Scotland Invaded!
– – Scotland has been overrun by vicious invaders, and their goal is to kill them all! Once the invaders are driven out of Scotland, plans are to drive them out of the whole of Britain.
Now this isn’t a William Wallace thing and Mel Gibson is nowhere to be seen, but it’s rather a campaign against American minks brought to Britain in the 1950’s to be farmed for fur coats. Now running wild by the tens of thousands, the minks are wrecking havoc on other native species, including birds, fish, frogs, and the beloved water vole! About 95% of the water voles are gone, thanks in large measure to the minks. Scottish novelist Kenneth Grahame used a water vole named Ratty as a main character in his children’s book, The Wind in the Willows.
Considered an invasive species, the minks are usually trapped and then shot. While this sounds cruel, the Scottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals says the process is humane and necessary in order to protect Scotland’s ecosystem. To quote Ratty the water vole, “It’s my world. I don’t want any other.”
Tags: American minks in Scotland, invasive species
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FOXSYLVANIA 
February 26, 2011 at 5:44 pm
It sounds very similar to the perpetual open season on other invasive critters. Like the Australian rabbit; the Russian raccoon; the Netherland muskrat; the Jamaican and Hawaiian mongoose; and the Louisiana coypu (to name only a few).
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