How can people help protect wild animals?
They can join Aspas, and they get our magazine Goupil [an old word for fox] four times a year theres a lot of information. I am a journalist specialising in animals and we give information you will not find anywhere else. We do not really organise outings much though, as we are mainly a campaigning group and we are small we only have 10 full time staff. If you want nature visits the LPO is a better bet. On the other hand we do a lot of exhibitions for schools and little brochures about how to recognise animals or protect owls or frogs [Aspas ran a spring campaign to protect frogs from being crushed by cars as they crossed roads to get to breeding grounds]. They are interesting for anyone living in France. Do you have any tips for people with gardens can they do anything to attract wildlife? I like Britain very much and have a subscription to BBC Wildlife magazine and I think the British are ahead of the French in this. It is always good to leave a little corner of a garden you do not t