User talk:JohnAckerman

I now live in Australia. In 1992 I visited a village called Blackmore in Essex,England. It is an area where I spent my childhood. I was looking through some old books. One of these included information about the introduction of the grey squirrel to the United Kingdom.

This was a release of four pairs of grey squirrels in the early twenties by the London Zoo. They were very proud of this release and envisaged a time when people would be able to see the native red squirrel and the grey squirrel living side by side.

I saw many red squirrels as a child in Epping Forest and now that they are gone it is clear that this introduction was an ecological disaster. I thought that the origin of the experiment should be recorded.

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