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Environment

Conservation = racism?

By Robert H Olley in Beamlines
January 26, 2009

I read this in today's Daily Telegraph:

Campaigns to protect native species 'are racist'

Have a read(LINK), and don't you think he is carrying things too far?  Although I have heard groundsmen referring to the grubbing up specimens of the invasive Acer pseudoplatanus, usually called the "sycamore", as "ethnic cleansing".

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