Hedgehogs were let go in a South Uist garden in 1974 to deal with the slugs, by 2010 there were 3,900 of them on the islands eating wader eggs, a trial at Drimore lifted 64 out in eight weeks, and clearing the last 400 sq km is costed at 3.5 to 5.0 million pounds and 18 staff.
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In 1974, someone on South Uist, an island in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides, released seven hedgehogs into a domestic garden hoping they would eat the slugs and snails destroying the vegetable patch. According to NatureScot’s account of the episode, that small, well-intentioned act set off five decades of ecological disruption, a scientific controversy over killing versus relocating wild animals, and a conservation program now projected to cost several million pounds before it is finished
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