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Fears of ‘rogue rewilding’ in Scottish Highlands after further lynx sightings (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by Olap to c/scotland

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Four captured in 2 days. The suspicion is that more are out there still. Celebrated by most, so it slightly surprising to see this Guardian piece not talking much about the benefits and abundance of deer in Scotland

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Oh no, rewilding. It's meant to be a car park.

[–] Olap 7 points 2 weeks ago

Or a sporting estate for the landed gentry. Or a massive sheep pen.

People used to live here, re-people the highlands

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

the make a good point in the article that this isn't helpful though:

Dave Barclay, the RZSS expert leading the hunt for the lynx, was furious. These animals were semi-tame and “highly habituated to people”, he said, yet had been released in deep winter. Temperatures locally had plunged below -5C (23F), with deep snow cover, and they had been released at the mouth of a forest track heavily used by logging machinery.

“All of that compromises the welfare of these animals,” he said. “It is abhorrent what has happened here, and against all international good practice.”