PARK bosses have slapped a ban on children feeding bread to ducks. Generations of families have visited the lake at the heart of Salford’s Clowes Park to share stale loaves with the birds, but no more.
Officials say the ban is designed to save wildlife in the park lake and to deter rats. Yesterday Clowes Park was bathed in bright sunshine and dozens of locals were out to make the most of it. But the mallards, coots and moorhens hoping for a nibble of a crust were out of luck.
Four-year-old Lana Darbyshire and cousin Luke Hills, eight, had turned up with a bag of bread. But they and all other park visitors obeyed the new signs. One says: “Please do not feed the birds bread. It will kill young birds and fish, encourage rats and make the water dirty and polluted. You can feed the birds corn grain or pulses. Please help the ecology of the lake - don’t bring bread.”
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1 jimmy // Apr 16, 2007 at 1:39 pm
If is is so harming, then why do other parks around the country and world still allow it? It cant be impacting that much seeing as though this 1 park decides that it is bad for them.
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