If You Care About Our Birds And Wildlife Please Sign This Petition.

[ladybirder]

Make 'netting' hedgerows to prevent birds from nesting a criminal offence.
They need all the help we can give them given the awful decline in the number of birds over the years. Thank you.

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/244233

[gness]

Signed and thank you for alerting more people to this, LB....x

[ladybirder]

Thank you, I'm trying guess, I'm trying. I had hoped for more than one though:-(

[sherrardk]

I signed this in the week :)

[Mamyalynne]

Signed.

[Baldric]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-47627749

[wolf63]

I have now signed it.

[Baldric]

PS and I signed.

[pixie374]

Signed. Thanks, lb. What is wrong with people?

[Togo]

Signed Lady...….made me furious when I read it last week. Bstards.

[ladybirder]

Bless you all for signing, thank you, that's better. We need to get to 100k so if you can ask your friends and family to sign as well that'll be good.
Baldric thanks for the link (and signature), that is where I first read it. Makes my blood boil as well. Just as well I haven't actually seen any or I'd probably be in trouble for tearing them down.

[pixie374]

We had a dovecote at work once, which had wire put over it, as they wanted to take it down. There were actually babies inside it at the time and I literally did tear the wire off. Nobody ever told me off for it either.

[ladybirder]

With babies inside it! That's terrible. Good for you Pixie. Carry on the good work.

[Old_Geezer]

Just wish we could stop councils chopping down mature trees too. Don't believe they're all dangerously diseased.

[pixie374]

I won't disrupt your thread, sorry. The good news is, that even though that residential home was eventually pulled down and converted into flats, I had a client there years later... and they still had the dovecote in the grounds :-). But seriously, the parents couldn't get in and the babies couldn't get out... it was disgusting.

[ladybirder]

No problem Pixie. Unfortunately yours won't be the first or the last such incident. Heartbreaking.

[Gill1941]

Signed.

[ladybirder]

I agree OG, just an excuse to get rid. Trees are so precious in my view anyway.

[ladybirder]

Thank you Gill, 75,480 now. Great. Keep 'em coming please.

[jennyjoan]

I have signed too. Life as a bird is what it's meant to be

"Free as a bird".

[rowanwitch]

Signed.