Lynx Reintroduction Survey - Have Your Say!

[reintroproject]

Hello there!

I'm currently in my second year of university and for a project, I am exploring the attitudes towards the potential reintroduction of the Eurasian Lynx in the British Isles, it would mean a lot to me if you could take a few minutes to complete this survey!

https://goo.gl/forms/UpCtUQJPsNtxXpH12

If you are given a score at the end please ignore it, it doesn't mean anything as the answers are not scored! Thanks!

 

[7610 super q]

Will Lynx take out ramblers ?
If so, count me in.

 

[Roger Perry]

Lynx were re-introduced in my locale about 15 years ago, they are so elusive they are hardly seen around, no livestock predation at all.

We have mountain lion and black bears too.

 

[Dman2]

Sorry could`nt resist

 

[reintroproject]

Thanks for the responses so far! Definitely, an issue that many do feel strongly about!

To clarify I am neither pro or anti reintroduction, I just thought this would be an interesting area to explore.

 

[Flasheart]

If you re-introduce Lynx to Thetford Forest , as has been mentioned, everyone on the Abbey Farm Estate will have a nice hearth rug or coat!

 

[roscoe erf]

Will Lynx take out ramblers ?
If so, count me in.

no it attracts them especially the females

 

[roscoe erf]

Lynx were re-introduced in my locale about 15 years ago, they are so elusive they are hardly seen around, no livestock predation at all.

We have mountain lion and black bears too.

probably eaten all the lynx thats why you don't see them

 

[Jungle Bill]

I notice on all these university surveys we can only have one occupation, I could have truthfully have ticked at least 3 of them, some potentially affected by lynx and some not.
I don't know how aware students are of the employment environment they will face over their career but many of my colleagues who graduated 40 years ago now don't fit into any single one of the boxes in this survey and some would need to tick most to be truthful.

 

[Roger Perry]

I remember back when they were to be re- introduced here, lengthy studies ....town hall meetings... consultations, on and on.
After further discussions the Lynx were shipped in from Canada, put in a holding area to aclimatise, then had electronic tags inserted and released.
This has been 12-15 yrs now and I have never in that time heard of issues with cattle or sheep predation, Lynx are very shy creatures.

 

[sidjon]

The Lynx which escaped from Dartmoor zoo killed several lambs last year.

 

[llamedos]

Aujeszky's disease reported in a Spanish Lynx recently.
We are officially free of this, last reported here in the late 80s, lets hope it stays that way.

 

[ThatsSomeSheep]

Lynx can GTF.

I have enough bother trying to keep sheep alive.

TSS

 

[reintroproject]

I notice on all these university surveys we can only have one occupation, I could have truthfully have ticked at least 3 of them, some potentially affected by lynx and some not.
I don't know how aware students are of the employment environment they will face over their career but many of my colleagues who graduated 40 years ago now don't fit into any single one of the boxes in this survey and some would need to tick most to be truthful.

Definitely an oversight on my part and my supervisors, I think for anyone else facing this issue just go for best fit, thanks for raising this issue!

Some great responses coming in, thanks so much for taking the time out of your days to help me out!

 

[Wiking]

We have lynx over here, they've always been very shy and kept to themselves. I've only ever seen tracks of them in the snow and seen them on pictures taken by those cameras that hunters put up.
The wolves however, they've killed a lot of sheep when they've traveled south. And all those supposed animal-rights geezers thought it was better to let the wolf rip sheep to shreds than to kill or move the wolf north again!

 

[Bury the Trash]

Lynx were re-introduced in my locale about 15 years ago, they are so elusive they are hardly seen around, no livestock predation at all.

We have mountain lion and black bears too.

that was Lynx canadensis - canada lynx a smaller type than the Eurasian lynx which is referred to here.

 

[Roger Perry]

Maybe, I guess I do not know.

 

[Bury the Trash]

well it seems that the common or european/eurasian lynx main diet is even-toed ungulates which of course includes sheep but the n g says it prefers deer,.. roe and red course the sweet little fawns will be easy prey and good thing too as we have too many of them.
oh plus a rabbit or 2 and a few birds when its desperate i guess but then they can always blame the farmer and the domestic cat for that loss.....

 

[Bury the Trash]

Maybe, I guess I do not know.

https://cpw.state.co.us/Documents/Research/Mammals/LynxFactSheet.pdf

 

[MickMoor]

From Wkipedia: From the 1960s to September 2000 it was home to a wildlife park, containing British and European fauna.[3] Riber Castle Wildlife Park, or Riber Zoo as it was known, was eventually sold by the owner, but they were unable to sell it as a going concern, and so the park eventually closed. The park was criticised heavily for the treatment of the animals kept there,[4] and the closure was not without controversy. Activists also released several lynx from Riber Zoo which escaped into the wild.
There have been no reports in the press of any being seen, but about 10-12 years ago, a man I know, not well read, but exceedingly observant, described seeing an animal that could only have been a lynx. As previously stated they must be very shy creatures.