Beavers, bison and returning beasts: Rewilding the UK

al Jazeera ^ | 9-3-20 | Nick Clark

[diatomite]

What? Wild boars are fun when they charge you. Either pull your protection pistol (which I was never packing when I needed it) and shoot it, or climb a tree , or jump a barbed wire fence. They are easier to escape from than bears. The tree climbing doesn’t work well for bear escapes, but I don’t know about barb wire fences.

[Pearls Before Swine]

I’m thinking of feral hogs in the southern US. Very destructive, and too many of them.

[Chauncey Gardiner]

Werewolves... hounds of the Baskerville... perfect hair and chow mein...

[marktwain]

Yes, it is amazing how much of a pest beavers can be.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Don't forget to send them some Canadian timberwolves. 😉

[PIF]

Also Dire Wolves and Woolly Rinos, Short Faced Bears, and the old stands by Woolly Mammoths and Mastodons, throw in a few Giant Sloths and the odd Smilodon

[EvilCapitalist]

26 posts on a beaver thread, and I’m the first to post this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvWfbIe4X_4
The standards at Free Republic have fallen.

[5th MEB]

Well I guess the Brits better start tearing down their wind generators if they expect to keep their birds of prey!

[Varda]

Britain used to be a peninsula of Europe until about 8,000 years ago. Bison used to be all over Europe.

[SJackson]

The dead bird fines will be a revenue source, eventually. Honestly, when restoring species not from 50-200 years ago, but centuries and millenia, it’s all guesswork. Just fine anyone in the way. Windmill kills birds, fine said windmill, pay the fine through rates.

[SJackson]

I want to see wooly mammoths returned, before I die

Will you settle for an elephant in a Sasquatch costume?

[SJackson]

Perhaps they should restore Norsemen.

[diatomite]

I can attest there are feral hogs in the southern Gila National Forest. Definitely hogs and not javalinas.

Presumably they descended from escaped domestic hogs of early ranchers and became feral after many generations of wild breeding.

[LimitedPowers]

They could import some Angles and Saxons.

[Viking2002]

My wife and I just made some killer bison spaghetti sauce the other night. The bell peppers were picked right from the patio pots.

[SunkenCiv]

Heh... nothing says 'natural habitat' like a plebescite on which species to try to reintroduce. Hippies.

[Red Badger]

They might want to review the video of the woman last week thrown about by a bison like a rag doll.................

[DariusBane]

Tis a sad state of affairs indeed!

[Ellendra]

Some of the pictures in that graph seem a little off. Or is “wildcat” the British term for members of the weasel family, while “lynx” refers to a canine with a fluffy tail?