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Thursday, February 22, 2007:

Conservation and Environmental News Roundup - 22nd February 

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Reprive for prickly friends!

Updating on a news item reported on 20th February (see below), the remaining Uist hedgehogs will escape death by lethal injection as Scottish Natural Heritage votes unanimously to trial a programme of translocation to the mainland. The decision comes after scientific research disproved the main justification for the cull. Ross Minett of the Uist Hedgehog Rescue Group said "At long last the totally unnecessary killing of these healthy hedgehogs has ended. Whilst the policy change is, of course, welcome, it is disgraceful that it has come too late for the hundreds of hedgehogs already killed by SNH."

Read more: Scottish islands' surviving hedgehogs win a reprieve (Guardian Unlimited)

 
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