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Some people assume that the VWG only deals with local wildlife. It doesn't.
Back in 1976 I launched the British Fox Study and from that (over a year ago) emerged the Fox Deaths Project, the only one of its kind in the UK.
In 1980 I officially started looking at wildcats which led to the Wildcats, Ferals and Hybrids Study.
I also set up the Bristol Badger Group but work let it lapse until I relaunched it.
In 1977, having thought the very idea of large cats (pumas etc) were in the UK I contacted UK police forces and became an exotics animal consultant and set up the Exotic Animals Register (EAR) -again the only organisation of its type and I was the only naturalist working on this subject. Unfortunately, the evidence for large cats and other exotics led into a study that is still ongoing.
Police Forces, particularly Wildlife Crimes Officers, all received an irregular EAR Bulletin whichn updated them on reports as well as findings. A number of advisories were published over the years and these went to colleges, universities, National Farmers Union and many others. I still, amazingly, have the first sheet (cover) to the first two Bulletins.
All of this work came under the Vale Wildlife Group when I set it up and still do. Being a "noted natuiralist" (I have to laugh as that comes with no money just a lot of debt) means I have established contacts with naturalists and zoologists around the world.
So now you know.
Oh, and wildlife work takes money but never gives
