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Re: Red Squirrels on the Isle of Wight
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| Pete ‹(•¿•)› 2007-03-26, 9:25 am |
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On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 09:29:04 +0100, Malcolm
<Malcolm@indaal.demon.co.uk> wrote:
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>In article <8nue03pf79mdjs3t6t7ae2ftcgo6jsr0mj@4ax.com>,
>amacmil304@aol.com writes
>Maybe the author is not an expert on the red/grey problem and doesn't
>appreciate the full facts.
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>Perhaps the author should be asked to consider the obvious questions
>that his wording poses, namely why are the red squirrels flourishing on
>the Isle of Wight and why have they shown absolutely no signs whatsoever
>of "vacating" their territory there, despite this having happened very
>widely across Britain, including more or less completely in the whole of
>the neighbouring mainland of southern England. What does he think the
>single most obvious difference is for the red squirrels between the Isle
>of Wight and nearby Hampshire?
That's easy. Loss of habitat, as you well know. Something the
CONservation hooligans are still doing nothing about, apart from a few
small woods in the North! Imagine how the millions wasted on
slaughtering squirrels, ruddy ducks, rats, mice, goats, deer and foxes
etc, not to mention fat cat salaries in the CONservation industry,
some 100Million pounds in the last 10 years alone, would have
benefited red squirrel, robin, songbird, sparrow, white headed duck
etc, habitats.
It's about time the vast bulk of conservation money was stopped being
diverted to the CONservation hooligans pockets.
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| amacmil304@aol.com 2007-03-26, 5:25 pm |
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On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 10:33:49 +0100, "Pete ‹(•¿•)›"
<farmingfacts@yahoo.com> wrote:
>On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 09:29:04 +0100, Malcolm
><Malcolm@indaal.demon.co.uk> wrote:
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>That's easy. Loss of habitat, as you well know. Something the
>CONservation hooligans are still doing nothing about, apart from a few
>small woods in the North! Imagine how the millions wasted on
>slaughtering squirrels, ruddy ducks, rats, mice, goats, deer and foxes
>etc, not to mention fat cat salaries in the CONservation industry,
>some 100Million pounds in the last 10 years alone, would have
>benefited red squirrel, robin, songbird, sparrow, white headed duck
>etc, habitats.
>
>It's about time the vast bulk of conservation money was stopped being
>diverted to the CONservation hooligans pockets.
Yes!
Angus Macmillan
www.roots-of-blood.org.uk
www.killhunting.org
www.con-servation.org.uk
All truth passes through three stages:
First, it is ridiculed;
Second, it is violently opposed; and
Third, it is accepted as self-evident.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)
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| Richard Corbett 2007-03-29, 9:25 am |
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amacmil304@aol.com wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 10:33:49 +0100, "Pete ‹(•¿•)›"
> <farmingfacts@yahoo.com> wrote:
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>
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> Yes!
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>
> Angus Macmillan
> www.roots-of-blood.org.uk
> www.killhunting.org
> www.con-servation.org.uk
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> All truth passes through three stages:
> First, it is ridiculed;
> Second, it is violently opposed; and
> Third, it is accepted as self-evident.
> -- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)
I understood that the greys carry a virus which is lethal to reds and
this is why the one dies out and the other flourishes. I am told there
is no conflict between the species directly. Is this wrong?
There is no contact with the mainland from the Isle of Wight, so - other
than by direct intervention - there is never likely to be greys there.
The odd dead grey - run over on the mainland - is brought back and
dumped on a road, mischievously causing the Island local animal
do-gooders to race round like blue arsed flies for a week or two. Still,
it takes their minds off the hunt.
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| Pete ‹(•¿•)› 2007-03-30, 9:25 am |
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On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 11:47:10 GMT, Richard Corbett
<corbett.chester@virgin.net> wrote:
>amacmil304@aol.com wrote:
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>I understood that the greys carry a virus which is lethal to reds and
>this is why the one dies out and the other flourishes.
The virus is not what's killing off the reds, it's habitat
destruction. Both creatures, and others can catch/carry the virus.
Only the red dies from it. That's life!
> I am told there
>is no conflict between the species directly. Is this wrong?
They compete for neither food, nor habitat.
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>There is no contact with the mainland from the Isle of Wight, so - other
>than by direct intervention - there is never likely to be greys there.
>
>The odd dead grey - run over on the mainland - is brought back and
>dumped on a road, mischievously causing the Island local animal
>do-gooders to race round like blue arsed flies for a week or two. Still,
>it takes their minds off the hunt.
Sadly CONservation hooliganism has started these scare stories, in
order to scapegoat the alien species. It's costing us millions, to let
some twat do to wildlife, what Himmler failed to do to ethnic
minorities.
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