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> CONservation hooligans Save our Squirrels have jumped on the red
> squirrel gravy train and are desperately seeking traps and funds to
> slaughter grey squirrels, although you wont see that on their website!
>
> http://www.saveoursquirrels.org.uk/
>
> So next time you see a CONservation hooligan begging for money from
> Save our Squirrels remember your money will be spent on killing
> wildlife, not protecting it.

>
> They are working in conjunction with the other well known CONservation
> hooligans Wildlife Trusts who are also known for killing foxes.
> Allowing pro hunt nuts on their lands etc.
>
> Millions of pounds of tax payers money, grants, EU funding and
> donations are being wasted on Nazi style persecutions against wildlife
> that tabletop CONservationists dont approve of.
>
>
> http://www.animalaid.org.uk
> Wildlife
>
> Animal Aid has long been concerned about the growing tendency to
> scapegoat various animal species for the environmental vices and
> excesses of human beings.
>
> Some species are being targeted because they are deemed to interfere
> with modern agricultural or game bird production systems; others,
> because they are regarded as urban pests or health risks.
>
> The prerequisite for any wholesale attempt at species destruction (or
> control) is to demonise the animal in question. This is invariably
> undertaken by exaggerating or simply inventing the negative impact the
> target species has on other, more favoured species, or on the
> livelihood and physical well-being of people.
>
> Animal Aid argues that we must face up to our own shortcomings and
> take constructive action that remedies the damage. Blaming animals is
> both morally obnoxious and self-defeating. It is literally a dead-end
> to imagine that ecological harmony can be restored through the barrel
> of a gun or through the use of body-crushing traps, snares and
> poisons.
>
> Defra squirrel control plan a cynical and vicious scapegoating
> exercise
>
> Todays announcement by the government of a new plan to control grey
> squirrels is condemned by Animal Aid as a cynical and vicious
> exercise in scapegoating.
>
> Biodiversity Minister Jim Knight, in his statement announcing the
> slaughter programme, blames the grey squirrel for damaging woodland,
> for being largely responsible for the decline of the red squirrel in
> England and - a new accusation - threatening dormice. Missing from
> the charge sheet are: starting the Second World War and spawning Al
> Qaeda. But perhaps this will be rectified in subsequent government
> announcements.
>
> The grey squirrel is just one of a number of monster species being
> scapegoated by DEFRA for the environmental and animal welfare vices of
> our own species, says Animal Aid. It is people, notes the national
> campaign group, not squirrels, who have damaged and consumed vast
> tracts of woodland and other wildlife-friendly landscapes. The damage
> to woodland attributed to greys is vastly exaggerated (see Note 1).
> Moreover, most people accept that the animals with whom we share this
> planet will leave their mark in the habitat they occupy.
>
> While grey squirrels are the contemporary villains, the cherished red
> was, for many decades, persecuted by foresters and gamekeepers. They
> used to be known as tree rats and there was a price on their head.
> This is because - like greys - they strip bark and take birds eggs.
> Just one so-called squirrel club in the highlands killed 85,000 reds
> in the first 30 years of the last century.
>
> As well as being hunted, the red was a victim of climate changes,
> disease and woodland destruction. They were already in decline before
> the grey was introduced more than 100 years ago as an ornamental
> species. It is claimed by Jim Knight that the grey transmitted to the
> red the deadly parapox virus. But historical evidence shows that red
> squirrels were dying from parapox virus in very many areas where the
> grey had never been present.
>
> The greys have flourished, says Animal Aid, because they have been
> better able to adapt than the red. They are more sturdy, opportunistic
> and faster at breeding. And while reds are well adapted to a life up
> in the tops of conifer trees feeding on cone seed, the heavier grey is
> a broadleaved woodland specialist. The only chance of survival the
> reds have in Britain, says the campaign group, is to support the
> habitat in which they best thrive.
>
> Jim Knight, in todays statement, stresses the governments commitment
> to humane control. But an approved method of destroying greys is
> through the use of warfarin, a blood-thinning drug, which slowly and
> painfully kills the animals by stopping their blood from coagulating.
> The victims die from internal bleeding.
