Can I use photos on WAB?

All of the images in Wild About Britain are protected by copyright and the copyright belongs to the photographer. To use any images from the website, please contact the individual photographer by clicking on their name in the gallery/forum.

Change Profile

You can change your profile by clicking on the icon when you are logged into the forum and choose the various option from the 'Your Profile' menu on the left hand column. You cannot change your username.

Gallery Guidelines

The Wild About Britain gallery has lots of stunning photographs with some of the best British wildlife images to be found anywhere on the Internet. In order to maintain these high standards, we have produced the following guidelines to help all members display their photographs in the gallery.
*****Please Do Not Post Images of Bird Nests*****

Are My Pictures Good Enough?

Moderators and Editors

Moderators oversee the running of the forums to ensure that they operate smoothly and that members keep to the site rules. Moderators have the ability to edit and delete posts, move threads, and perform other tasks to maintain the forums.

The forum moderators are fourwings, fungijohn, glsammy, matt_xyz, nightshade, oy, stuartdh and tinkerbell

External Links

Wild About Britain allows occasional links to external websites, but we don't allow spam.

We're keen to help promote non-profit wildlife and environment websites around the UK, but we also want to control the type and amount of links posted on the site.
With a few conditions attached (see below) we allow quite a lot links on the site via our link pages, forum signatures, directory, forum profile, news etc., but we don't want links to start filling up the forum threads because:

Why are some Members Frozen?

If a member breaks the rules, or appears to have broken the rules, then their account will be frozen until we are satisfied that any related issue has been addressed and rectified.

How do I upload images?

WAB only allows images from the Gallery or Image Library to be shown in forum posts - why?
To Upload Your Images in the Image Library
1. Click on the Images link at the top of the screen

How do I add images to forum posts?

For lots of really good reasons, images in the forum can only be linked from the Wild About Britain Gallery or the Wild About Britain Image Library and not external websites.
To add an image to your forum post:
1. Find the image in the Gallery or Image Library. and make sure you are viewing at full-size, rather than the small thumbnail image.
2. Right-click inside the 'Forum Code' box under the image and choose 'select all' from the drop-down menu - the code should turn blue:

How Can I Stop Email Notifications?

There are several ways that you can stop receiving notifications emails for threads that you've subscribed to in the forums. One of the easiest ways is to follow the - 'Unsubscription information:' instructions at the bottom of the email.
Alternatively, you can click on the icon in the forums and choose 'Edit Options' to change your account settings. Go to the box marked "Default Thread Subscriptions mode" and select an option from the drop-down menu. Scroll to the bottom of the page and 'Save' your new settings.

How can I Rename, Edit or Delete an Image?

Only the gallery editors are able to edit or rename images in the Gallery and the Image Library. To notify the Gallery Editors, please click on the icon under the image.
Once uploaded, images cannot be deleted as doing so would break the forum threads and reference section links that are based on this content. After the gallery editors have taken the time to organise images and members have also spent a lot of time answering questions relating to
posted images in threads etc., it's the least we can do to try and ensure that

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