Mink are vicious things. Some people from the animal management course in the next building to the forestry course our son was on at college did work experience at a wildlife park where they had mink in a secure house. The house had two parts so the mink could be isolated in one part while the other was cleaned. They were warned to always make sure all the mink were isolated before opening as they would bite badly as soon as look at you. Letting mink out was an ecological disaster, and shows what damage well meaning but uninformed idiots can do.
if they are improving matters why is the wye declining?
the motives of wwf quietly dropping that report and tesco sponsoring "cute" projects could be open to several interpretations, some less than charitable options are on the list
in other river news, the Test is almost entirely degraded, including some serious one off incidents as well as the SW systemic sewage discharges which include the Test but cover many rivers and beaches
considering my advice to a random group of scouting canoeists exiting the local river was"time for tea, buns and broad spectrum antibiotics"
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our local citizen scientists have found coliforms and worse in the river and in the flood mud, which is extensive from the river and also from becks, drains etc, neither a stroll with the mutt(see local vet anecdotes etc) nor water based activities are biologically "safe"
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