grey squirrel law

[forestgough]

Is it a legal requirement for a woodland owner to control grey squirrels,would they also be obliged to control rhodedendrons.

[rovers90]

There was an article I read in January stating that inorder to receive grants from the FC, land owners had to have a grey management plan in place. Don't think it is law just a condition of any funding.

[woodyguy]

No law just a requirement of some grant funding

[SteveA]

Is it a legal requirement for a woodland owner to control grey squirrels,would they also be obliged to control rhodedendrons.

 

Probably should be a legal requirement....

[matelot]

it's against the law to release any that you have trapped. a lot of animal charities treat injured squirrel and break the law by realising them back into the wild.

 

I trapped 4 in the last few weeks in my parent's garden

 

a good tip for you all is not to tell girls that you shoot squirrels on a first date, for some reason they find it a turn off?

[Couldyajust]

No legal obligation to control either although in the case of the rhododendron (which is a schedule 9 invasive plant) if you do nothing & it spreads to a neighbours land then they can take legal action against you & ultimately force you to control it. Unless it is on farmland & you receive a single farm payment in which case allowing an infestation of invasive non-native species results in financial penalties or possibly even the complete loss of the single farm payment.