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Jon -

Saw your appearance on Countryfile on Sunday primetime TV - good one!

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Snakes in mysterious global decline...

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8727863.stm

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Liz Heard Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 10 Jun 2010 at 7:54pm
i havent read all 10 pages of this post so this may have come up already. if so, apologies for laziness.

on page 41 of june BBC WILDLIFE they report that newts are attracted to torchlight.

what species is that then Dom?
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Liz Heard Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 01 Jul 2010 at 2:58pm
hi gemma. ive spotted a recent newpaper article that fits your original posts description should you wish to seek permission to show it. im sure members would be interested (and horrified) to read it. its not the developer killing GCNs this time. though thats certainly not a welcome change obviously.
i cant fathom the defendants thinking at all.

the headline reads;

LAND ROW MAN KILLS NEWTS WITH HAMMER.

by chris campbell
chris.campbell@glosmedia.co.uk

page 2 of THE CITIZEN (GLOS). wed june 30 2010

on the back page of the issue it says;

"for permission to copy cuttings contact the NLA, 7 church road, tunbridge wells. TN1 1NL. tel 01892 525273.
email copy@nla.co.uk

hope this helps.

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote will Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 01 Jul 2010 at 3:24pm

is this the same guy that was in the National papers yesterday, who killed 3 GCN dliberately and sent them in the post to Natural England in protest at the loss of newt habitat adjacent to his land ?  apparently he is retired, and has a pond in his garden with 500 GCN according to the article.  I think he got a slapped wrist.  Whilst we might sympathise with his feelings about the development, it seems like a sledgehammer to crack a newt, to me (sorry...)

 

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THE CITIZEN is published by Gloucestershire Media, 6-8 The Oxebode, Gloucester. GL1 1RZ.
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yes thats it. Berkelely, GLOS.
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News story about a guy who has been prosecuted for bumping off cresties and sending them to Natural England. Apparently he has been doing so in protest over their failure to pursue an adjacent landowner who has been building on GCN habitat.

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http://www.gazetteseries.co.uk/news/8244976.Pensioner_hammer ed_newts_to_death_and_sent_them_to_Natural_England__court_to ld/

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Liz Heard Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 26 Jul 2010 at 10:15pm
hi folks,

the chap referred to here by myself, will and matt who killed 4 adult GCN with a hammer and mailed corpses to EN as his idea of a good peaceful protest, has been in my local paper again.

this time he has complained to police about the strimming/mowing of terrestrial TC habitat adjacent to his breeding pool.

Mr Butchers complaint sparked an investigation by police and a subsequent "multi-agency meeting involving police and an amphibian expert from Natural England - which concluded that strimming was not harming the newts."

a police spokesman (hopefully not the Wildlife Liason Officer since newts are amphibians NOT reptiles) reported "a multi-agency meeting has since been held in the area alongside an amphibian expert from Natural England and it was determined that the strimming being undertaken was of no harm to the reptiles."

is that true then? admittedly, ive never used a strimmer and i wouldnt but i know loads of people who have accidentally killed slow-worms using one. newts arent fast movers and electric tools dont give animals much time to get away. also, removal of vegetation reduces insect prey habitat/daytime refugia options and makes newts more visible to their enemies surely?

perhaps they were just really really careful then.

no details of how the strimming was carried out or the extent of it were given.

its on page 8 of THE CITIZEN dated monday july 26.
the headline is;

STRIMMING KILLING NEWTS CLAIMS OAP.

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