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Originally Posted by charlieb  The rabbit has been in Britain for a few hundred years - our indigenous fauna has survived for much longer without it. |
That wasn't exactly the point I was purporting charlieb, rather that we perhaps ought to see equal value in all present species, even if the role of that 'pest' species is to provide food for those species that we meantime appear to value more.
It's always somewhat unrealistic I feel, to want to 'freeze time' at some abritary point in deciding what is or isn't indigenous or native. For me, 'native' simply means it was born here ... that's good enough for me to value and tolerate its presence.
Ecosystems tend to evolve and develop naturally over time ... we only mess things up even further when we try too hard to correct the mistakes we've made earlier.