During the January trip to Florida, Jack and I ended up telling Thurston about the plight of the indigenous British red squirrel in the face of the imported American grey squirrel. We'd started talking about this during a discussion of what would actually make an appropriate emblem for Britain in the world today, and the squirrel seemed to sum up the tragi-comedy of the whole thing.
Well, I decided to do a quick search on what's being done to help our little fellas, and the craziness of the interweb didn't disappoint me. It turns out that since 1991 there's been an anonymous email address advertised, offering to whack any offending grey squirrels for you (squirrelproblem@airriflehunter.co.uk) and a website that helpfully mentions that a conservation group, the Esme Kirby Trust, is willing to pay you for 'scalps'.
There is to be no mention of kite marks here
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