{"id":40135,"date":"2020-11-20T13:42:11","date_gmt":"2020-11-20T13:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/?p=40135"},"modified":"2020-11-20T13:42:11","modified_gmt":"2020-11-20T13:42:11","slug":"bambi-hates-lockdown-2-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/bambi-hates-lockdown-2-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Bambi hates lockdown 2.0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>As the rate of Covid-19 cases increase and society\u2019s fear of the virus decreases, the wildlife of London has been given the shorter end of the stick and bear the brunt of the second lockdown&#8217;s unintended consequences.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">With everyone stuck at home, people have braved going out in the day to keep up with their physical fitness more in this quarantine than in the first. The parks have seen a surplus of visitors which, to say the least, is a stark contrast from when <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/things-to-do\/animals-taking-back-human-spaces-while-the-world-is-in-lockdown\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">pelicans<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> were roving around Central and a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/things-to-do\/animals-taking-back-human-spaces-while-the-world-is-in-lockdown\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">hoard of deer<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> became East London\u2019s new tenants\u2026 Flashback to May when Londoners properly hid indoors as if the zombie apocalypse had finally transpired.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Richmond Park, located in west Greater London and capping at around three and a half square miles, has been one such victim of heavy human traffic. As the largest of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.royalparks.org.uk\/parks\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">London\u2019s Royal Parks<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, Richmond Park is of international and national prestige for wildlife conservation while it nurtures 630 Red and Fallow deer dating all the way back to 1637.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-40135 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/bambi-hates-lockdown-2-0\/untitled_artwork-1-2\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2020\/12\/Untitled_Artwork-1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-43390\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-43390'>\n\t\t\t\tGraphic by Maelina Hassel\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/bambi-hates-lockdown-2-0\/untitled_artwork\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2020\/12\/Untitled_Artwork-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-43391\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-43391'>\n\t\t\t\tGraphic by Maelina Hassel\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Handing out over 1,000 citations since July, the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MPSRoyal_Parks?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Royal Parks Police<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> have insisted that visitors stand at least 50 metres from the native wildlife and do not feed them under any circumstances. While a good many do adhere respectfully to the rules, a small but impactful few find a way to ruin it for others.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/theroyalparks?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@theroyalparks<\/a> my friend took these pics on a long zoom lens today.<br \/>\nPeople feeding the deer from their hands, then throwing food at the deer when the deer decided they\u2019d had enough.<br \/>\nSo horrible to endanger the children in this way. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/y2xAVYLD6H\">pic.twitter.com\/y2xAVYLD6H<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Charlotte (@CharlotteWilden) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CharlotteWilden\/status\/1328028016958713856?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 15, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Wedding dress designer Charlotte Wilden <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CharlotteWilden\/status\/1328028016958713856\">took to Twitter last week<\/a> sharing her friend\u2019s zoom-lens photos of a man feeding the deer. Allegedly, after the deer had had enough, he threw the food at it causing it to become hostile. Wilden commented about the park-goers nearby: \u201cSo horrible to endanger the children in this way.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Richmond Park remains crowded even though new guidelines for social distancing were issued 5 November. The Royal Parks Police has had its hands full protecting London\u2019s native creatures while simultaneously trying to guard park visitors and keep the virus at bay, reminding people: \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.royalparks.org.uk\/media-centre\/press-releases\/feeding-deer-is-the-opposite-of-kind,-says-the-royal-parks\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Feeding deer is the opposite of kind.<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Words: Maelina Hassel | Subbing: Warshma Chughtai<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the rate of Covid-19 cases increase and society\u2019s fear of the virus decreases, the wildlife of London has been given the shorter end of the stick and bear the brunt of the second lockdown&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":476,"featured_media":40137,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,93,134],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-animals","category-news","category-uknews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/476"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}