Grey Squirrel Victimisaton Awareness

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kwerk

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Honestly I don't care if red squirrels go extinct. That debate is so full of hypocrisy. People want to preserve them because they are "native"? That's exactly the same silly argument the BNP uses. Apply that philosphy to humans and it's called racism.

In fact if you search for red grey native squirrel on google, the BNP website is one of the first to come up, no joke! They have a whole blurb about it.

Seriously I think it's messed up that people are being encouraged to eat grey ones "eat a grey, save a red" and things like that:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2008/may/11/recipes.foodanddrink

If you're so worried about "native" Britain how about we re-introduce bears and wolves to your local woods where you walk your dog!
 
If you look at the Australians they try to preserve their natural environment as best they can in an attempt to preserve their Eco system. Youl be dating you don't like white clawed crayfish next? The American crayfish has almost wiped all them out and doing untold damage to our sewers, harbours and river systems
 
People don't want to preserve them because they're native, they want to preserve them because it was human intervention that put them at risk in the first place.
 
Australia has problems that we don't have here. In Australia they've been isolated from the rest of the world as far as species go, so when those species are introduced there's mass changes to the ecosystem.

We do have it to some extent here, but not as badly as Australia.
 
Squirells are vermin, they carry the same kind of diseases as pigeons/ rats. The red squirrell population was kept in check due to its obvious pigmentation. The grey Squirells are bigger, more aggressive and breed faster than red squirrels. Therefore red Squirells are being replaced by more and more disease carriers. If the population of grey Squirells expands even more it could do untold damage to our ecosystem
 
It's not a race issue, they are different species. It's not like you get mixed race squirrel now is it :p
 
After almost wiping out its red cousins in the UK, it seems the grey squirrel is getting a taste of its own medicine.
The black squirrel population is soaring and experts say it could eventually be the dominant variety.
There are now believed to be at least 25,000 – mostly in East Anglia – but isolated sightings have been recorded elsewhere.

The spread of the black variant is the biggest change in squirrel demographics since the red population was devastated 50 years ago.
The grey squirrel was able to displace the native red because it is larger and better able to compete for food. It also infected the reds with a disease.
Once in the millions, red squirrel numbers have declined to just 120,000 in the UK.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...-hunt-100-years-introduced.html#ixzz1vNbTzm2m
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Quink said:
The best kind of grey squirrel is a dead grey squirrel ;)
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+1

It has been illegal to keep grey squirrels (without a licence) since 1937, and it is illegal to release them into the wild, & if you trap them, they must be humanly killed..

Quite a few years ago I did game keeping, & use to get between £1.50p - £1.75p per tail, some company up north bought them for making fishing flies.
 
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