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The notices appeared at Ockham Common near Wisley, Surrey, and are styled on the official posters issued by park rangers.
The laminated sheets show a silhouetted image of two men with the words “no buggery” in bold beneath and contains translated terms for offensive gay slang such as ‘a*** bandit’.
The poster, which also includes the Wildlife Trust logo, advises: “Gentlemen, if you really can’t find love in a specialist establishment or online, please clear up after yourselves.”
Grace House, a local dog walker, said: “At first I thought it was a joke – which it might be – but it has the Wildlife Trusts logo on it and the sign is the same design as other signs on the common asking dog walkers to pick up their dog poo.
“So it seems like quite a lot of effort for someone to go to just for a joke.
“I could understand if it was in a more prominent place like Richmond Park but to go to such extreme lengths just to put a joke sign on a small common like Ockham seems strange.”
The local Wildlife Trust have branded the offensive posters “inappropriate”.
A spokeswoman for the Surrey Wildlife Trust, which manages the site, said: “Obviously these posters are very inappropriate and have used the logo of The Wildlife Trusts without permission.
“We have asked our rangers on the site to remove them as soon as possible.”