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Red Squirrel
Your edit contained no sourcing information. Please only make edits of this nature when you can cite verifiable and reliable sources. Minor edits for cleanup can be made without a citation, but any edit that changes or adds new information really should have a source citation. - UtherSRG (talk) 16:51, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

Your edit on this subject is interesting, but you need to provide citations (see WP:CITE). Feel free to ask me (click on 'Talk' in the signature that follows) if you need any assistance. Ben MacDuiTalk /  Walk  17:00, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

My edit is based on personal experience gained from 4+ years on the Anglesey Red Squirrel Project. I feel that it adds useful information to the article. The Anglesey Project has spawned a lot of similar projects around the country, and has been watched closely by the Italians as well. Without the achievements on Anglesey, many more red squirrel populations would have been left undefended. Unless the lessons learned on Anglesey are followed, the chances of saving red squirrels are slim. Giving the impression that poor management of habitat is as important as grey squirrel competition in the decline of the red squirrel is misleading. The article also makes out that there is a mass culling programme in the UK; there isn't. As far as I am aware, the Squirrel Pox virus ALWAYS kills red squirrels, unless they are treated with antibiotics. My addition of information on the cessation of breeding by the red squirrel when in competition with the grey squirrel is from personal experience on Anglesey, where this is indeed what happened - as you would expect. My addition to the pine marten information put it into a UK context, as the pine marten is itself rare or absent throughout most of the UK. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wildlife Ranger (talk • contribs)


 * Your personal knowledge is not relevant. Please only make edits of this nature when you can cite verifiable and reliable sources. - UtherSRG (talk) 03:39, 28 January 2008 (UTC)