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THIS IS A GOOD ARTICLE THAT GETS INTO THE MINDS OF PEOPLE WHO LOVE SOME ANIMALS BUT WANT TO VICIOUSLY EXTERMINATE OTHERS DUE TO A FAILURE TO UNDERSTAND THAT NATURE IS DYNAMIC AND NEVER STATIC – ESPECIALLY IN THIS AGE OF CLIMATE CHANGE, IN WHICH SPECIES WIL BE SHUFFLED FROM SOUTH TO NORTH AND EAST TO WEST. “An epoch of human globalisation is mixing up species like never before. It has also created a new academic field, invasion biology, which examines how some non-native animals and plants (such as rats and Japanese knotweed) wreak havoc in new settings, spreading disease or out-competing native flora and fauna. Some consider the grey squirrel one of these ‘alien’ invaders imperilling the red. But is its slaughter a futile expression of nativist xenophobia? And is it ever ethical to target one species for destruction, in order to conserve another?”
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jun/02/kill-them-the-volunteer-army-plotting-to-wipe-out-britains-grey-squirrels?CMP=share_btn_fb