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Post by Tringa on Dec 21, 2017 15:46:48 GMT
An article I found interesting from the Walk Highlands site - www.walkhighlands.co.uk/news/consulting-on-wolves/0017312/I have mixed feeling about reintroductions. Some animals are no longer resident in the UK because we are in the here and now and not many hundreds of years in the past. I could be wrong but I think we are responsible for the extinctions. Where a reintroduction could be achieved without a serious impact I'm all for it. Unfortunately I can see conflicts occurring very easily which could result in the severe control or perhaps even eradication of the introduced animal. However, I know I am against the current proposal from the Alladale Estate which as the article suggests is just a way of getting around legislation and the creation of a private zoo. Dave
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Post by rowanberry on Dec 22, 2017 9:27:01 GMT
They have had so many problems with trying to re-establish Hen Harriers, and there was great resistance to beavers being released into the wild... I can just imagine the outcry if wolves were reintroduced!
I can see both sides- on the one hand, the wolves were here first and so why shouldn't they be allowed back into one of their native habitats? but on the other they would be hunted, trapped, poisoned just as they have been in America. It takes HUGE areas of land for them to be allowed to roam in where they are relatively safe from coming into contact with humans (like Yellowstone Park). Besides, from what I understand from this article the man involved seems to want to create a fenced safari park type of thing as a way to charge a LOT of money for people to visit it... but also as a way to restrict ramblers and the right-of-ways on his land.
Two things in the article I found worrying...
"The fenced reserve in question would cover some 50,000 acres and be surrounded by a three-metre high electric fence to keep the animals inside. More crucially the fence would also prevent the public from accessing an enormous chunk of highland landscape that includes a remote Corbett called Carn Ban."
and even more so was this...
"At a meeting with Paul Lister about 10 years ago he admitted he had never heard of the Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2003 and complained bitterly that hillwalkers should have the common courtesy of asking him for permission to walk on his property.
It was clear from the conversation that he knew very little about Scottish access rights and it seemed public access was very low on his list of priorities."
It sounds to me as though his concern for wolves has little to do with the animals themselves... hardly altruistic!
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