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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jos Stratford" data-source="post: 1453288" data-attributes="member: 12449">Safe in the knowledge that for someone to meet your very exacting requirements, they would have to do the impossible. To study the impact on a population, they would need to look at interactions where they do occur together already, ie across the rest of their range (logically), but you have already dismissed this as invalid.Huge connection. A lack of understanding predator-prey relationships crosses threads. Since your stand on the culling of Eagle Owls (and blanket desire to cull every other non-native) is based only on a belief on your part that they maybe or could be bad, (ie far removed from actual conservation benefit), I would immediately have reason to question your reasons for culling of native species. However, for the sake of this thread, let's agree to differ on this..</blockquote>