Re: Unambiguous definition?

On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 18:52:59 +0000 (GMT), Robert Seago
<rjseago@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In article <u8bap31d2epeari5g71e801i0h3sf3nri2@xxxxxxx>,
<amacmil304@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Anyone care to give an unambiguous definition of "native species"?


Conventionally, species native to the UK are regarded as those that have
arrived here since the last ice age without human assistance.

This is the generally accepted convention.

The rationale behind it, and the reason that I concur with it is that, the
heritage in Britain that we have is composed of species which have been
selected for our environment, that is our climates, soils and land use.

I thought that's what it might be . So what about those (re)introduced
from foreign countries by so-called conservationists with different
climates, soils and land use? Red squirrel and beavers for instance.


Many species which we love such as Rabbit, Brown Rat, Brown Hare, Fallow
deer etc. do not fall into this category, and few conservationists would
wish to eradicate these species, with the possible exception of the Brown
Rat in some cases.

You don't "love" them if you kill them.


Angus Macmillan
www.roots-of-blood.org.uk
www.killhunting.org
www.con-servation.org.uk

All truth passes through three stages:
First, it is ridiculed;
Second, it is violently opposed; and
Third, it is accepted as self-evident.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)
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