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Wildlife crimes are not acceptable

By Tara Marjoram

The NWCU (National Wildlife Crime Unit) since operation 3 years ago, have reduced their Wildlife Crime staff from 14 to 9 due to lack of funding and have made only 51 convictions in 2008-2009 which is only 3.3% of the cases they dealt with, reported the Sunday national newspapers. Wildlife crime is on the... »

How many turtle doves will be sung this Christmas?

By Tara Marjoram

In 1970 there may have been two Turtle Doves and a Partridge in a pear tree in the popular Christmas song but after Defra (Department of Environment Food and Rural Affairs) released the statistics on the wild bird population for 2008, the famous song should perhaps be sung as 0.6 turtle doves. “Bird populations... »

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