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'Re-Wilding' Europe
      #122556 - 29/12/08 11:41 AM

You are on safari amid lynx, bears and elk. The wetlands around you are dominated by small lakes created by beaver dams. In the distance a wolf howls.

Nothing unusual perhaps – except that this is not northern Canada but Scotland sometime in the near future.

Down in the Lake District, the neat fields and walls that make the area one of Britain’s most manicured “wildernesses” are also changing. The native woodlands of the Ennerdale valley are spreading, Highland cattle have replaced sheep and there has even been talk of reintroducing beaver and bison.

Welcome to rewilding, a movement that is radicalising conservation biology, turning what had been a scientific backwater into one of its most controversial areas. What the rewilders want is nothing less than the reversal of thousands of years of domestication, returning vast tracts of countryside to the way they looked thousands of years ago. They believe the best way to achieve this is by bringing back the biggest and fiercest animals of all – the elk, wolves, lynx and even bears that roamed Britain 10,000 years ago at the end of the Pleistocene era.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article5404100.ece

A more comparable example lies in the Netherlands. Oost-vaardersplassen is a 14,000-acre tract of uninhabited fen, scrub woodland and wild grassland that was reclaimed from the sea just 40 years ago and set aside for wildlife. The reserve offers Europe the best glimpse of the Pleistocene it might wish for, with ancient breeds such as Heck cattle and Konik horses already living there and plans to introduce European bison.

Hunters will not be allowed anywhere near these places, not until the wild animals start eating hikers and children (witness Berlin and the boars).

Edited by Story (29/12/08 11:49 AM)

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Re: 'Re-Wilding' Europe [Re: Story]
      #125612 - 02/02/09 12:34 AM

Two follow-ups on this topic --


Extinct ibex is resurrected by cloning
An extinct animal has been brought back to life for the first time after being cloned from frozen tissue.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtec...by-cloning.html

(so what's appropriate for Mastadon hunting, a .600 Nitro?)

Wild boar 'should return to British woodlands'
Wild boar should be allowed to regain their natural place in the UK's woodlands, the Wildwood Trust urged today as it welcomed the birth of three new piglets to its resident boar couple.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/4420402/Wild-boar-should-return-to-British-woodlands.html

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Re: 'Re-Wilding' Europe [Re: Story]
      #125619 - 02/02/09 01:06 AM

i kind of like that, wonder what a mammuth hunt would cost ?

peter

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Re: 'Re-Wilding' Europe [Re: peter]
      #218312 - 23/10/12 04:24 AM

ARKHYZ, Russia — Four startled bison backed out of their traveling crates here, looked around suspiciously for a moment, then strolled contentedly across the field. Finally, they were home, home on the range where they had been declared nearly extinct.

The big shaggy 2-year-olds, who look much like the American buffalo, had been driven 1,000 miles from a nature reserve in the Moscow region to southwest Russia, where the European bison had roamed for centuries in the woodlands of the North Caucasus mountains.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/euro...b2a7_story.html

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