The Forestry Commission has drawn up plans obliging landowners to rid their estates of grey squirrels
11:02PM GMT 03 Jan 2015
Landowners are to be paid millions of pounds of public money to cull grey squirrels under the first national plan for managing their numbers.
Under the scheme, designed to protect red squirrels and woodland, only those who agree to deal with the animals on their land will be eligible for forestry grants from the Government or European Union.
But they will be able to apply for funding of £100 per hectare per year for five years to help them cull the squirrels using whatever method they prefer.
The money could be used to buy warfarin to poison them, or for buying traps so they can be trapped and shot.
There will also be Government funding available to help neighbouring landowners cooperate to control grey squirrel numbers together.
Tens of thousands of grey squirrels could be culled each year under the new plans, which will be set in motion this month.
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