Here Are 5 Animals That Need To Be Reintroduced To The UK 

Do you agree with the animals I mentioned?

I live in moose, wolf and lynx part of country in Norway and the problems you would face of reintroduce moose are they follow routes 1000's of years old. We have signs on these routes so we know were to be observant in traffic. In britain they would be like cows loose in traffic I think. The wolves and lynx would be a great addition for you I think. Btw, the moose kill people the wolf and lynx don't.

One creature that really should be considered for reintroduction is the burbot (Lota lota). This fish is the only freshwater member of the cod family. It was once so common in England (particularly the Norfolk Broads) that folks fed them to their pigs. The last one seen in the UK was in 1970 from the Great Ouse Relief Channel although some people think that there may be still survivors in Norfolk or Yorkshire. It is still reasonably common and widespread in Europe and as a likely extinct indigenous species it must surely be a candidate for reintroduction.

Wolves would just be unthinkable in the uk wild. We are a small island nation and the problem this would cause not only in urban areas and motorways, but farmland and Greater outdoors. They do not fit in with our current ecosystem anymore and it wouldn’t be fair on the wolves either. Romantic idea but advantageous and irresponsible if that ever went forward. Nice video though 👍🏼

Norway - 385,000 sq Km. Sweden - 528,000 sq Km, Finland - 338,000 sq km and Bonnie Scotland only has 77,000 which includes hundreds of wee island and 6.8 million sheep and 180,000 cows. That is the reason you can't have Moose or Wolves and Bears roaming around. We do not have the room or enough "proper" food. No matter how cool it is or how "wicked" they look.

you need to go to bearwood in bristol it has all the animals that used to be here in the u. k. like bears walls links and wolverines all in like a big open space

Take a shot every time this bloke says Wicked bet you're hammerd halfway through the video

Great Video as always! I would love to see UK have some king of apex predators again, the Ecossystem right there, really really need them!

Funny that in North America we call wapiti, elk, and what you call elk we call moose.

Brilliant video Cookie - bringing this subject to such a wide and important audience! I'd love to speak to rewilding in depth more if you ever had video ideas?

I saw a lynx in Cornwall years ago. I stared at it for ages and persuaded myself that it was too still to be a real animal so I looked away for 2 seconds. When I looked back it had gone.

I think lynx mainly hunt smaller animals. Like birds and small mammals, with deer being a rare meal. Like a baby deer.

hi cookie this was very interesting and knowledgeable video mate.

Bison recently got released in Blean woods so if you go there you could see them

North America's largest which is number three in the World is the Great Grey Owl. Moose would be good to reintroduce, wolves, lynx, the Actic fox would be good and the scottish wildcat also the european bison. Goodluck with the reintroductions. bring the wild back to its greatness.

I’ve said it once n I’ll say it again, find those bloody Cranes! 😂

From the guardian 2008: Last seen several thousand years ago loping through the ancient forests and glens of Scotland, two moose have arrived at a remote reserve in the Highlands as part of plans to reintroduce wild animals now extinct in the UK. The male and female moose are part of ambitious and controversial proposals by a millionaire landowner to recreate an ancient mountain habitat, complete with wolves, lynx and brown bears roaming freely within a vast fenced-off wildlife reserve north of Inverness. Paul Lister, the son of the founder of the MFI furniture chain, wants to "re-wild" 50,000 acres around his 23,000 acre estate at Alladale to create a safari-style wildlife reserve. Maybe they are breeding and you can chck them out

I would love to see this,there's no reason with the right planning that we couldn't, it would be so beneficial, Scotlands population density is less than France and Italy who have wolves,lynx and bears.

