The Wildlife Trusts! Friends of our environment, or incubating a serious problem?

The pond in question-----

Picture by Paul Hilton

That's after my book was published Paul where I said they should be ashamed of themselves [The Wildlife Trust that is] for allowing it to be used as a dumping ground for shopping trolleys, scaffold boards, beer cans, butter dishes, wheelbarrows, car seats, concrete, timber, steel wire, bicycle frames, bundles of free newspapers etc.

Then there is the question of the toxic Red and White algae that forms during the hot summer months, the rotting weed in the pond that robs every ounce of oxygen from the water, the millions of mosquito's, horse flies etc plus the fact that despite several emails to the Oxford Mail (local paper) and the BBC News, warning them of the impending serious health problems that West Nile Virus could cause, still NOBODY IS LISTENING! There are no fish in the lake and the Wildlife Trust refuse to re-stock it, as a result it's dead!!

Then there is the potential for Lyme disease.........shall I carry on?

Oh, and then there's the 'responsible dog owners' who hang the dog 'doo' on the hedge in little bags for all to see (that is if it's not already on the pathway). I blame the Wildlife Trust because there are no bins to deposit same!

In the picture above you can see the weed that I refer to, I am totally fed up with trying to warn the public of the danger.

Having seen it in person, Ron, I agree that a day's worth of weed harvester time wouldn't go amiss in improving the place, especially for the fish!!

Ruth, even the Wildlife Trust admit that there are no fish in the lake and further they do not intend restocking it because the fish eat the flies!! Yes, you did read it correctly, fish would eat the flies. Hmmmn...isn't that what fish do?

It's one of the reasons that the weed ferments and the place ends up stinking!

Why doesn't anybody want to know? Am I wrong about this potential threat.....I don't think so. I have written to the Oxford Mail (and others) many times and they haven't even acknowledged my mail, they should be ashamed of themselves!!

The Oxford Mail is the local paper supposedly looking after and reporting on local issue's and stories. Ha, that's a joke, and whilst writing you [the Oxford Mail Sales staff] can stop your telesales department from telephoning me, trying to encourage me to take the Oxford Mail on a regular basis. I wouldn't even buy it to tear it into 6 x 5 sheets!