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"Des Higgins" writes:
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| The millions of years bit was for dramtic effect; point taken.
| I was just pointing out how bad it is to refer to letting grey squirrels run
| riot or to not control rhodondrons or sycamores as evolution.
| Evolution has been used and misused to make dubious political statements
| many times and this was one.

What we need is some beech martens to control the grey squirrels :-)

On a global scale, whether we worry about any of those three species
or not is pretty irrelevant - the UK's ecology is as artificial as
they get, and all of those three species are very close to ones that
are native to Europe. And we need lynx to control the deer!


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.