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We live on about 3% of the land. More Priti Pythogoras maths.
Asylum seekers accommodation - Did I hear these numbers correctly?
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We live on about 3% of the land. More Priti Pythogoras maths.
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Yep, full to bursting, also likely why we have a higher covid rate, overcrowded cities.
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There’s a place we sometimes go to walk our dogs on the beach, Mersea Island, that imported some Red squirrels about 10 years ago. Hardly any grey ones there now and if they see any, they are trapped and released on the mainland.
Really? I thought it was illegal to release a grey after it had been caught. Or are they released into a nice orchard in the countryside where there's lots of things for them to play with...?
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Yes, it is illegal to release a trapped grey. You can shoot them and eat them though, but one needs to be cautious as to when you do that, as they are routinely poisoned.
I think it’s all agreed in a programme to reintroduce reds to Mersea. A friend of my wife is a wildlife nut and dragged my wife and another friend to a red squirrel talk a year or so ago. Bored the tits off of them and they got the giggles. Had to leave early!
Edit: You’re probably right - they must catch 'em and kill 'em then. Looks like they swim over from the mainland. http://merseawildlife.blogspot.com/2018/06/grey-invader.html
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That explains what a friend living there keeps posting pictures of red squirrels on Facebook.
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we need the rest of the land to produce food, in fact we have so little farm land we produce less than half the calories we consume.
The UKs land and seas is only capable of supporting about 20 million people in a long term sustainable manner
https://www.footprintnetwork.org/our-work/ecological-footprint/
The UK is stupidly overcrowded and the last thing we need is more people.
Only 6% of the UK is developed.
The UK grows 61% of the food it eats, according to the National Farming Union (NFU),Tim Lang, Professor of Food Policy at City, University of London, and DEFRA’s Agriculture in the UK paper (July 2017).
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Maybe food doesn't equal calories? No idea about the figures TBF.
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And another post where you don't actually respond with any sense.
There's nothing in those links which disagree with what I wrote.
https://www.animalaid.org.uk/myth-busters-grey-squirrels/
http://i-csrs.com/red-squirrels-decline
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The quote is from a study cited by the BEEB entitled, 'Can UK feed itself?', or some such.
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