>
> A destruction method favoured by Red Alert - whose control work is
> lauded by the Biodiversity Minister - is to stuff cage-trapped
> squirrels into sacks and batter them to death (see Note 2). Grey
> squirrels have two litters a year. If the nursing female is captured,
> her helpless young will die slowly from thirst and starvation.
>
> We cannot co-opt and endlessly refashion the natural landscape, says
> Animal Aid, and expect the same animals to survive in the same
> proportions as in the past. They cannot. Killing innocent wildlife in
> an attempt to purge our disappointment is no substitute for facing up
> to reality.
>
> Notes to Editors
> The tree species most vulnerable to bark stripping is beech, and yet
> most of the beech timber crops are turned into chip boards and small
> items like paintbrush handles. Only a small minority of trees are gown
> to full maturity for the luxurious timber trade, where a flaw caused
> decades before by a squirrel stripping bark could be significant in
> terms of value.
>
> Grey Squirrel Control Information , published by The Red Squirrel
> Conservation Partnership - Based at Cumbria Wildlife Trust, Brockhole,
> Cumbria LA23 1LJ .Tel. 015394 48280. Under the heading, Dealing with
> trapped animals, the report states: Captured grey squirrels can be
> humanely despatched by placing the open end of a hessian sack round
> the rear door of the trap. If you are using a trap with a nest box,
> use the front door. Run the squirrel into the sack and manoeuvre it so
> that its head is in the corner then kill with a blow to the head.
>
> See also our special report: Scapegoating the aliens.
>
> http://www.animalaid.org.uk/h/n/CAMPAIGNS/wildlife/ALL/322/
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>Gloria wrote in message
>news:8trqj352ni9g93aphsf8u2fmklchdst6ug@4ax.com...
>> CONservation hooligans Save our Squirrels have jumped on the red
>> squirrel gravy train and are desperately seeking traps and funds to
>> slaughter grey squirrels, although you wont see that on their website!
>>
>> http://www.saveoursquirrels.org.uk/
>>
>> So next time you see a CONservation hooligan begging for money from
>> Save our Squirrels remember your money will be spent on killing
>> wildlife, not protecting it.
>
>You have absolutely no idea what you are talking about, the money will be
>spent on killing vermin!
>

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>Gloria wrote in message
>news:8trqj352ni9g93aphsf8u2fmklchdst6ug@4ax.com...
>> CONservation hooligans Save our Squirrels have jumped on the red
>> squirrel gravy train and are desperately seeking traps and funds to
>> slaughter grey squirrels, although you wont see that on their website!
>>
>> http://www.saveoursquirrels.org.uk/
>>
>> So next time you see a CONservation hooligan begging for money from
>> Save our Squirrels remember your money will be spent on killing
>> wildlife, not protecting it.
>
>You have absolutely no idea what you are talking about, the money will be
>spent on killing vermin!

>>
>> They are working in conjunction with the other well known CONservation
>> hooligans Wildlife Trusts who are also known for killing foxes.
>> Allowing pro hunt nuts on their lands etc.
>>
>> Millions of pounds of tax payers money, grants, EU funding and
>> donations are being wasted on Nazi style persecutions against wildlife
>> that tabletop CONservationists dont approve of.
>>
>>
>> http://www.animalaid.org.uk
>> Wildlife
>>
>> Animal Aid has long been concerned about the growing tendency to
>> scapegoat various animal species for the environmental vices and
>> excesses of human beings.
>>
>> Some species are being targeted because they are deemed to interfere
>> with modern agricultural or game bird production systems; others,
>> because they are regarded as urban pests or health risks.
>>
>> The prerequisite for any wholesale attempt at species destruction (or
>> control) is to demonise the animal in question. This is invariably
>> undertaken by exaggerating or simply inventing the negative impact the
>> target species has on other, more favoured species, or on the
>> livelihood and physical well-being of people.
>>
>> Animal Aid argues that we must face up to our own shortcomings and
>> take constructive action that remedies the damage. Blaming animals is
>> both morally obnoxious and self-defeating. It is literally a dead-end
>> to imagine that ecological harmony can be restored through the barrel
>> of a gun or through the use of body-crushing traps, snares and
>> poisons.
