The BBC in Bristol To Kill A Fox As It Has Mange and "We are a business"

  The BBC studios at Whiteladies Road, Bristol, home to wildlife programmes featuring Chris Packham and Sir David Attenborough, have also been known since the 1970s for foxes living there. They even used to film them occasionally for BBC Points West News.

A fox with easily treatable mange was reported. Sarah Mills, the Bristol Fox Lady )approved by the RSPCA and Animal Rescue Centre, Bristol) offered to treat it. The "Facilities Manager" told her that she could not as "contractors will deal with it" -so pest control are being paid to shoot it. "You do not understand that this is a business" was the response Sarah received.

So, getting the runaround on a Friday (knowing that by the time I could find someone everyone would have gone home I emailed BBC Points West, BBC Wildlife as well as the BBC HQ in London about the matter. I also alerted Chris Packham via X as to what was going on.

Very likely the fox is going to be killed rather than treated. At a time when fox numbers have declined so drastically that even the British Trust for Ornithology is suggesting the species be Red Listed it is totally disgusting that the "wildlife loving" BBC decides to kill an easily treatable animal.