Telegraph: Red squirrels fight for survival
Typical of those evil socialists to destroy this once great country of ours. 'British nuts for British squirrels', I say.
Anyone that supports the
is an idiot or a traitor. If they are foreign they should be kicked out the country.
Dr Craig Shuttleworth is a hero – a red squirrel hero. For years there has been a myth that Britain’s endemic red squirrel is doomed and that the march of the alien grey squirrel cannot be curtailed.
It is a myth propagated by those with a political animal-rights agenda and by organisations such as Defra. This line is even promoted by some Wildlife Trusts, which choose to tiptoe through the anthropomorphic world of modern, Disneyfied Britain, putting warped political correctness and public relations before conservation. The argument has been that the grey squirrel can never be properly controlled and that “nature” should be given free rein. This is the view of the online “Professor Acorn”, complete with grey squirrel merchandising, who writes as if he is a squirrel.
Recently, Dr Ian Rotherham of Sheffield Hallam University (author of Peat and Peat Cutting) said controlling grey squirrels was “eco-xenophobia”. He said of schemes involving population management “that they resonate with ideas growing with the BNP in the UK, and with other right-wing groups across Europe”.
It is a myth propagated by those with a political animal-rights agenda and by organisations such as Defra. This line is even promoted by some Wildlife Trusts, which choose to tiptoe through the anthropomorphic world of modern, Disneyfied Britain, putting warped political correctness and public relations before conservation. The argument has been that the grey squirrel can never be properly controlled and that “nature” should be given free rein. This is the view of the online “Professor Acorn”, complete with grey squirrel merchandising, who writes as if he is a squirrel.
Recently, Dr Ian Rotherham of Sheffield Hallam University (author of Peat and Peat Cutting) said controlling grey squirrels was “eco-xenophobia”. He said of schemes involving population management “that they resonate with ideas growing with the BNP in the UK, and with other right-wing groups across Europe”.
Anyone that supports the
is an idiot or a traitor. If they are foreign they should be kicked out the country.
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