Grey squirrel cull grants

[Wood wasp]

Millions of pounds of public money to pay for grey squirrel cull - Telegraph

[Big Beech]

7 where unlucky yesterday!

[mickdundee]

Too many bunny huggers are the reason so many pest species are seeing numbers increase year after year. Then The government pick up the bill for an organised cull because things are out of hand. Badgers now squirrels and I don't think it'll be long before deer are being culled in the south because sportsmen don't have a big enough impAct any more. Hunting has become taboo

[woody paul]

If everyone just keeps it quiet and just gets on with it no one will be on there case.

[peatff]

Prince Charles is on the case. Pine Martens seem to benefit the red squirrel by killing off greys. If red squirrels develop immunity to the disease the greys carry they would stand more chance of survival.

[TGB]

There's plenty of places where there's just grey and no red left. Getting rid of all the greys isn't magically going to produce reds. Now if there were a concerted effort to reintroduce the red. Bit of a knee jerk reaction too late. Throw a bundle of cash at landowners and the cuddly reds will be romping through the woods. I can see big landowners making a killing.

Edited January 4, 2015 by TGB

[Eddy_t]

There's plenty of places where there's just grey and no red left. Getting rid of all the greys isn't magically going to produce reds. Now if there were a concerted effort to reintroduce the red. Bit of a knee jerk reaction too late. Throw a bundle of cash at landowners and the cuddly reds will be romping through the woods. I can see big landowners making a killing.

 

 

You need a concentrated effort of eradication of the grey squirrel first, the grey squirrel carries a disease fatal to reds!

[Acg128]

Few more that didn't make it..

[Mountain man]

You'll never exterminate the greys, far, far far too late for that.

[mickdundee]

You'll never exterminate the greys, far, far far too late for that.

 

Unfortunately I agree.