Date published: 2008/10/05
The BBC says:
The public are being urged to track the UK's red squirrel population to help protect it from a deadly virus.
The Wildlife Trusts charity wants to guard against the threat posed to the UK's estimated 160,000 red squirrels by squirrel pox, carried by greys.
By people reporting sightings of reds during Squirrel Week, which starts later, it hopes to identify areas where protective measures may be required.
These could include culling of grey squirrels, which are more common.
Conservationists say culling is a necessary evil to help preserve red squirrels for the future.
Culling is not a "necessary evil", it is academic middle class control freaks who think they have the right to play God. It is amazing how many so-called conservationists seem to spend all their time and effort fighting Mother Nature and in particular trying to commit mass killing against some species or other that they happen not to like. Hopefully the public will not help this organisation (although no doubt many of the academic middle class will).
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