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Mike
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Joined: 15 Feb 2003
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Posted: 19 May 2003

June "Wildlife" magazine has just turned up.

In an article on wildlife in a Bristol garden (starts page 42) there is a diagram on what can be done to introduce wildlfe into your garden. Text for a "smaller pond " goes (repeated verbatim) -

"The pond was rapidly colonised by frogs and smooth newts; commercially bred toad tadpoles and great crested newts are being introduced."

"Commercially bred" - illegal surely ?

Mike


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GemmaJF
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Joined: 25 Jan 2003
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Posted: 19 May 2003
Distinctly grey area Mike, hopefully some of the other members have a better grasp of it than I do, but in theory captive bred tadpoles are not covered by the Wildlife and Countryside act as they were never wild animals, though if their parents were not themselves captive bred, they become captive reared.. which are covered, they also become covered by the act if released, but this is only legal if they are UK stock - and some amphibians from some counties can be sold commercially under licence if not collected during the breeding season.. I think thats about the situation!???
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Caleb
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Joined: 17 Feb 2003
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Posted: 19 May 2003

I've tried to summarise it all in a relatively easy to understand form on my page at:

http://www.darkwave.org.uk/~caleb/uklaw.html

but basically, fully captive bred (2nd generation) stock of all UK species is not controlled at all. There are a couple of people who sell small numbers of captive-bred specimens of UK amphibian species, quite legally.

It's up to the person possessing them to prove that they are captive bred and legal.

As far as I know (though I'm quite willing to be corrected), it's never illegal to release any legally-held specimens of native species on your own land, no matter what their origin.

There is a general licence to allow trade of the common amphibian species when collected outside the breeding season, details are here:

http://www.defra.gov.uk/paw/publications/law/3_12.htm


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