Lynx a step closer to re introduction?

[unlacedgecko]

Chap today said each Lynx would only kill 0.4 sheep per year - I kid you not, that is what these muppets believe!

Apparently they are only proposing 6 Lynx inittialy, so we would only have to lose 2.8 sheep, and even that shouldn't be a concern as farmers will be adequately compensated for proven losses!!

TSS

That's a statistic exptrapolated from European studies. They take the total number of predated sheep in a country and divide it by the estimated total number of lynx.

I should think that the sheep figure is low and the lynx figure is high.

This doesn't account for the fact that the European countries in question have huge areas of wilderness with lots of lynx and no sheep.

Like someone said on a similar thread about sea eagles, the fact that only a small percentage of the predator population eat livestock doesn't help when it's your livestock they're eating.

 

[holwellcourtfarm]

I heard it too, World at One, R4............
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08xxddf
Starts at 42:15
According to the "expert" we apparently live in "one of the least bio-diverse countries in the world" and releasing lynx will "generate 10's of millions of pounds for rural economies"
FFS. Just 2 of the gems he came out with

Then we, as an industry, must urgently challenge such comments, ask for their data sources and put our point across.

 

[Old Tip]

That's a statistic exptrapolated from European studies. They take the total number of predated sheep in a country and divide it by the estimated total number of lynx.

I should think that the sheep figure is low and the lynx figure is high.

This doesn't account for the fact that the European countries in question have huge areas of wilderness with lots of lynx and no sheep.

Like someone said on a similar thread about sea eagles, the fact that only a small percentage of the predator population eat livestock doesn't help when it's your livestock they're eating.

Yeah the effin idiots don't tell you that the figures come from countries with minute levels of livestock grazing compared to us and where what few there are are housed for at least half of the year. This is a totally different landscape and enviroment to the Nordic countries the figures are based on.
Makes my blood boil

 

[ThatsSomeSheep]

Then we, as an industry, must urgently challenge such comments, ask for their data sources and put our point across.

To be fair, from what I hear, both NSA and NFUS are doing a good job on this.

TSS