>>
>> Defra squirrel control plan a cynical and vicious scapegoating
>> exercise
>>
>> Todays announcement by the government of a new plan to control grey
>> squirrels is condemned by Animal Aid as a cynical and vicious
>> exercise in scapegoating.
>>
>> Biodiversity Minister Jim Knight, in his statement announcing the
>> slaughter programme, blames the grey squirrel for damaging woodland,
>> for being largely responsible for the decline of the red squirrel in
>> England and - a new accusation - threatening dormice. Missing from
>> the charge sheet are: starting the Second World War and spawning Al
>> Qaeda. But perhaps this will be rectified in subsequent government
>> announcements.
>>
>> The grey squirrel is just one of a number of monster species being
>> scapegoated by DEFRA for the environmental and animal welfare vices of
>> our own species, says Animal Aid. It is people, notes the national
>> campaign group, not squirrels, who have damaged and consumed vast
>> tracts of woodland and other wildlife-friendly landscapes. The damage
>> to woodland attributed to greys is vastly exaggerated (see Note 1).
>> Moreover, most people accept that the animals with whom we share this
>> planet will leave their mark in the habitat they occupy.
>>
>> While grey squirrels are the contemporary villains, the cherished red
>> was, for many decades, persecuted by foresters and gamekeepers. They
>> used to be known as tree rats and there was a price on their head.
>> This is because - like greys - they strip bark and take birds eggs.
>> Just one so-called squirrel club in the highlands killed 85,000 reds
>> in the first 30 years of the last century.
>>
>> As well as being hunted, the red was a victim of climate changes,
>> disease and woodland destruction. They were already in decline before
>> the grey was introduced more than 100 years ago as an ornamental
>> species. It is claimed by Jim Knight that the grey transmitted to the
>> red the deadly parapox virus. But historical evidence shows that red
>> squirrels were dying from parapox virus in very many areas where the
>> grey had never been present.
>>
>> The greys have flourished, says Animal Aid, because they have been
>> better able to adapt than the red. They are more sturdy, opportunistic
>> and faster at breeding. And while reds are well adapted to a life up
>> in the tops of conifer trees feeding on cone seed, the heavier grey is
>> a broadleaved woodland specialist. The only chance of survival the
>> reds have in Britain, says the campaign group, is to support the
>> habitat in which they best thrive.
>>
>> Jim Knight, in todays statement, stresses the governments commitment
>> to humane control. But an approved method of destroying greys is
>> through the use of warfarin, a blood-thinning drug, which slowly and
>> painfully kills the animals by stopping their blood from coagulating.
>> The victims die from internal bleeding.
>>
>> A destruction method favoured by Red Alert - whose control work is
>> lauded by the Biodiversity Minister - is to stuff cage-trapped
>> squirrels into sacks and batter them to death (see Note 2). Grey
>> squirrels have two litters a year. If the nursing female is captured,
>> her helpless young will die slowly from thirst and starvation.
>>
>> We cannot co-opt and endlessly refashion the natural landscape, says
>> Animal Aid, and expect the same animals to survive in the same
>> proportions as in the past. They cannot. Killing innocent wildlife in
>> an attempt to purge our disappointment is no substitute for facing up
>> to reality.
>>
>> Notes to Editors
>> The tree species most vulnerable to bark stripping is beech, and yet
>> most of the beech timber crops are turned into chip boards and small
>> items like paintbrush handles. Only a small minority of trees are gown
>> to full maturity for the luxurious timber trade, where a flaw caused
>> decades before by a squirrel stripping bark could be significant in
>> terms of value.
>>
>> Grey Squirrel Control Information , published by The Red Squirrel
>> Conservation Partnership - Based at Cumbria Wildlife Trust, Brockhole,
>> Cumbria LA23 1LJ .Tel. 015394 48280. Under the heading, Dealing with
>> trapped animals, the report states: Captured grey squirrels can be
>> humanely despatched by placing the open end of a hessian sack round
>> the rear door of the trap. If you are using a trap with a nest box,
>> use the front door. Run the squirrel into the sack and manoeuvre it so
>> that its head is in the corner then kill with a blow to the head.
>>
>> See also our special report: Scapegoating the aliens.
>>
>> http://www.animalaid.org.uk/h/n/CAMPAIGNS/wildlife/ALL/322/
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