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"en.20120420.7.5-076-000"2
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"Madam President, diversity is an emotively favourable word and, of course, we are all in favour of it, but unfortunately, we mean different things by it. I have a book on British wild animals from 1947 which welcomed the addition of the grey squirrel to British wildlife in the interests of diversity. I have some good news for the writer of the book and for the grey squirrel: it is to be found everywhere in Britain now.
For the red squirrel, I have some less welcome news: your habitats have been taken and you will soon be extinct. Now there are some people in Britain who defend the grey squirrel, saying it was born and brought up in Britain and would have a British passport if squirrels had passports – indeed it is not really a grey squirrel at all but simply a native red squirrel which happens to have grey fur.
1947 was only 65 years ago, yet the squirrel population has undergone such enormous changes, and the human population of Britain has also changed enormously. This just shows how the wrong kind of diversity can lead very quickly to the displacement of native populations."@en1
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