Goose 'ban': A huge fence is set to erected around a lake
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Sophia Sleigh, Political Correspondent @SophiaSleigh6 March 2018
Geese are to be banned from Regent’s Park because visitors keep slipping on their droppings.
There are plans to put a fence around the boating lake to stop 400 Canada Geese flocking to the park in June to moult.
The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) has criticised Royal Parks, which looks after the park, for pushing the birds into “a smaller and smaller space”.
Canada Geese cannot fly during the six-week annual moulting process, when they shed old feathers and regrow new ones, between June until mid-July.
Nick Biddle, the park manager, defended the move saying that the number of geese made the area “dangerous”.
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