Rewilding

Posted on 23/10/2019 20:44 by ABM

 Mickysf

  Please study my first reply to Corners Especially the first sentence.

Nowhere there did I mention Top predators or similar.

I only used wolves / lynx in Scotland as an example --  It could easily have been  brown trout in chalk streams or various butterflies over the Downs.

Posted on 23/10/2019 16:44 by ABM

Rewilding, Corners, involves the careful & controlled reintroduction of  species that have departed from certain areas, either by habitat reduction or hunting or similar.

The claim for introduction of lynx & wolves in the Scottish Highlands for instance is that they would, over time, reduce the numbers of Female deer to tolerable levels.  Hunters don't want females, they only want big stags and big displays of antlers. So no hunter will pay for the females tho' butchers might. Why the deer, well they are in big numbers and as such are changing the natural plant growth, to the detriment of capercaillie, grouse & mountain Hare for instance.

 

Seems reasonable    but they've a lot of folk to convince yet I think.

Posted on 24/10/2019 06:36 by EasyT

In my view if the wish to reduce the number of female deer for example they already have the top predators in the land. They are called mankind. 

Posted on 24/10/2019 07:30 by EasyT

We humans may be the top predator but how would you suggest that we increase the number culled?  

I would have thought that as a country we could achieve if the desire was there. 

Posted on 24/10/2019 07:43 by Fisherman

Yes humans are the top preditor now. Remember life and everything else has changed since wolves and bears etc roamed the land. As an example the huge rise in population and people living and working in the areas that were then wild. These fancy ideas have no place in modern life. Environmental enhancement yes and it is going on all over the UK.   Unfortunately armchair environmentalists have taken over the agenda with "save this and that". One issue terrorists and wanabe  lovies. It is much more complex and man needs to reach a balance but not get these ideas foisted on the local population, who usually have more knowledge than the pen pushers.

Posted on 24/10/2019 07:43 by Fisherman

Yes humans are the top preditor now. Remember life and everything else has changed since wolves and bears etc roamed the land. As an example the huge rise in population and people living and working in the areas that were then wild. These fancy ideas have no place in modern life. Environmental enhancement yes and it is going on all over the UK.   Unfortunately armchair environmentalists have taken over the agenda with "save this and that". One issue terrorists and wanabe  lovies. It is much more complex and man needs to reach a balance but not get these ideas foisted on the local population, who usually have more knowledge than the pen pushers.

Posted on 24/10/2019 07:58 by Oneputt

The information I've seen estimates that there are between 2 and 4 million Muntjac's in the SE of England alone, which more that the whole population of them in China.  The main reason is we don't tend to eat Muntjac whereas the Chinese do.