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By *ssex_tom OP Man
over a year ago
Chelmsford |
A farmer from a place in Northern Ireland planted a spruce tree cash crop in the 90s and they are ready to be filled for you got it.. cash.
Now the red squirrels happily live there and the Red Squirrel Campaigners want the felling to stop..
What should happen?
It's all over the news. |
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By *TG3Man
over a year ago
Dorchester |
"A farmer from a place in Northern Ireland planted a spruce tree cash crop in the 90s and they are ready to be filled for you got it.. cash.
Now the red squirrels happily live there and the Red Squirrel Campaigners want the felling to stop..
What should happen?
It's all over the news."
Doesn't make sense Tom  |
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By *ssex_tom OP Man
over a year ago
Chelmsford |
"A farmer from a place in Northern Ireland planted a spruce tree cash crop in the 90s and they are ready to be filled for you got it.. cash.
Now the red squirrels happily live there and the Red Squirrel Campaigners want the felling to stop..
What should happen?
It's all over the news.Doesn't make sense Tom "
Felled not filled  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Doesn't make sense Tom "
Not a lot of his posts do 
The Red Squirrel is a protected species. The population was decimated following the introduction to the UK of the Grey Squirrel from the United states in the 1870's
The owners of this Tree farm might want to check up on the legal position as they could well find themselves in very hot water |
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The issue is that the grey squirrels are much bigger - what we need to do is start training the red squirrels in martial arts as that could significantly swing the balance of power back their way. A grey squirrel comes up and says - give us yer nuts ya ginger twat at which point the red squirrel delivers 3 to 4 deadly strikes against the much larger squirrel who stunned falls from the tree to his death - word goes round the grey squirrel community that this has happened and they decide to leave our shores and head back to America… problem solved   |
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Two ideas.......
1. Charge the squirrels back rent.
2. Whoever is trying to slap a ban on the farmer felling the trees should pay , not only for his loss on this crop but for all future crops ..... simple.
That's what it would cost to keep the squirrels happy ... |
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By *.T.Man
over a year ago
Glasgow |
Maybe he should apply for National Lottery funding for a Red Squirrel Sanctuary?
Squirrels get protected, he's not out of pocket. Not the daftest thing Lottery money has been used for? |
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He should just apply for a countryside stewardship grant and have money in perpetuity rather than a lump sump. He invested in trees and he got squirrels as a return on that investment.
I have spoken to the squirrels and they have said they will share their nuts if he doesn’t evict them. |
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"The trees were planted on a farm as a crop so its reasonable to expect them to be felled at some point.
Fair point but squirrels are so unreasonable. "
I know - one of them beat up Chuck Norris for looking at him!!! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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To be fair to the farmer, (I did actually manage to find the article buried deep in the bowells of the BBC News website) he and his team have taken all due dilligence to ensure no Squirrels are disturbed when felling, so the 'outrage' - if we can call it that - is really a concern about loss of habitat |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"To be fair to the farmer, (I did actually manage to find the article buried deep in the bowells of the BBC News website) he and his team have taken all due dilligence to ensure no Squirrels are disturbed when felling, so the 'outrage' - if we can call it that - is really a concern about loss of habitat"
I'd imagine the bloke is only trying to make a living. I mean it's all well and good if a bunch of bat's, or squirrels rock up to make a home in your loft. But if you're the poor twat stuck with them it's not so great I'd guess  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Everyone fawning over red squirrels is understandable.
However, every tree felled counts as habitat loss for some animal or another, and does it really matter how endangered it is, when it's still a sentient being?
The squirrels should be saved, but humans generally consume too much of everything, and we're all partly responsible for creating the demand. |
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