Trevor Sawyer
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I see from today's BBC news website that another fungus which looks set to cause problems for our native wildlife has made it over here from America.
We have already imported a fungus spread by the Americal Signal Crayfish which is successfully decimating all colonies of our own White-Clawed version and now a fungus deadly to frogs has been found in the wild over here for the first time. It looks to have arrived on Americal Bullfrogs which somehow appeared in a couple of lakes in the South East of the UK somewhere... When WILL people learn not to put non-native animals into out water systems. The poor old frogs in the UK are already declining, even without this setback. The way it's going, we won't have any British wildlife soon... we'll be over-run by larger illegal "aliens". Americal Mink are largely responsible for reducing our water vole population - that was another disaster.
I hope they manage to nip the problem in the bud, but if no action is taken quickly, it's bound to finish up spreading as fast as the Signal Crays have.
We have already imported a fungus spread by the Americal Signal Crayfish which is successfully decimating all colonies of our own White-Clawed version and now a fungus deadly to frogs has been found in the wild over here for the first time. It looks to have arrived on Americal Bullfrogs which somehow appeared in a couple of lakes in the South East of the UK somewhere... When WILL people learn not to put non-native animals into out water systems. The poor old frogs in the UK are already declining, even without this setback. The way it's going, we won't have any British wildlife soon... we'll be over-run by larger illegal "aliens". Americal Mink are largely responsible for reducing our water vole population - that was another disaster.
I hope they manage to nip the problem in the bud, but if no action is taken quickly, it's bound to finish up spreading as fast as the Signal Crays have.