Monty Don says wolves should be reintroduced to Britain as deer are destroying our woodland

[Eildon Hill]

Monty Don says wolves should be reintroduced to Britain as deer are destroying our woodland

The presenter also said slugs should not be killed by gardeners and explained why our gardens need to be more untidy

www.telegraph.co.uk

...yup.......unsurprisingly predictable.......................

 

[Ffermer Bach]

to be honest, I am more worried about Beavers, I read that when they hear water running through a pipe (or culvert), they think it is a leak in a dam and make sure they block it up, and just counting I have 19 pipes to take ditches under gateways here. Conservationists have even designed a guard for pipes (which to me seems to be designed to block up and need cleaning out very regularly).

 

[Kidds]

He is a bit of a knobhead about a lot of farming practices.

There's nothing wrong with having alternative ideas but it is a very different matter when you have such a large and susceptible audience as many of these "celebrities" have.

 

[Adeptandy]

They taste nice, can’t we just shoot them ?

 

[steveR]

They taste nice, can’t we just shoot them ?

I understand they are fishy tasting...

 

[Scholsey]

He wouldn’t be saying that when there’s a wolf ripping the throat out of his golden retriever

 

[7610 super q]

Wolves will attack and kill ramblers, so I'm all for it.

 

[Drillman]

Monty Don can sod off. I happen to like seeing bambi and her mates running across my farm.

truly majestic creatures.

they don’t taste bad either

 

[uztrac]

They taste nice, can’t we just shoot them ?

We had a haunch for dinner yesterday evening along with a soft claret,what more can we do,beautiful !!

 

[Tim G]

Doesn't Monty Don's son farm? Adam I think it is, used to make a lot of noise on twitter (might still do), @Clive would know I'm sure.....

 

[Suffolk Serf]

That confirms all that I thought about Monty Don i'm afraid.

 

[Yale]

Looks like he’s joined the John Craven appreciation society,along with David Attenborough.

 

[Tubbylew]

Notice these rewilding types have scarcely had to work for a living let alone scratch a pittance from the land.

 

[tinsheet]

Wolves will attack and kill ramblers, so I'm all for it.

Yep let me have a dozen guardian dogs, and I'm up for it to.

 

[primmiemoo]

Wolves will attack and kill ramblers, so I'm all for it.

That's ok, then. Monty deadheads 'em.

 

[Cab-over Pete]

Whilst many of the points these people (you know what I mean) make can be good, does he seriously think it’s a good idea to have a fantastically successful vicious predator roaming around the British countryside?

I think wolves are incredible and beautiful creatures but I’m chuffed if I want to be doing my current job, which involves faffing about in fields in the dark very often, with the thought I might see one or more wolves licking their lips.

I watched a documentary once about reintroducing wolves to a remote valley in the USA. The valley was many tens of thousands of acres with not a single human inhabitant, but many were up in arms about the prospect.

One chap said “The wolf is an incredible and evil creature. If the devil himself had a pet, he would have a wolf.”

 

[Sid]

Hedgehog road deaths in UK 'as high as 335,000'

Three times as many are dying than in 2016, a Nottingham Trent University study estimates.

www.bbc.co.uk

And a large proportion of hedgehogs die on out roads.....no mention of the stripy predator that tears them to shreds in the countryside!

Why not control them?

 

[neilo]

Doesn't Monty Don's son farm? Adam I think it is, used to make a lot of noise on twitter (might still do), @Clive would know I'm sure.....

He used to run a flying sheep flock and was a lot more sensible than his Dad.

I’ve not seen or heard of him for a good while now, and pretty sure he left the industry.

 

[nick...]

Need something round here to control the deer.we are getting over run with them
nick...

 

[Eildon Hill]

Need something round here to control the deer.we are getting over run with them
nick...

.....lead?