Though I'd add this list of what was here some have returned some may never return. (Mammals Straight tusked elephant 781,000.b.c to 30,000.b.c (extinct Auroch 400,000.b.c (extinct hunting European wild ass 350,000 To 300,000.b.c (extinct European jaguar 1.95,0000 to 1.77,0000.b.c (extinct Cave lion 600,000.b.c (extinct european hamsters 500,000 to 300,000.b.c (change of climate European Hippo 100,000.b.c to 1.8,000 (extinct Narrow nosed rhino 40,000.b.c (extinct Steppe bison 36,000.b.c to 5,300.b.c (extinct Barbary macaque 30,000.b.c Scimitar Toothed cat 28,000.b.c to12,000.b.c (extinct European ice age leopard 26,000 to 32,000.b.c (extinct Cave bear 24,000.b.c to 12,000.b.c (extinct Polar bear 15,979 b.c (change of climate Cave hyena 14,000.b.c to 11,000.b.c (extinct Spotted hyena 11,000.b.c Musk ox 11,000.b.c (change of climate Arctic fox 11,000 b.c (change of climate Woolly mammoth 10,500.b.c (extinct change of climate Woolly rhino 10,000.b.c (extinct Saiga antelope 10,000.b.c (change of climate Pika 10,000 (change of climate Arctic lemming 8000.b.c (change of climate norway lemming 8000.b.c (change of climate European Forest reindeer 8000.b.c (change of climate Narrow headed vole 8,000.b.c (change of climate Irish elk 7,700.b.c (extinct change of climate Wolverine 6000.b.c (hunting European bison 3000.b.c (change of climate European moose 2500.b.c to 800.b.c (change of climate, vegetation, hunting and fragmentation of their environment Tundra vole 1500.b.c (change of climate Wild boar 1400.b.c (hunting Walrus 1000.b.c European lynx 400.a.d (deforestation and persecution European brown bear 1000.a.d (gradual and persistent hunting, alongside the loss of its forest habitat European beaver 1526.a.d (hunting Grey whale 1610.a.d (hunting European grey Wolf 1680.a.d (hunting Tarpan/Exmoor pony/heck horse (change of climate (Birds European eagle owl 8000.b.c (hunting Dalmatian pelican 1000.b.c (drainage of wetlands, alongside hunting and disturbance Lanner falcon 1236.a.d-1300.a.d (Change of climate European crane 1300.a.d to 1500.a.d (Little egret 1300.a.d to 1500.a.d (White stork 1416.a.d (hunting and the loss of watery habitats (European griffon vulture 1519 to 1600.a.d (change of climate (European spoonbill 1601.a.d to 1700.a.d (Western capercaillie 1780.a.d ( (Western marsh harrier 1801 to 1900 (hunting (Northern goshawk 1801 to 1900 (hunting (Pie avocet 1801 to 1900 (Great bustard 1801 to 1900 (hunting (Kentish plover 1901 to 2000 (White tailed sea eagle 1916 (hunting (Osprey 1916 (hunting Cory's shearwater Manx shearwater Northern Hawk owl (Reptiles European pond terrapin (Amphibians Agile frog 1000.a.d Moor frog 1000.a.d Pool frog 1999 (Insect Blue stag beetle 1801 to 1900 Dung beetle

Yep bring back the Moose, bison and maybe lynx but NOT the beautiful wolves, Wolves are too cruel a killer, They would be persecuted because they would go after livestock, so not good idea.. BUT why would you want to bring back all the aforementioned animals and the wolf to kill them off,hmmmm,, Also it would bring hunters back big time, Plus people complain too many deer but the next issue would be TOO many moose etc.. Really think things should be left as they are, man has encroached too much into wild animals habitat bringing back any thing else would lead to far too many more issues all of which would end up badly for the animals

Great video again :)

Bears don't belong in the UK Wolves and lynx do

I dont think moose should be reintroduced because not enough room and they are too dangerous and unpredictable with other animals like wolves there's measures but moose if you run into one you will be attacked and probably killed that's my opinion tho

The Natural Order of Great Britain has been torn to pieces over countless centuries if not millennia, it is our duty to restore it to what it was so that the land can properly heal and recover.

I hate to dissapoint you but the Eurasian Eagle owl (Bubo Bubo) is only the 2. largest in the World. number One in the World is the Blakiston's Fish Owl (Bubo Blakistoni) with a wing span of over 6.5 ft or six and a half feet.

