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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ColonelBlimp" data-source="post: 1446965" data-attributes="member: 63179">Of course it's conjecture-without any kind of paper specifically dealing with this situation in Britain any consideration will be conjectural. Naturally that's factually incorrect-when taken out of context. That remark was said in the context of a future situation where this has been proved to be the case at least in part, however improbable that might be. As for the non-native bit, these owls have most likely not been in Britain for geological timescales, i.e. since islandisation, so for Britain, if not to the harriers as a species, they are to all intensive purposes non-native. But there's a difference between targeting invasive species and predators in general! I would still be against a little fluffy invasive species if it was causing harm, as well as big swoopy ones. That remark again was intentionally one-sided and antagonistic, in response to the shilly-shallying over invasive species that leads to their expansion. If we had adopted this policy in the past, how much easier it would have been for example, and how much less damaging to the ecology over the period, and even how much more humane, to only have had to shoot 2 grey squirrels!!!</blockquote>