Save our Squirrels

The grey squirrel is regarded as an invasive non-native species and has no protection under the WCA. They are listed in the IUCN international list of 100 worst invasive non-native species, which highlights the damage that grey squirrels cause to our native flora and fauna; a problem severe enough to be recognised at a level of global significance. It is also illegal to release a grey squirrel into the wild, or allow one to escape.

I've watched with great interest and dismay the many news stories claiming that the grey squirrel are "aliens" to the United Kingdom, and killers of the red squirrels.

I feel it is my duty to try to dispel these myths and show that a lot of the "scientific evidence" quoted by conservation groups, and even government organisations, is based on a political desire to attain an idealistic version of nativeness, rather than a sensible realisation that humans are part of the environment, like the squirrels and can all live together in peace. When you look in depth at what these organisations are saying, you find that even their definition of being "native" is quite questionable.

...it is the grey squirrels very lives which hang in the balance!
While squirels get on very well with humans, and have been very well able to adapt to the changes they have brought about in the UK, the poor red squirrels have been less fortunate. Conservation groups are very keen to encourage the planting of "native" deciduous trees which just happen to be the kind of habitat they love to live in. In doing so, the many conifer woodlands once all over the UK have been decimated, and the Red Squirrels have been the unfortunate victims.

Grey Squirrels are also blamed for the poxvirus which is currently spreading through the Red Squirrel population. Having done extensive research, we have found that this virus also affected the grey squirrels population many generations ago, but those who survived developed antibodies which protect them. The Red Squirrels are in a similar position now, and provided humans give them a chance by not removing their habitat, a good percentage might well survive and be immune. This is the way that nature works!

So what is at stake? Well, if these conservation groups get their way, it is the grey squirrels very lives which hang in the balance! Cruel people are employed to "control" them, which means one of the following methods of killing them:

Shooting them in trees, while damaging the very trees they're often so concerned about

Poisoning them with Warfarin - a nasty chemical which causes there blood to go thin and they bleed out of there eyes, ears, nose, mouth and other places I'd rather not mention

Trapping them in cages, and then putting a bag over the end of the cage, so when they get chased into it, and can be bludgeoned to death.

All of these methods of "controlling" us are termed as "humane" - we call it murder