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YOUR FEEDBACK

To look at the forest and wood.
ONLINE PHOTO CONTEST O Enter our monthly online Oh, if only it could get quickly
photographic contest at
THEME: SPRING FLOWERS www.discoverwildlife.com/ down to the sea.
your-photos/photo-contest Slimy, dirty, choked and dead,
Into a city the river has been fed.
Why does man kill it someone
1 2 tell me,
This beautiful thing trying to get
to the sea.

Foaming, spraying, waves a
playing, at last to reach the sea.
But, I wonder how long before
man comes along and destroys
even this,
The sea.
Deborah Dunnett, via email

Profound prose
I was reduced to tears while
3 reading Chris Packham’s final
column (Notes from an English
Wood, April 2018). I had a lump
in my throat and a tear in my eye.
It was some of the most heartfelt
writing I have read in a long time.
Duncan Dine, via Twitter message
Photograph, don’t kill
1 BOGBEAN, David Anderson, Somerset
2 BLUEBELLS, Daphne Wuenn, Dorset I was appalled to see the
3 SNAKE’S HEAD FRITILLARY, picture of the hunter who had
Keith Worthington, Oxford shot a giraffe (Beyond the
Headlines, April 2018). I am
at a loss to understand why
so-called hunters would even
April Fool? to engage children with nature addressing the issue of the lack want to shoot giraffes. Last
The article on conservation in was great. It made me recall my of adult encouragement for year my friend and I went on
China (Creating Edens, April schooldays when we made a children to experience nature. safari to Tanzania, where we
2018) asks “Is China actually caterpillar hotel, and watched a Thankfully, I see the
leading the way in conservation?” slug eat an apple! It’s a shame positive side too – there
Jane admires
and I thought immediately: if kids these days aren’t getting are so many schools now wildlife through
April Fool or a wind up? experiences like that. encouraging the outdoor her camera lens.
I saw no reference in the Richard Southworth, via Twitter classroom, wild places
article to traditional medicines, and natural learning.
shark fin or tiger penis soup Doing our part to foster a sense Iain Green, via Twitter
(in fact, nothing about tiger of wonder and curiosity in our
parts at all), ivory or bear bile children is surely a first step to The Journey
farms. China’s record on ensuring that future generations In 1974, when I was
conservation is an absolute will value wildlife enough to 10, my mother, Joan
disgrace. Although it was want to fight for it in the face of Harris, wrote a poem
recently announced that the global environmental change. called The Journey
horn and ivory carvers were Jess also captured how the for me. Forty four years later I took many pictures. As an
ceasing their activities in the appreciation of wildlife can offer feel that it is still relevant and amateur photographer, I get my
country, they have all moved to restorative moments of calm in poignantly reflects current satisfaction from taking shots
Laos and Vietnam where a hectic world. The skill conservation issues: of wildlife behaving naturally.
they sell to China on of connecting with Jane Storer, via email
the internet! nature in this Sparkling, splishing, splashing
Peter Thomas, way is a gift. Over boulders and stones. Correction
via email Stephen A sparkling waterfall flows, O Due to a computer error,the early spider
orchid photo on p42 of our May 2018 issue was
Thackeray, via As if all the time it knows wronglyillustrated with a bee orchid.The image
Go outdoors Twitter message It must hurry down to the sea. to the left of the caption is the correct species.
The column by
Jess French in May I was delighted Sparkling, splishing, splashing QUIZ ANSWERS (see p105)
2018 on the need Walnuts are to see Jess The sparkling brook hardly stops TheWildWordsare: 1C, 2C, 3B, 4A, 5A, 6A
fed to ‘reds’
in Belgium.
June 2018 BBC Wildlife 101