FabSwingers.com forum: Red Squirrel Dilemma

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 *ris GrayMan
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

Red squirrels are endangered. Leave the tree alone and let them live.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"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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By *ris GrayMan
over a year ago

Dorchester

"Red squirrels are endangered. Leave the tree alone and let them live. "
Red squirrels are indigenous to Canada are they not?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I love a bit of squirrel pie

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By *atisfy janeWoman
over a year ago

Torquay

Red squirrels were almost extinct in England and Scotland long before the Grey was imported.

Only thousands of imported Reds from Finland saved the day for the Red.

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By *osaint1971Couple
over a year ago

Near Taunton

Love red squirrels and lots of others do. Everyone who cares can chip in amd buy the forest from him for market value plus 10%. No reason why everyone can't win here.

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By *odgerMooreMan
over a year ago

Carlisle

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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By *hePerkyPumpkinTV/TS
over a year ago

Bristol

Well the Red Squirrel is protected, so as long as they are there the trees can't be cut down.

Farmer should have thought this through before planting all those trees.

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By *wisted999Man
over a year ago

North Bucks

Compensate the farmer the value of the cash crop and let them live in peace.

A crowd funder among the conservation types would pay many times over

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
over a year ago

The Town by The Cross

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

Belfast

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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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Nice bit of squirrel

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The trees were planted on a farm as a crop so its reasonable to expect them to be felled at some point.

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
over a year ago

The Town by The Cross

"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.

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By *ecadent_DevonMan
over a year ago

Okehampton

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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By *odgerMooreMan
over a year ago

Carlisle

"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 *andyfloss2000Woman
over a year ago

ashford

Leave the trees for the squirrels! X

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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)
over a year ago

"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

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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By *ssex_tom OP Man
over a year ago

Chelmsford

We need a legal beagle here. Farmer does not want to kill the red squirrels. He only wants to chop down his own trees... Surely these squirrels can find another set of trees

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By *ssex_tom OP Man
over a year ago

Chelmsford

"To be fair to the farmer, (I did actually manage to find the article buried deep in the bowells of the BBC News website)"

Tom does not make this stuff up...

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By *icassolifelikeMan
over a year ago

Luton

"Nice bit of squirrel"

Lovely Jackie. Come on boys eat up.

RIP

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