This really is a very bad country when it comes to caring about wildlife.

 

In any decent society one would expect that a vehicle driver hitting any animal, be it wildlife or domestic pet, would stop and check whether it was dead or alive. This is such a RARE occurrence that I can only think of one such act in five years.

Cities and towns are full of CCTV traffic cameras so it would be nice to see striking and not reporting a dead or injured animal become a criminal offence.

Over 40 badgers, 105 foxes and 2 otters in Bristol struck and left as dead since 1st January. Oh..one person (a pedestrian) reported a fox hit hours after he saw it.

Urban badgers in the City and County of Bristol, Bath and NE Somerset and South Gloucestershire which this group covers are not rare. People reporting dead ones is as the view seems to be "It's dead. Nothing to do with me" and yet people are able to communicate such finds easily in 2026.

This really is a very bad country when it comes to caring about wildlife.