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  From todays Mail - 3 June
  
  Dogs should be killed to protect Britain's bluebells according to feminist Germaine Greer who blames the pets for killing the woodland flowers.
  
  The outspoken academic told the Hay on Wye literary festival that dog owners walking their pets through bluebells are killing off a fungus necessary for them to grow.
  Professor Greer, who owns a one-acre bluebell wood in Essex, said that mycorrhiza fungi is being killed off by dogs' faeces.
  
  She also said the British bluebell is under threat from a Spanish variety of the plant.
  'But the real threat to our bluebells is not a foreign invader,' she said. 'It is the use we make of the woodlands, people running through them, taking photos of each other standing on trampled bluebells.
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  And, at the risk of making you all very cross, may I suggest it is also time that the British gave up on their endless love affair with the dog.
  'Even the most proactive woodland organisations like the Woodland Trust do not dare to say to dog walkers - who are about the only people who care about our woods - that they may not bring their dogs into the woods

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