TRAPPING FOR SUCCESS

Within the sphere of wildlife management it's always beneficial to go about it with a diversity of methods. Whatever approach you initially set out with there is a good chance your target quarry will soon clock on to what is happening around them.

In Britain we have several invasive species that have thrived since their release from captivity over the last few centuries, notably the grey squirrel, muntjac and sika deer. Not all non-native species do succeed following their liberation. As recently as 2009 wallabies were sighted within the Staffordshire Moorlands, descendants of five escapees from a local wildlife park in the 1930s, but now believed gone for a variety of reasons. Unless animals adapt to their environment and the human populations around them, they will not survive.

The grey squirrel is asurvivor, and under sustained persecution since its arrival on these shores from its native North America