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Experts Mull Plan to Save Red Squirrel
Topic Started: Dec 16 2006, 05:44 AM (48 Views)
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Experts Mull Plan to Save Red Squirrel
By Associated Press
BEN McCONVILLE

EDINBURGH, Scotland

Like U.S. GIs during World War II, they're ''oversexed and over here.'' The gray squirrel — introduced to Britain from the United States in the 19th century — is now overrunning the countryside, out-breeding and out-eating its smaller British cousin, the red squirrel.

Conservationists said Monday they plan to test a contraception program in an effort to protect the indigenous species — who number only 160,000 — from the gray squirrels, 3 million strong and rising.

Scientists are experimenting with a ''fertility control agent'' used successfully in the U.S. and now being tried on a range of species, said a spokesman for the Scottish Executive, which is co-funding the research with the British government and the Forestry Commission.

Under the pilot project, contraceptives could be administered either in food or by injection.

http://www.happynews.com/news/12122006/exp...ed-squirrel.htm
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