I was saddened to read last week that the East Sussex Wildlife Rescue Ambulance had been clamped near London Road, Brighton, despite having signs in the window that it was on a call and carrying out wildlife rescue (The Argus, May 6).

The volunteers need to park near where the wildlife is in trouble.

I received a £60 parking ticket myself earlier in the year from a council traffic warden while I was five minutes retrieving a sparrow from inside a house.

My vehicle was in the private parking bay outside and displayed no less than five notices explaining "Short stop, urgent wildlife rescue" and my telephone number and name, so I can imagine volunteer Maz Marriot's feelings when he returned to his vehicle to find it clamped.

As in my case, the ticket was eventually quashed, but it all takes letters and valuable time to instigate this, time we could all spend tending to our casualties.

It was most unfair that Mr Marriot had to pay an administration charge of £45 and hits the nail on the head when he says: "Why can't they use their initiative?"

Our vehicles all clearly show what we are trying to do and that is to administer to wildlife in difficulty.

This means stopping as near as possible to that suffering animal or bird. So please, traffic wardens and clampers, let's have a bit more lenience and give us more time to affect a rescue.

After all, we are all volunteers.

-Roger Musselle, Roger's Wildlife Rescue, Woodingdean