{"id":695043,"date":"2026-07-16T15:28:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T15:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/695043\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T15:28:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T15:28:11","slug":"complete-extermination-of-greys-the-only-way-to-protect-red-squirrels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/695043\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Complete extermination&#8217; of greys the only way to protect red squirrels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Complete extermination is the only way currently that we can preserve our native red squirrel,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Unfortunately there is no other answer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;As long as the grey squirrel remains it will carry the pox virus which is fatal to our native red.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said he understood people might think it was a step too far but they could only follow &#8220;scientific evidence&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The elimination of the greys, it&#8217;s done in a humane manner and it alleviates the threat to the reds,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He urged estate owners to &#8220;do their bit&#8221; by controlling greys and also the public to take down any bird feeders being used by reds and greys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;Complete extermination is the only way currently that we can preserve our native red squirrel,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Unfortunately&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":695044,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-695043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=695043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/695044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}