uk.environment.conservation

In article <1191493029.74495.0@demeter.uk.clara.net>, BAC
writes
>
> wrote in message
>news:lqb9g3tb9p5vri8eduqu08iiaghdu9lnkl@4ax.com...
>> On Thu, 4 Oct 2007 09:22:12 +0100, "BAC"
>> wrote:
>>
>>>If grey squirrels were able to understand human activities, they'd
>>>doubtless
>>>be worried to learn that they've made the Daily Mail's sh1t list, as
>>>evidenced by a rant they've commissioned from one of their tame rednecks.
>>>
>>>http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_artic
>>>le_id=485515&in_page_id=1770&in_page_id=1770&expand=true#StartComments
>>>
>>>
>>
>> See also http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7026097.stm for the
>> "alternative" which has amounted to an enormous number of hits to
>> Professor Acorn's website.
>>
>>
>
>Fame at last, Angus :-)
>
If only by being quoted saying, wrongly, that the red squirrel might not
be native because of continental imports! As Angus has been told many
times, the red squirrel remains a native species, regardless of whether
there have been imports to boost its population, just as are the
capercaillie, the red kite and the white-tailed eagle, plus, of course,
the large blue butterfly. And, significantly, they are all regarded as
native under the law, which is rather more important than Angus's
attempts to bend the facts in order to stop the culling of grey
squirrels. If the beaver reintroduction finally goes ahead, that species
will be treated as native, too.

--
Malcolm