Great Created Newts For Sale At Garden Centre

[Blackbrook Eye]

Originally Posted by solus

I've had a 'orrible thought!

What if some well-meaning customer should buy these believing them to be Great Crested Newts (Native UK species) and releases them into the wild....

Apart from the legalities of the Trade Descriptions Acts if they are wrongly labelled....

Same thought was going through my mind, surely there are enough non-natives in the country now without adding to them. Does anyone know how these imports would fare in the wild in Britain ? or is it yet another case of cash now, care later.

Keith

[Kayleigh]

Originally Posted by Blackbrook Eye

Same thought was going through my mind, surely there are enough non-natives in the country now without adding to them. Does anyone know how these imports would fare in the wild in Britain ? or is it yet another case of cash now, care later.

Keith

Yes, yet another problem waiting to happen...