Your local group

The Trust's local groups do excellent work and arrange all sorts of activities and events in their areas, as the following snippets will show. They would love to meet you, so please call one of the contacts on page 2 or check out the diary of events.

Carrick
Following our most recent talks held around Carrick, one issue kept resurfacing time and time again. This is that all of us, and the Trust in particular, must push harder for more effective wildlife legislation to give real protection to threatened species and habitats. Even when a law is passed, we must ensure that it is enforced properly by pressing for meaningful convictions of those who break wildlife law.

As Vie Simpson - the wildlife pathologist who opened the UK's first Wildlife Veterinary Investigation Centre at Chacewater last year -commented during his talk at St Agnes, back in 1974 he proved beyond doubt that lead weights on fishing lines were the main cause of swans being killed in our rivers but it took the Government another 12 years to introduce a law outlawing the use of lead weights!