It looks like the displacement slowed down, but there’s 55 years between the first and second picture, and only 10 between the second and third.
We are in 2010 AD. All Wales is occupied by the Grey Squirrels. All? No! Because an island populated by irreducible Red Squirrels still resists the invader.
Anglesey is beautiful and if you ever end up in north Wales (if you do I’m sorry for your loss) then you should visit it
My my how the turntables
What do you mean? Wales has a long history of getting invaded. First by the Romans, then by the English and now by the Grey Sqirrels.
About high time they experience getting colonized
Coming over here, chewing on our nuts!
I have no background on this, but assuming it’s called as such because it came from north america, how was it introduced? Via ships like rats?
In 1876 a Victorian banker “decided to release into the wild a pair of grey squirrels he had brought back with him from a business trip to America. Other landowners, viewing the non-native species as a fashionable garden novelty, soon followed suit.”
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2012/sep/05/red-grey-squirrels-cornwall
This isn’t a map of the UK, strictly speaking, because it includes ROI and Mann.
*a map of the British Isles
Ah, why are the black squirrels not mapped? They are slowly taking over from the greys apparently.
Anglesey is doing something right
interesting, guess the greys are filling the same niche.
ah, that, and bringing their diseases.
fINALLY BRINGING dEMOCRACY TO WHERE IT NEEDS TO Be.
