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mercalia wrote:seems like you will have to be careful where you wild camp in the forest of Dean as Bristol Zoological Society’s Wild Place Project has some of them there. It seems this is part of a debate on rewilding. some more nutcases at work? I dont think I want bears and wolves running around our country side so a stupid idea, serves no purpose than as an "attraction". They had their time and good riddance. if I wanted to risk being attacked by a wild animal I would go an live in the out back of the USA or Australia and other countries. The good thing about this country is that we are at the top of the food chain?

seems like Dr Christoph Schwitzer believes there is also a good argument for reintroducing larger creatures such as lynx to remote areas such as the Scottish highlands. “That may be worth trying. A population of 300 or 400 lynx might be viable,” he said.

I think he has watched Jurassic Park too many times



https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/ ... nt-forests

mercalia wrote:seems like you will have to be careful where you wild camp in the forest of Dean

mercalia wrote: I dont think I want bears and wolves running around our country side so a stupid idea

Cyril Haearn wrote:The fence might not be strong enough to keep them in, someone might leave a gate open
At least all the five wolves are male so they cannae have kids

I fear the bears and wolves shall kill each other, just like back then

richardfm wrote:

Cyril Haearn wrote:The fence might not be strong enough to keep them in, someone might leave a gate open
At least all the five wolves are male so they cannae have kids

I fear the bears and wolves shall kill each other, just like back then

The fence might not be strong enough but that is highly unlikely. I think you'll find it was humans who killed the bears and wolves, causing them to become extinct in the UK

CLIMBING through the January snow, into the Lobo canyon
Dark grow the spruce-trees, blue is the balsam, water sounds
still unfrozen, and the trail is still evident.

Men!
Two men!
Men! The only animal in the world to fear!

They hesitate.
We hesitate.
They have a gun.
We have no gun.

Then we all advance, to meet.

Two Mexicans, strangers, emerging out of the dark and snow
and inwardness of the Lobo valley.
What are they doing here on this vanishing trail?

What is he carrying?
Something yellow.
A deer?

Qu' tiene, amigo?
Leon

He smiles, foolishly, as if he were caught doing wrong.
And we smile, foolishly, as if we didn't know.
He is quite gentle and dark-faced.

It is a mountain lion,
A long, long slim cat, yellow like a lioness.
Dead.

He trapped her this morning, he says, smiling foolishly.

Lift up her face,
Her round, bright face, bright as frost.
Her round, fine-fashioned head, with two dead ears;
And stripes in the brilliant frost of her face, sharp, fine
dark rays,
Dark, keen, fine rays in the brilliant frost of her face.
Beautiful dead eyes.

Hermoso es!

They go out towards the open;
We go on into the gloom of Lobo.
And above the trees I found her lair,
A hole in the blood-orange brilliant rocks that stick up, a
little cave.
And bones, and twigs, and a perilous ascent.

So, she will never leap up that way again, with the yellow
flash of a mountain lion's long shoot!
And her bright striped frost face will never watch any more,
out of the shadow of the cave in the blood-orange
rock,
Above the trees of the Lobo dark valley-mouth!

Instead, I look out.
And out to the dim of the desert, like a dream, never real;
To the snow of the Sangre de Cristo mountains, the ice of
the mountains of Picoris,
And near across at the opposite steep of snow, green trees
motionless standing in snow, like a Christmas toy.

And I think in this empty world there was room for me
and a mountain lion.
And I think in the world beyond, how easily we might
spare a million or two of humans
And never miss them.
Yet what a gap in the world, the missing white frost face
of that slim yellow mountain lion!

Cyril Haearn wrote:What about the lions of Longleat?