Saturday, January 16, 2010

GREY SQUIRREL CULL IN GREAT BRITAIN. FOR OR AGAINST?

Please give reasons. I have seriously researched this and have come to a conclusion. Now I want your views.GREY SQUIRREL CULL IN GREAT BRITAIN. FOR OR AGAINST?
I am for a cull of grey squirrels to control their population as they cause damage to our woodlands. Also they carry a disease which affects our native red squirrels (squirrel pox). Grey squirrels are not native to UK, they can survive here because they have a wide diet unlike red squirrels. I don't advocate wiping them out completely just population control.GREY SQUIRREL CULL IN GREAT BRITAIN. FOR OR AGAINST?
I'm glad you were voted top answer as this is the conclusion I came to and have since terminated 67 so far this year. Kind regards, Jamie.

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while it may be natural to sit back and allow nature to take its course and exterminate one species in favour of another ? it has to be noted we did interfere with this by introducing the grey squirrel in first place!


experts on wild life seem to agree it is not possibly wise to allow a species to become extinct by our hand an thus a cull of an ever increasing population seems to be a logical if not popular point of view bearing some argument.


If we use some of those viewpoint that say allow nature to take its course.. why then do we constantly interfere with it when it comes to everything else?


medicines,operations etc help for infirm .aged, animals and starving tribes and so on.


we intercede on a daily basis and not always with positive results.


overall we need to allow those with whom we rely on for good judgement and expertise to make such decisions for us.
For food yes as tree rabbit, cull no.





Why don't ';they'; introduce a bird of prey instead?





Soon we wouldn't have any animals in the country side if ';man'; decide to cull everything - like the bison, elk, bear, beaver, wolf, otter, salmon, fish, golden eagle, native trees - the countryside was once a forest and parts of open grassland, now most are grasslands/moorland.





Do you kill off the hare (normans), nettles, leeks (romans), carrots (Dutch), tomatoes, potatoes (New World/Sir Walter Raleigh) etc, in fact all vegetables and plants and seeds of Kew garden plants that are introduced to the country?
Yes, for.


I also think that they should be allowed to be sold at the butchers in a similar way that rabbits (another foul pest) are.





Where I live down south (UK) we have plenty of parakeets too %26amp; they are possibly doing in the local bird life, particularly sparrows, as the grey squirrels did for the red squirrel.





This is just my opinion %26amp; I may be wrong!





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I know only a little about the issue, so my opinion may not be as well informed as yours.


But I think, if nature wants to evolve measures to curb the spread of a species that has run out of control (like say, humans, developing worse and worse diseases surely has to be natures way of trying to clip our wings) then nature will do it. Its not up to us to go on a mass kill spree, if the countryside will alter, then it will, it has many many times before and will again. Just an opinion though, respect to anyone else's.
no...not ever would i support a cull on them....i love them %26amp; i feed them in my garden...sometimes they come with their babies...SO cute!

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