Experts worried about Squirrel Pox

[Riadach]

Racoons are another american species creating havoc for native wildlife arcross Europe - unfortunatly one was seen recently in West Cork



PS: Introduction of non-native species is now a major factor in the decline and disappearence of an increasing number of rare and endangered animals in their native lands

Like us you mean?

[corporal punishment]

Where if you don't mind me asking....

The road betwen Midleton and Lisgoold village. It's pretty heavily forrested. I also saw one before christmas in my mother in laws front garden in Leamlara. I think it lives in a large sycamore that's on the edge of her property.

[Desperate Dan]

We hear a lot in this forum about the fate of Irelands bird population.

Are there any organisations besides NPW who work to support the welfare of our mammal population?

Its those Wicklow sheep farmers, they are fed up with the sheep. They could have gone for something bigger.
Then again different strokes?.

[Clanrickard]

You must admit Racoons are a lot more entertaining, cuter and resourceful than most of our native species, who are simply a bit dull, .

[Bonsai Experiment]

Simple answer.. don't ride a squirrel and you'll be all right

dam those Grey Squirrels and Wookies.

[Expatriot]

Is there some way that we can link this back the to bank guarantee?

[ShoutingIsLeadership]

At this stage, bar a nationwide extermination campaign aimed at the greys , the poor red squirrel has a poor prognosis.

Its a shame, I still remember the first time i saw one in the Wicklow mountains. Hopefully future generations will have that pleasure too.

I saw my first beaver in the Wicklow mountains. It wasn't red.

[The Field Marshal]

We hear a lot in this forum about the fate of Irelands bird population.

Are there any organisations besides NPW who work to support the welfare of our mammal population?

So according to "wildlife experts" the grey squirrel is infecting the red quirrel with the pox.

If this "scientific" assessment is anything like the so called scientific assessment on global warming then the red squirrel population should do just fine.

[Aubrey_Plover]

i) Entice / trick / cajole / threaten them (grey yankee vermin) into one place and put a small nuke on the critters. On the casing of the nukie some well meaning epitaph from the long suffering souls of Nagasaki and Hiroshima.

ii) Cremate them

iii) Send them back to where they belong on one of the gringo transports via Shannon.


Never know, might work.

A.

[Pat Gill]

So according to "wildlife experts" the grey squirrel is infecting the red quirrel with the pox.

If this "scientific" assessment is anything like the so called scientific assessment on global warming then the red squirrel population should do just fine.

I see that the eco-babble thread has been consigned to the zoo again FM thats a pity as I had been convinced by the evidence presented to change my whole worldview.

I have sent an email to Met Eireann requesting that henceforth the weather forecasters should use the Kelvin scale for temperature and refer to the Sun as the closest stellar object.

I am now a believer FM.