Britain put on high RACCOON alert: US mammal could become a pest and devastate native wildlife, expert warns

• Dr Niall Moore, head of the invasive species secretariat for Defra, said there was a real threat that raccoons could become a pest in this country
  
• There are thought to be a handful of raccoons on the loose in the UK – but the danger is that they will breed and establish themselves 
  

ALLAKAKA wrote:

• Dr Niall Moore, head of the invasive species secretariat for Defra, said there was a real threat that raccoons could become a pest in this country
  
• There are thought to be a handful of raccoons on the loose in the UK – but the danger is that they will breed and establish themselves 
  

By Colin Fernandez for the Daily Mail
Published: 16:52, 9 September 2015  | Updated: 18:32, 9 September 2015


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3228041/Britain-high-RACCOON-alert-mammal-pest-devastate-native-wildlife-expert-warns.html#ixzz3lGzQIf5p
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 Wrong sort of Coons ?

wyatt1 wrote:
Anything to take attention away from the real pests.

Flap Zappa wrote:put a bounty on them and they will be gone very quickly