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Fears of ‘rogue rewilding’ in Scottish Highlands after further lynx sightings
(www.theguardian.com)
Oh no, rewilding. It's meant to be a car park.
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Or a sporting estate for the landed gentry. Or a massive sheep pen.
People used to live here, re-people the highlands
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.”
Did we finally find the missing lynx?
4 so far. I heard someone suggest perhaps 12 on the run though
Used to do family holidays in Kingussie as a kid. Love that part of the world.