Wildlife Budget Cuts

Bad news for wildlife: Metropolitan Police budget cuts will reduce London's Wildlife Crime Unit (WCU) by half, severely hampering its fight against wildlife crime. The savings will amount to a piddling £80,000 a year. How many millions of pounds did the last outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease cost the UK? That terrible killer was imported with illegal bush meat from an endangered species! London is the capital of the global trade in illegal wildlife products. We need more wildlife police, not less. Click the title link to visit the World Wide Fund for Nature UK to send your protest to the Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner.