If harm to native wildlife is the main concern then there are much bigger targets for control than grey squirrels.
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The NSW government has announced plans to remove feral deer from its list of official game animals. With careful monitoring, the resulting free-for-all could help curb their booming numbers.
They swim, they eat, they multiply.
The plan to kill 2 million feral cats nationwide by 2020 makes for good headlines. But it's also a simplistic goal that won't necessarily deliver conservation benefits to native species.
Fox hunting has been banned in the UK since 2004 – so why is it still happening?
Wild boars are being scapegoated for an epidemic of African swine flu that threatens the pork industry.
The return of white sharks to Cape Cod, Massachusetts was a tourism success story – until a shark killed a swimmer. Can the Cape's residents and visitors learn to share the ocean with these apex predators?
The poisoning of dozens of wedge-tailed hawks in Victoria could affect the entire wild population.
Failing to cull feral horses in Kosciuszko National Park may end up promoting environmental destruction while actually increasing the horses' suffering.
A reserve near Amsterdam lost many wild cattle and deer over the tough winter, leading to public protests. Yet this was a failure of Dutch politics rather than rewilding itself.
Grey squirrels have lots of attractive characteristics, yet they are actively persecuted by humankind.
What's the answer? Fight or flight?
Queensland premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has offered to extend the state's shark netting and drum lines into New South Wales.
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Professor in Terrestrial Ecology, Deakin University
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Ecologist, Edinburgh Napier University
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Associate Professor in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Centre for Integrative Ecology, School of Life & Environmental Sciences, Deakin University
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Lecturer, University of Sydney
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Associate professor/ARC DECRA fellow, Charles Sturt University
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Alfred Deakin Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Deakin University
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Associate Professor in Marine Ecology, Macquarie University
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Course Director, MSc Biodiversity, Conservation and Management, University of Oxford
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Senior Lecturer, Nottingham Trent University
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Associate Professor, Ecology, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Associate Professor of Ecology, Western Sydney University
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Senior Lecturer in Behavioural Ecology, Nottingham Trent University
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Associate Professor of Anthropology and Marine Affairs, University of Rhode Island
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PhD Researcher, International Environmental Governance, Keele University
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Ornithology, Murdoch University
