When rewilding goes wrong , (graphic image)
- Thread starter andybk
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- sw scotland
Skye?
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- Mendips Somerset
where exactly ? , wolves released on an island would soon become a welfare disaster , the deer wouldnt last long , nor would anything else . The point of the OP is to highlight what happens when ecologists get their way with no plan B or exit policy , to be honest top predators are better in places like longleat where they Can be looked after properly especially on a small island on which we live
I don't know, hence the question. Can't help but think there will be more money to be earned from wolf-watching than sheep-farming on some island in our waters.
Vasectomized wolves to control the numbers ? Everything is a compromise, we either try to find a half-way house or just keep fighting Cwis n co and get nowhere ?
Isle of Wight.....
But yes, on the right island something as you suggest might work... But it will need to be in a single ownership in my view.
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- Mendips Somerset
offs , thay already have big issues with sea eagles/ ravens , there are loads of sheep on IOW and Tourists ,
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- Mendips Somerset
yea i know , the written word doesnt do sarcasm lolI was being tongue in cheek here.....
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- Essex
Doesn't nature balance out the prey and predator ratios?
Wolves are a welfare disaster. Kosher slaughter is nothing next to death by wolf
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- Mendips Somerset
thats what the chris packhams tell themselves , they do to some degree , usually at the cost of prey further down the chain, Uncle whos a gamekeeper were forever picking up thin owls (inc barn) where corvoids and buzzards ate all their food sources. there are usually huge see saws before equilibrium is found .
I'm all for a wild Island where tourists go an see scary animals but has anyone here ever seen Jurassic park 
Who the hell is going to want to go walking anywhere where wolves or big cats are about though. The way people think in this country they would be running back to the towns.
Trophy hunters???
Paddington
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- Soggy Shropshire
City traders would love to live on the Isle of Wolves instead of the Isle of Dogs, be handy for the eco tourists too.
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- Ledbury, Herefordshire
We had a trip to the animalarium when I was a student - I can see how pretty much anything could escape from there, it was chaos.
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- Devon
I and my family are big fans of the nature programmes- Attenborough etc. But it has always raised a wry smile that they skip over the way hunting dogs/ wolves kill their prey. They show the hunt and catch, then skip to the pack feeding on a half eaten carcass.
Unlike a big cat that throttles its prey, canines tend to eat larger prey to death.
The mental gymnastics of those who get very upset about deer being shot or hunting with dogs yet advocate wolves is impressive
I shared a vid - which I can't find now- of a bear in Alaska maybe, eating a deer calf from the ass-end forrard.
It's screaming in pain, as mummy deer looks in distraught, pacing about 100m away.
It's grim to watch if you're a bit of a sensitive type, but thats the way nature is.
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- Devon
Not sure i can like that, but nature sure is cruel.
To my mind the miliant vegan types show a complete disconnect with the natural word in their insistence that we do nothing at all that affects animals.