"Anthony E Anson" wrote in message
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from "BAC" contains these words:

I sympathise with the waders. Hedgehogs in the wrong place are pests,
and the Outer Hebrides is the wrong place.


Which is why the Hedgehog Welfare Charities are trying to remove them.
It is
SNH's insistence on killing the hedgehogs they capture, rather than
handing
them over for relocation, which is the root of the problem.

I'm quite in sympathy with that aim, though that in itself presents
welfare (and possibly fatal) problems for the urchins.


Organisations like St Tiggywinkles and the BHPT are not in the business of
deliberate or reckless torture of hedgehogs, and have many years practical
experience in the rehabilitation and release of hedgehogs. If they feel the
translocation project is feasible, and their membership and the public is
prepared to fund it, I see no good reason why SNH should deny them the
opportunity.

The Uist Wader Group's recommendation was that there should have been a
pilot 'official' translocation scheme this year, to test survival of
translocated specimens, but, for some unknown reason, SNH decided to avoid
testing their pessimistic theories, and to press on with killing all the
animals they captured.