hello everyone, a small bit of background, i just saw a segment on "the one show" bbc1's nightly topical show... and they had a segment on about
how the small owl is in decline in the uk and people are working tirelessly to keep it alive in the uk .....
oh, and at the start of the segment, they explained how the small owl was introduced to the uk about 100 years ago ..
this has got me a but annoyed, as we have tried to introduce a species, its not worked, their dying out, now we are working to keep them, yet other
indigenous species in uk are on the decline or not even found in uk any more...
basicly, i wrote this email to their show? its basicly what i woudl post too, so i will just quote it for easyness 
this small owl noncence... i have a question on this topic.
im not sure if your program actualy realises how contradictory it has just been, and that you have wasted a whole segment of licience payers money on
the small owl topic... heres a quote from your own site... (bbc nature)
"Little owls are the smallest British owl and are closely related to the American burrowing owl. They are an introdu
introduced species to the UK, but have been established for more than 100 years."
Now, this clearly states that this species is not even indigenous to the uk, yet (someones) money is being wasted and your show is wasting program on
a species of bird , that is going extinct in this country ... as the bird is NOT indigenous to the uk, my question is ..... why are recorces being
wasted on this, sh
shouldnt they be saving the indigenous squirell species or re introducing wolf's into the wild?
could this please be answered? as it seems very stupid to me.
i doubt they will answer, but can anyone here maybe answer why we should even bother trying to save a species that is not indegenious to this in the
first place!
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