Rewilding initiatives

[danny la rouge]

Thank you to wiskey for already posting about this. I thought it needed a thread though:

Re-engineered aurochs release in Scottish highlands.

UK ‘return’ for ancient aurochs 400 years after European extinction - Trees for Life

treesforlife.org.uk

Herd of tauros to be released into Highlands to recreate aurochs effect

Large, cattle-like tauros will shape landscape and strengthen wildlife as huge, extinct herbivore once did

www.theguardian.com

I very much approve. This is great stuff.

 

[bemused]

We don't need more cows, get those lynx in.

 

[Silas Loom]

Aurochs? This is all getting a bit too Jurassic Park for my liking. Cows are murderous enough bastards as it is.

 

[kebabking]

I did used to have this endlessly long-winded, incredibly nuanced view on rewilding - what we could have, what we probably couldn't - and then I lived in Poland for 18 months, where they have Lynx, Boar, Wolves, Bears and Bison, and I've solidly moved to 'yeah, fuck it - bring it all on'.

My replacement has a Lurcher which he's taken over to Poland - apparently she's learned an element of circumspection: she got there and was charging about like a mad thing in this vast wilderness, and then she met a Bear...

 

[danny la rouge]

We don't need more cows, get those lynx in.

We need megafauna herbivores! That’s important. But you’re right, carnivores are also important. The thing is we’ve buggered up the ecosystem and we need to unbugger it.

 

[tim]

Thank you to wiskey for already posting about this. I thought it needed a thread though:

Re-engineered aurochs release in Scottish highlands.

UK ‘return’ for ancient aurochs 400 years after European extinction - Trees for Life

treesforlife.org.uk

Herd of tauros to be released into Highlands to recreate aurochs effect

Large, cattle-like tauros will shape landscape and strengthen wildlife as huge, extinct herbivore once did

www.theguardian.com

I very much approve. This is great stuff.

I have no issue with large semiferal bovids being used for habitat maintenance. However, all since registering by selective breeding something that looks like something that used to exist is pseudoscience which not only sounds a bit Nazi but actually is a bit Nazi.

By heck, these pseudo-aurochs are probably descendants of the Heck brothers Heck Cattle.

When the Nazis Tried to Bring Animals Back From Extinction

Their ideology of genetic purity extended to aspirations about reviving a pristine landscape with ancient animals and forests

www.smithsonianmag.com

 

[Bus Honeygun]

The thing is we’ve buggered up the ecosystem and we need to unbugger it.

Woah, slow down, professor!

 

[The39thStep]

Portugal re-introduced bison this year.




There's also been attempts to expand the small population of Sorria wild horses and to introduce them to other areas

 

[danny la rouge]

I have no issue with large semiferal bovids being used for habitat maintenance. However, all since registering by selective breeding something that looks like something that used to exist is pseudoscience which not only sounds a bit Nazi but actually is a bit Nazi.

By heck, these pseudo-aurochs are probably descendants of the Heck brothers Heck Cattle.

When the Nazis Tried to Bring Animals Back From Extinction

Their ideology of genetic purity extended to aspirations about reviving a pristine landscape with ancient animals and forests

www.smithsonianmag.com

Since Crazy Horse was a tea totalers all tea totalers are First Nation Elders.

 

[kalmatthew]

I hear it's working well in Ambridge.

 

[tim]

Since Crazy Horse was a tea totalers all tea totalers are First Nation Elders.

 

[bcuster]

Reintroduction of wolves is causing a controversy in US West. Mountain lions are re-introducing themselves

 

[danny la rouge]

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[danny la rouge]

Anyone who is interested should probably read Paul Jepson and Cain Blythe‘a Rewilding: The Radical New Science of Ecological Recovery.

It covers Nazi cows.

 

[tim]

Pseudo First Nation Elders going "How!"

 

[tim]

Reintroduction of wolves is causing a controversy in US West. Mountain lions are re-introducing themselves

A wolf reintroduced itself to Belgium and ate a kangaroo.

BBC News - Wolf 'snatches pet kangaroo' from Belgium home - BBC News

Wolf 'snatches pet kangaroo' from Belgium home

Experts believe the marsupial could have been taken by a wolf named August, known to roam the area.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[WouldBe]

Reintroduction of wolves is causing a controversy in US West.

Not what I've read on these boards. Reintroduction of wolves has increased biodiversity.

 

[WouldBe]

A few zebra would be nice.

 

[tim]

A few zebra would be nice.

Civilised rewilding

 

[8ball]

Thank you to wiskey for already posting about this. I thought it needed a thread though:

Re-engineered aurochs release in Scottish highlands.

UK ‘return’ for ancient aurochs 400 years after European extinction - Trees for Life

treesforlife.org.uk

Herd of tauros to be released into Highlands to recreate aurochs effect

Large, cattle-like tauros will shape landscape and strengthen wildlife as huge, extinct herbivore once did

www.theguardian.com

I very much approve. This is great stuff.

<Awaits announcement of deep-fried battered auroch burgers..>

 

[klang]

Since Crazy Horse was a tea totalers all tea totalers are First Nation Elders.

If Danny Whitten would have been one he could still be with us.

 

[RubyToogood]

A few zebra would be nice.

Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically across the plains of Surrey?

 

[Brainaddict]

I'm hoping this govt will give the green light to beavers at least, and possibly boars. And it would be really cool if they allowed lynx but Starmer has already conditioned us not to expect anything too nice so I'm adjusting my expectations of that.

Of course proper rewilding has to be done on a large scale, which is very difficult in this country. We'll always be a bit limited so I'm resigned to calling our titchy little schemes rewilding even though americans would laugh at them. I'm still not resigned to calling regenerative farming projects like Knepp rewilding though. If you're cultivating farm animals within fences and making part of your revenue selling the meat then it's not proper rewilding, sorry.

 

[kebabking]

we can hear the lions roaring at the safari park 5 miles down the road - there is, i confess, a certain frisson of excitement in hearing the distant roaring of an apex predator while you're walking the dog in a vast, deserted forest at 6am...

 

[kalmatthew]

Don't be ridiculous, Surrey is hilly we need mountain lions!

 

[Humberto]

Needs to be as much focused on biodiversity which is in steep decline. Pollinators, soil microfauna.

Basically intensive farming and land use geared around it is currently damaging and inefficient.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

I'm hoping this govt will give the green light to beavers at least

there are some beavers already beaving in england

thread about the ealing ones here.

 

[Brainaddict]

there are some beavers already beaving in england

thread about the ealing ones here.

Yeah, I meant unfenced and without needing authorisation for every new group. Nothing that has to be kept in a fence is properly rewilded imo.

 

[weepiper]

White tailed eagles were extinct in the UK for 70 years but were successfully reintroduced in the 70s and 80s in Scotland with birds from Norway and now we have 150+ breeding pairs. There's another project on the Isle of Wight in its infancy too.

White-tailed eagle reintroduction and conservation

How the reintroduction of the white-tailed eagle plays a role in rewilding.

www.rewildingbritain.org.uk

 

[kebabking]

Yeah, I meant unfenced and without needing authorisation for every new group. Nothing that has to be kept in a fence is properly rewilded imo.

We've got an introduced Beaver colony in the Wyre Forest. I was chatting to one of the FC Rangers and she said that the legislation had changed, and that beavers were know classed as a native species which meant it was much easier to introduce them to new (old?) locations.