Dormice

This is just a quick post about the recent press reports regarding the council in Wales that built a bridge that incorporated the facility for dormice to cross the new bypass.
Dormice have been around since the Eocene period (some 56 to 34 million years ago) which is far longer than mankind but are now endangered and thus protected.
For people to complain that they should not have been considered when the bridge was built because of the financial situation now is SO WRONG.
It is man's greed that has created the current financial situation and our wildlife should not have to suffer because we are incapable of being fiscally prudent.
Wildlife Aid and probably many other wildlife charities who seek to protect our native wildlife from mankind's brutality, thoughtlessness, carelessness and incursions into their habitat, are struggling financially so I would ask anyone who reads this to contact their local wildlife (or other animal charity if preferred) to see what they can do to help.
If we do not support these charities in their work then (I know it's an old cliche) future generations will not have the pleasure of the presence in our world of such wildlife.

This is the native British dormouse known as the Hazel Dormouse because hazel is it's main pre-hibernation food.