Derek Mooney

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989 appearances 18 recordings 3 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 2d ago

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Mooney Goes Wild · Should We Cull Invasive Alien Grey Squirrels To Save Our Native Reds? · 29 Jun 2026 podcast

And particularly, for example, if there is a grey squirrel and that is the last few remaining grey squirrels are trap shy.

Right.

So it's really hard to get them to enter into a trap and there's very little else that you can do.

And so a lot of effort goes.

And I don't think it's that I think it's more personality.

You think so?

Yeah.

So at the end, like those that are more cautious are the ones that survive.

From Aberdeen?

Start to finish.

Yeah, start to finish.

Well, again, they haven't declared eradication yet.

So but we're now in 2026 and the project started at a smaller scale without the aim of eradication in 2009.

Yeah, so they're in the central belt and moving up the east coast.

So that was something else that was put in place when, you know, we decided to or the project decided to go for eradication in Aberdeen was ensuring then biosecurity really would be the term that you would use.

So preventing immigration from further south.

So there's a landscape scale project that is monitoring red and grey squirrel distribution and then swiftly removing any grey squirrels as they're coming up.

And that has been so successful that the team that are doing that are now actually pushing the kind of the frontier of the grey squirrel population south in Scotland.

So...

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