and imagine….
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From ‘Wild Justice’…..
“Good morning!
In this newsletter: our petition - click here - to ban driven grouse shooting has passed 88,000 signatures. We have until 22 May to secure the remaining 12,000 signatures to trigger a Westminster Hall debate. Also in this newsletter; the Private Eye story and a question of burning.
Private Eye: last week we revealed that Private Eye had published one of three adverts we had placed with them and then decided not to publish the other two. We don't know why because Private Eye won't tell us, but they have published three letters slagging us off. We're pleased that the issue of gamebird releases is getting more and more publicity through only paying for one advert!
We've written a pithy blog post in response to those three letters - click here.
Many Wild Justice supporters are now disgruntled or even former readers of Private Eye as a result of Lord Gnome's high-handed behaviour. And many of you tell us that you are writing letters to Private Eye - here are contact details.
Burning questions: Defra, last week, proposed measures to strengthen regulations on burning of vegetation on peatlands - the vast majority of it as management for grouse shooting. This is an area where Wild Justice, as far back as July 2021 - click here - sought to strengthen the regulations through a legal challenge. Some of what we called for has now come about - click here - and we have been active behind the scenes since that challenge.
Of course, if driven grouse shooting were banned then the incentives for environmentally damaging burning would disappear...
Our petition on banning driven grouse shooting: there are many reasons to clamp down on driven grouse shooting from reducing greenhouse gas emissions to reducing flood risk and from reducing the legal and illegal killing of wildlife to reducing air pollution (click here for more details).
Our blog lists the constituencies from which most signatures have come - click here. Top of the list is the marvellous Derbyshire Dales with 537 signatures but it's the total that counts. Your signature is just as valuable as anyone else's from anywhere else. We know that many subscribers share these newsletters - please consider sharing this one with friends and asking them to help us get to the 100,000 signatures. Thank you!
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Thank you.
Wild Justice (Directors: Mark Avery, Chris Packham and Ruth Tingay).
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