It's time for fixing Mother Nature's wound . I suggest UK Wildlife Department Re-wildering with European Grey Wolf's 🐺, European Brown Bear 🐻, Wolverine, European Lynx, European Bison 🦬, Wild Horse 🐎 .

I agree bringing those animals back to the UK. But one animal would take care of the deer 🦌 problem would be mountain lions but I’m not shear if they are native

Ohh there’s a golden pheasant in the woods by me :)

Our European cousins live quite happily amongst wolves , bears, lynx et cetera us Brits seem to be total pussies when it comes to anything a bit spicy. All you Gotta do is look at the amount of objections to there being wild boar and how people complain that they might chase their dogs or dig up footpath’s

Wolf, lnyx, bears would fit well to a healthy ecosystem. But the problem is they really should talk with land owners and the peoples who live near to the release site, also do meeting, arguing nights, and program where they can show the newest studies. And also consider ate every aspects of the release. If an animal capable killing a baby lamb it would be feared by the local farmers and the fear will grow if they not lived together with the animal for centuries and what they know are mostly from stories. Althought may the animal will never reach their property the fear is there. In most country european lynxes very rarely kill livestock. But in Northern Europe where is a more healthy and larger lynx population, they kill livestocks and farmers generally bring up this datas. It funny bc in Hungary the big predators ( expect large bird of preys) only came back in the last 30 years. Farmers are not fear eagles bc they live together with them and they know that its very rare that an eagle kill a lamb, they also not fear lynx bc its rarely seen and timid and onyl can be found in closed forests. But if they hear wolf!!! They had a meeting with Transylvanian farmers whose Just laughed at wolf bc they count in it but Transylvanian farmers were more afraid of bears then wolfs. Also there are several solution for predators: compensation, free ancient sheperd and animal guarding dog breeds, and also 5 lined electrick fence. And another animal would be fit in UK the Aurochs like cattles.

No because if it's extinct on the island it's more than likely it's an extinct subspecies.

Hi cookie 🙂 in case your looking for a golden pheasant you might have some luck up here were I live in the outskirts of Newcastle. Now last year me and my mum were down by a duck pond when we came upon two photographers who showed us a photo of a femal golden pheasant that was supposedly in the area. The area is shibbton pond local nature reserve, although this was a year ago so don't get your hopes up. As far as other wildlife goes you won't see anything more exiting than the odd roe deer and heron but you could go to the Derwent walk for that which isn't too far away where you can see foxes,willow tits,deer, badgers, dragonflies, a kingfisher (if you're lucky) and of course an abundance of red kites.

I actually found a golden pheasant in a local quarry I tried catching it but failed 😭

I agree with all except bison and Reindeer as this first is Invasive we did have bison but we had the Caucasus bison or steppe bison which is extinct the second is native but when extinct due to change in climate not coz of humans same with polar bear. I also think Wolverine and Walrus. I would love to see brown bears come back but I don't think it will happen nore do I think wolf or lynx will due to agriculture the lynx program has been pushed back 3 time due to farmer's stating there toich of a threat to livestock then here's an idea if you got money to buy land livestock and state of the art agriculture machinery then you can afford to put and electric fence around the edge of your land.

i think there might be some lynx in the forest of dean.Not sure though

Good job cookie

We don't need to reintroduce any species, let's preserve what we have.

Super interesting, would be class to see some of these reintroduced.

Instead of wolf I would rather have a lynx because they are less likely to kill humans

That’s Scotland baby

Wicked video

But where? Wolves of London.

Bring back the Lynx

Amazing hun I completely agree bring them all back big cats the lot

What about dinosaurs

I wan moose and lions back deer are boring

It's amazing how people think they can sit wolves down and communicate to them not to eat the slow moving sheep that are confined in that field, who literally cant escape, but instead go out and try to find a deer..... There are even people wanting to have wolves reintroduced in Ireland, a tiny country with practically no ancient forests. Just seems to be a form of virtue signalling by people who occasionally visit/drive through the countryside

You should move to Scotland, save yourself petrol money.🤣