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Wed 01 Jan 2010Gun clubs compete in squirrel cull
GUN CLUBS throughout the country have been participating in a scheme to shoot “alien” grey squirrels which are blamed for the catastrophic decline in the population of native red squirrels.
The forestry service of the Department of Agriculture last year sponsored a prize fund as part of its efforts to cull a species which is also blamed for causing damage to trees by stripping the bark from saplings.
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