Re: Squirrel propaganda

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From: BAC
Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2008 09:26

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"Nick Maclaren" <nmm1@cus.cam.ac.uk> wrote in message 
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> In article <1212954610.4349.0@proxy00.news.clara.net>,
> "BAC" <casswalk@NOSPAMdircon.co.uk> writes:
> |> "Old Codger" <oldcodger@anyoldwhere.net> wrote in message
> |> news:at9o4411t6g5k411q4ft1unt7fe1eb9ktn@4ax.com...
> |> > On Sun, 08 Jun 2008 18:37:56 +0100, amacmil304@aol.com wrote:
> |> >
> |> >>Squirrel Propaganda
> |> >>
> |> >>The ongoing campaign against grey squirrels is grossly unfair and
> |> >>doesn't stack up factually.
> |> >
> |> > Nick Maclaren once stated the greys we naturalized natives.
> |>
> |> If Nick meant that the UK population of grey squirrels had become
> |> naturalised, in the same way that many populations of non-indigenous
> |> flora and fauna are, e.g. rabbits, then he was undoubtedly correct.
>
> It's somewhat hard to deny!
>
> I have no great truck with the 'native'/'introduced' distinction as
> applied to the UK, as it doesn't make much scientific or historical
> sense, but the fact remains that grey squirrels are a very recent
> introduction, and a threat to several other, well-established UK
> species and even ecologies; and so a campaign of control (or even,
> dare we say it, elimination) is justified on ecological grounds.
>

To which well-established UK species (other than the remaining remnants of 
the red squirrel population) and ecologies are grey squirrels considered a 
threat?

> However, whether that is feasible is another matter.
>

I doubt whether elimination would be feasible. The 'free cartridge' squirrel 
clubs and bounties of the 1940s and 50s apparently had little effect, and 
the current population is so widespread and numerous that the scale of the 
task would be unjustifiable, especially in view of the opposition it would 
encounter.

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