Probably a volunteer, and definitely worth getting touch with them about. Despite the sad circumstances, quite lucky to find out about this.
Now we know one of the 84 who signed the month-old petition.
J & C from Massachusetts
Perhaps somebody should contact the visitor centre's management to tell them their staff are giving misleading (just wrong!) information. They wouldn't want to be responsible for bad info about Covid and vaccines, so nor should they about naturists.
Now we know one of the 84 who signed the month-old petition.
And possibly where some of the other eighty three found the source of their outrage.
Perhaps somebody should contact the visitor centre's management to tell them their staff are giving misleading (just wrong!) information. They wouldn't want to be responsible for bad info about Covid and vaccines, so nor should they about naturists.
Has this been done? Anonymously would be ok too. I look after a team in a very similar field and whether I was a naturist or not it would be an absolute nightmare to think one of them was doing what the woman says she is. She's a one person disaster for the place.
And of course, if she’s peddling such alarmist nonsense, she’ll be frightening off everyone, not just defaming the naturist population.
Noli illegitimi te carborundum
@the-tibetan-hat i would do it if I knew who she was and I had something in writing along the lines of what she said. I can't go accusing someone of something without some evidence.
Fair enough, although it wouldn't need to be a complaint about a specific person, if it can be given as an example of what's out there in the community and becoming associated them that would be enough for them to respond to. The management at the Visitor Centre will be able to remind their teams of the very clear RSPB policy and what they require their staff and volunteers to say about it.
@the-tibetan-hat I doubt they reqie their staff to say or not say anythng about it. They do not promote it, they would rather that it was not happening, they are protecting their backs not ours.
The reason the Visitor Centre would want to know isn't for our benefit, it's because they have enough trouble convincing people to use and explore the nature reserve - which is basically their job, they really don't need one of their own putting people off. It's in their interests this woman is stopped too.
@the-tibetan-hat Well that is not what Chloe the warden told me, she was happy to discourage people from using the reserve, because they frighten the wildlife away. She told me she would be happy if no one visited and she detested te problems that textiles caused with nuisance and litter. The visitors Centre is an entirely different matter and no where near where we walk and the car park is full to overflowing in the summer.
Well that is a strange position, if it makes sense why I tend to defend the RSPB at Sherwood it's because I worked for them for a number of years and one of the strategies was always to get people to visit the reserves and have experiences in them because it's a driver for supporting the charity. Strange way of managing the place if the idea is to discourage visitors (or at least not encourage them). Apart from the litter, maybe dealing with the odd complaint about us is part of it, which are more likely if one of their own is putting the idea in people's heads that we are what we definitely are not.
@the-tibetan-hat If you worked for them it sounds like you are ideally placed to let them know that someone is spreading bad things about naturists and putting people off. I look forward to hearing what sort of response you get.
It’s called visitor management. They have their honeypot sites where they have visitor centres etc and they get to interact, educate, influence and get money out of visitors, enabling visitors to see nature, preferably from hides. Elsewhere, they want to see minimal disturbance of wildlife. That is why they are called nature reserves, after all
There is always a tension between getting people to experience and understand nature, so that they respect and support it, and how you do that without creating the very disturbance you want to avoid. Uncontrolled, noisy activities can have a major impact on wildlife but perhaps the worst problem is dogs, as they range all over disturbing nesting birds etc. But you put restrictions on dogwalkers at your peril….
Tread lightly upon the earth
Well thank you.