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English Nature is conducting a web-based public survey to determine the UK's views on its coasts and seas. This is to be used in the development of their maritime strategy which will help implement the Government's stewardship vision set out in 'Safeguarding our Seas' and the biodiversity strategy for England 'Working with the grain of nature'.

If you have a few minutes to spare please fill out their survey. Please use the link below and click on the starfish - the web page also has further details about the survey.

<A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.english-nature.org.uk/science/coasts_and_seas/default.asp>http://www.english-nature.org.uk/science/coasts_and_seas/default.asp</A>




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Re: total rubbish

Please answer the following questions

1 Job: are you
a ) a student
b) at school
c) a homemaker
d) retired
e) a social worker
f) in local government
g) a care worker
h) in the voluntary sector
i) a postgraduate researcher
j) a moneygrubbing git, probably with a big car and a boat.

2) Do you live
a) in various places, because you are homeless
b) with your parents
c) in a care home
d) in a hostel
e) in government-provided accomodation
f) in a refuge
g) in a nice big house with a fence to keep out burglars, neighbours and other lowlife types.

3) Salary: please put yourself in one of the following brackets
a) voluntary worker, no salary
b) at school, no salary
c) junior level government job plus London weighting
d) quite reasonable unsacakable government job.
e) senior level government worker with loads of holidays, excellent salary and good prospects. Mind you, the staff car park is full of scrap.
f) Lots more than any of the people who dream up these salary brackety things consider is possible.


4) Newspaper: Do you read
a) The Guardian every day
b) The Guardian only once a week
c) The Guardian less than once a week
d) some other newspaper. Really? What about the Guardian, though?


5) As few as 40,000 species of plants now survive on our coasts. Does this
a) worry you a little?
b) worry you a great deal?
c ) make you think well, 40,00 sounds quite lot and most them will probably be weeds anyway, and most different species look quite lot the same too, most of which die off through natural selection, easily the greatest killer of plant and animal species over that last few bilion years and NOT cars or aerosols.

Thank you for answering this hopeless and one-sided survey, based on no research, no sampling, no idea who fills in any of the results, and made up by a boneheaded sandal-wearing nutter who should be sacked, shot and dumped at sea to save the government wasting any more money.

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Re: total rubbish

Well, you got out the wrong side of bed this morning.

I suppose you'd better write direct to English Nature to give the benefit of your wisdom. In the meantime, water users who do want EN to know what they think might take the time to contribute their tuppence to the survey.

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Re: total rubbish

I understand where tcm's coming from, but they do have to make these things accessible to all levels, which makes it a bit of a compromise.

On the whole, their aims are good, and a bit of publicity and public awareness never does any harm. I answered the questions, but had to go off googling to check which of the different types of site I'd visited. I knew many of the terms, but for some, couldn't honestly say if I'd been to them or not. Stunned when I found out I'd visited at least one of each type of site. There are more of them than you think - Lymington Marshes for instance qualified me for the last one, and I didn't even know it

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Going astray

You've visited Lymington marshes? I always try to stay in the deep water channel.

Actually, I think if you have to Google the places you've visited to determine whether they are sites of special seagrass interest, or whatever, you should have answered "Dont know".

Surely what they are trying to determine is how well they 'advertise' the special status of such places, and if you make as if you were aware that Mudslip on Sea is an officially recognised seahorse stables, they will think "Oh, what a good job we're doing. Give us a rise."



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Re: Going astray

Other way round for most of them eg went to Lindisfarne. Knew is was an S something, but ssr, sst, sse, ssw, ssp - no clue - so looked it up. Same for loads of bits of Dorset, West wales, even Solent. etc etc. Didn't know about Lymington marshes though - must stop planing across them at high spring tides

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Re: Going astray

>>For heaven's sake don't do that, you'll upset the shagging nests. Sorry, nesting shags<<

I didn't realise they were so fond of me doing it. In which case I shall continue.

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