A sad wildlife situation

More examples of Mans selfeshness to planet earth
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/22609000

I've noticed the reduction in Hedgepigs.
Twenty years ago I could sit in the garden on any night during the summer months and easily see two snuffling around. Now I'm lucky to see a single pig more often than every other month.

Interestingly, when we've had pigs and frogs living in and around the garden, we've had no snails or slugs.
When slugs first appear some people are too quick to put down pellets, these kill the pigs and the frogs along with slug eating birds and therefore reduce the number of natural predators. This increases the number of slugs and makes the situation worse, but will the "people" stop putting down the pellets? NO.

A better idea would be, stop planting the plants that encourage these pests. Concrete only encourages more concrete.

Quote: Voltman wrote in post #2

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I've noticed the reduction in Hedgepigs.
Twenty years ago I could sit in the garden on any night during the summer months and easily see two snuffling around. Now I'm lucky to see a single pig more often than every other month.

Interestingly, when we've had pigs and frogs living in and around the garden, we've had no snails or slugs.
When slugs first appear some people are too quick to put down pellets, these kill the pigs and the frogs along with slug eating birds and therefore reduce the number of natural predators. This increases the number of slugs and makes the situation worse, but will the "people" stop putting down the pellets? NO.

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i was moving my greenhouse a couple of weeks ago and took out of the bottom tray a roll of garden fleece and it seemed very heavy, i dropped it and then looked inside there was a hedgehog grunting and grumbling at me, so i put him back inside the fleece and left some food out for him. i really must have upset him because he not been back. one side of my garden is like a jungle, bushes, ground cover so much wild life, my neighbours hate it because the one side has decking and the other stones.
i am sure hog must be up the top of the garden under the bushes.

steph

Sounds a bit like my garden !