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What can be done to protect Red Squirrel.

  • 03-01-2014 9:12pm
    #1
    thyme
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 553 ✭✭✭


    I found out that the coillte forest beside me is for clearing in 2015, where all the red squirrel's are most of the time, one or two stay in a different wood the other side of me.

    I contacted the local wildlife officer and she came out to have a look and a chat, and she said she would contact the head of the forestry for this area and make him aware that there is red squirrels in the forest.

    So two weeks past and she called me back to say that she contacted that person and made him aware of the squirrels, but she does not have any power to do anything else.

    So I was wondering who has that power to say no, do not cut all the trees down leave some so the squirrels can move from a to b when they want.

    Any ideas anyone.


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  • #2
    Capercaille
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,077 ✭✭✭Capercaille


    thyme wrote: »
    I found out that the coillte forest beside me is for clearing in 2015, where all the red squirrel's are most of the time, one or two stay in a different wood the other side of me.

    I contacted the local wildlife officer and she came out to have a look and a chat, and she said she would contact the head of the forestry for this area and make him aware that there is red squirrels in the forest.

    So two weeks past and she called me back to say that she contacted that person and made him aware of the squirrels, but she does not have any power to do anything else.

    So I was wondering who has that power to say no, do not cut all the trees down leave some so the squirrels can move from a to b when they want.

    Any ideas anyone.
    If the area is to be clearfelled then the red squirrels could be trapped and relocated to nearby suitable forests.


  • #3
    Prodigal Son
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19 ✭Prodigal Son


    Coillte are constantly blowing their own trumpet about their great environmental credentials - why not ask them publicly on twitter or Facebook (preferably both) and ask them to respond - give them the specifics of the area to be felled


  • #4
    thyme
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 553 ✭✭✭thyme


    Capercaille wrote: »
    If the area is to be clearfelled then the red squirrels could be trapped and relocated to nearby suitable forests.

    That would be one way, but then how would I watch out for them and bring them some food, if there taken away from here.

    Prodigal Son wrote: »
    Coillte are constantly blowing their own trumpet about their great environmental credentials - why not ask them publicly on twitter or Facebook (preferably both) and ask them to respond - give them the specifics of the area to be felled

    That's what I thought that coillte were about now, one reply I got was, a sure wont they go some where else.
    I don't do Twitter or Facebook, so that's that out for me.


  • #5
    Prodigal Son
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19 ✭Prodigal Son


    thyme wrote: »
    That would be one way, but then how would I watch out for them and bring them some food, if there taken away from here.




    That's what I thought that coillte were about now, one reply I got was, a sure wont they go some where else.
    I don't do Twitter or Facebook, so that's that out for me.

    Relocation won't necessarily be of any use. If you give me the details, I'll ask them on twitter & Facebook for you


  • #6
    OpenYourEyes
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    Might be worth highlighting to the Irish Wildlife Trust, or maybe see if the Zoology department in NUIG is still researching Red Squirrels - I think they were involved in translocaiton projects a few years back.


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  • #7
    thyme
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 553 ✭✭✭thyme


    Prodigal Son wrote: »
    Relocation won't necessarily be of any use. If you give me the details, I'll ask them on twitter & Facebook for you

    Yeah I can do that, but I'll leave it a day or so.
    OpenYourEyes wrote: »
    Might be worth highlighting to the Irish Wildlife Trust, or maybe see if the Zoology department in NUIG is still researching Red Squirrels - I think they were involved in translocaiton projects a few years back.

    Sent a email to IWT so I'll see what they say if they get the time to read it.
    I was searching the NUIG web site for a while but could not see anything, i'ts probable there somewhere. The woman that was doing the survey on Pine martins & squirrels, I should have her number here somewhere.
    I contacted her some years ago about the reds, I suppose I could give it another go.


  • #8
    Prodigal Son
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19 ✭Prodigal Son


    thyme wrote: »
    Yeah I can do that, but I'll leave it a day or so.



    Sent a email to IWT so I'll see what they say if they get the time to read it.

    I contacted the Native Woodland Trust - they have already come back to me to say if I can provide the site specifics, they'd see what the can do


  • #9
    Woodville56
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,643 ✭✭✭Woodville56


    thyme wrote: »
    Yeah I can do that, but I'll leave it a day or so.



    Sent a email to IWT so I'll see what they say if they get the time to read it.
    I was searching the NUIG web site for a while but could not see anything, i'ts probable there somewhere. The woman that was doing the survey on Pine martins & squirrels, I should have her number here somewhere.
    I contacted her some years ago about the reds, I suppose I could give it another go.

    Dr Emma Sheehy in NUIG was /is involved in Pine Marten & Red Squirrel research . You could try and contact her about these squirrels .


  • #10
    thyme
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 553 ✭✭✭thyme


    Woodville56 wrote: »
    Dr Emma Sheehy in NUIG was /is involved in Pine Marten & Red Squirrel research . You could try and contact her about these squirrels .

    Yeah, I was talking to her before, a couple of years ago she was to try and get here but never did. Got a reply from IWT today and there's nothing they can do, so it's me against Coillte .


  • #11
    Brianmeath
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 259 ✭✭Brianmeath


    thyme wrote: »
    Yeah, I was talking to her before, a couple of years ago she was to try and get here but never did. Got a reply from IWT today and there's nothing they can do, so it's me against Coillte .

    Are they felling all the forestry there?
    Is there no young plantations near or around it?


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  • #12
    whyulittle
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    The Native Woodland Trust will be down in Westmeath this Saturday.

    http://www.nativewoodlandtrust.ie/en/events/eventdetail/53/74/identifying-trees-in-winter-walk

    https://www.facebook.com/nativewoodlandtrust/posts/10152540444182519


  • #13
    thyme
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 553 ✭✭✭thyme


    Brianmeath wrote: »
    Are they felling all the forestry there?
    Is there no young plantations near or around it?

    Yes they are felling all of the old part, and thinning the rest which is not very big.
    There was another forest not far from here, but that's gone a couple of years now.
    whyulittle wrote: »
    The Native Woodland Trust will be down in Westmeath this Saturday.

    http://www.nativewoodlandtrust.ie/en/events/eventdetail/53/74/identifying-trees-in-winter-walk

    https://www.facebook.com/nativewoodlandtrust/posts/10152540444182519

    Thanks for that, I see it's on Saturday which is a bad day for me to get away, and it's only a few minutes away.


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