I'm all for lynx being reintroduced to the UK,I live in Scotland and we have lots of habitat that could support and benefit from the Lynx,the sooner it happens the better🤞🤞
"Deer graze vegetation, until nothing is left." This hardly describes the Rate of Deforestation caused by uncontrolled deer populations, or the massive cost to people like the National Trust in Deer Proof Fencing, in places like Hatfield Forrest, Hertfordshire just to preserve parts of the forrest.
I don’t get why you are so scared of reintroducing lynx’s. We have bobcats which are about the same size in our local park they will walk right past you on the bike trails with their kittens. At one point there were 23 in a seven mile stretch. They also live in the cities like foxes do in the UK. We also have coyotes everywhere that are about the same size and run In packs.
Where are you talking about? I think it's more to do with livestock and farmers here. Lynx mean less Roe Deer and they will kill sheep, both of these animals they like to kill, the farmers, I mean. They don't want competition with rifles. They need to let off steam and blast a deer from time to time.
Not Buffalo or you’ll need to reintroduce an even bigger predator like a Tiger. Buffalo are even more destructive to ecosystem with overgrazing than Deer.
I hear there are compensation schemes in other European countries to cover farmers for livestock losses. It works everywhere else so can’t see it being a problem in the uk. If it weren’t for the fact that Britain is an island the lynx would already be here. I would love to see them reintroduced
I thought lynx were already living in the UK countryside along with other big cat species such as pumas & panthers. There's been sightings of pumas dating back to the 50's in the UK!
I met a European Lynx in South Ipswich on my daily walk to my elderly Mum's house in 1996. It stayed looking at me while I smoked a cigerette, leaning on a wooden gate, about 10 mins, and less than 10 feet away. This explained why I had noticed all the regular grey squirrels had dissapeared over the previous 3 weeks.
I live in Northumberland and my main concern with lynxes being reintroduced here would be that they'd prey on the Cheviot goats, a wild herd of the very rare British primitive goat believed to have continually inhabited the Cheviot hills since the Neolithic era
In the uk , water companies pay farmers to use poison that kills invertebrates that hedgehogs eat , because slugs etc eat the same veg that gets put on our plates for Christmas .
Nathan Nicholas The government could, also, help farmers pay for guard dogs and compensate them, as well, for lost sheep. If any individual predator became too bothersome, he could be relocated or dealt with in a more permanent manner.
Having a factory farming of deer both native and foreign can be a solution for both humans and carnivorous animals. From human perspective if increase in deer meat takes place it might in distant future overthrow beef as the most popular source of mammal meat worlwide since deers and antelopes contribute to lesser carbon emissions than cows.As far as Animals are concerned,imagine if foreign deer species like black bucks and Cheetal along wild foreign felines like cougars and snow leopards are introduced in Britain then the diversity of creatures could increase in the region.Plus if deer population explodes in UK then variation of wild carnivores could be fed from their own breeding grounds.
Lynx are already in the uk wild,leopards and pumas more so since the 1950s.reports of pumas mating with house cat creating hybrids,check latest story of an hybrid cat that got into a man's house.
Hello from Finland. Lynxes do not attack humans, not even in myths or fairy tales, and nobody is afraid of them. We have a population of about three thousand lynxes here in Finland, some of which are suburban. No lynx attacks on humans whatsoever. They do, however, kill sheep and goats.