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Roughly seven years ago, Thompson Rivers University professor Karl Larsen warned the City of Kelowna of the devastation caused to native red squirrels by the invasive Eastern grey ones.

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Moving up from the West Coast, the grey squirrels can be spotted in nearly every park in the Central Okanagan.

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As they aren香蕉视频直播檛 territorial, grey squirrels move into areas where native red squirrels live. The red squirrels are forced out of their habitat as the larger squirrels move in.

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Bruce Smith, communications officer with the Regional District of the Central Okanagan, said nothing has been done because the squirrels haven香蕉视频直播檛 posed a problem.

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The regional district doesn香蕉视频直播檛 have a specific threshold on when to decide to intervene, but if it starts to notice a problem, it will be addressed, Smith said.

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