Bison in Kent

[Sampo]

Saw this in the news today and I am curious as to how this will go. Maybe owing a .375 H&H Magnum in the UK might become a reality after all in about a decade or so. Hope they do spread in the years to come as they are really amazing animals and might encourage the walkers to stick to the footpath.

Bison are back in Britain: Long-lost giant will roam in Kent from today in new rewilding project featuring a bull from Germany

 

[deerstalker.308]

Doubt you’ll be shooting them with your .375 in a decade somehow…..
be interesting to see how this goes, we don’t have the expanses of forests that Eastern Europe has for them to roam in, the problem with all these rewilding projects is the lack of continuous linkage of habitat, you can make a decent sized area but it will inevitably have borders with roads/housing/cities sooner or later. But on a local scale be interesting to see how good the woods end up that they’re in.

 

[sikamalc]

Its all fenced in. Rewilding is a bit of a joke, especially in that area. There will never be free roaming Bison around Canterbury.

 

[Franchi Matt]

'Free roaming Bison' no, just roaming fake news, poor thing will be free to roam from fence line to fence line... huge success that one.

 

[User00040]

12 bore BB, a bucket of feed and a JCB will get the job done!

 

[Tim.243]

'Free roaming Bison' no, just roaming fake news, poor thing will be free to roam from fence line to fence line... huge success that one.

Muntjac got out and look were they are know, mind you a bit easier to see...thermal or no thermal

 

[Klenchblaize]

The local Travelers may need to breed a larger dog .

K

 

[LuckyEddie]

There was a herd up in Stonehaven about 8yrs ago but they were culled due to bTB.
So it’ll be interesting to see what happens if there’s any badgers around with bTB and how long the herd lasts then.

 

[Sinistral]

Muntjac got out and look were they are know, mind you a bit easier to see...thermal or no thermal

Just what you'd expect from a Daily Mail article. "Bison are back in Britain: Long-lost giant will roam in Kent from today" and "Shaggy-haired bison weighing over a ton are to be set free in Kent". The premise of this piece is wrong, as there's no long term plan for free-roaming bison.
Ever.

Wild bison return to UK for first time in thousands of years

The gentle giants released in Kent should transform a commercial pine forest into a vibrant natural woodland

www.theguardian.com

 

[Sinistral]

There was a herd up in Stonehaven about 8yrs ago but they were culled due to bTB.
So it’ll be interesting to see what happens if there’s any badgers around with bTB and how long the herd lasts then.

‘Gentle giants’: rangers prepare for return of wild bison to UK

Animals arrive in Kent in spring 2022 and will create forest clearings – described as ‘jet fuel for biodiversity’

www.theguardian.com

Really? This says this is the first UK introduction.

 

[bullet chucker]

A few strands if wire won't contain him, if he is determined.

BC.

 

[sh1kar]

‘Gentle giants’: rangers prepare for return of wild bison to UK

Animals arrive in Kent in spring 2022 and will create forest clearings – described as ‘jet fuel for biodiversity’

www.theguardian.com

Really? This says this is the first UK introduction.

Slaughter threat for Scottish bison herd - Farmers Weekly

An award-winning herd of Scottish bison faces slaughter unless it finds a new home, say its owners. Scott Shand and his wife Shelagh established their

www.fwi.co.uk

 

[LuckyEddie]

Interesting seems to have been hushed up for whatever reason.
And I can vouch that they were there as I inspected the railway viaduct at the farm and came round the corner to meet one of these giants head to head.
Not something you forget.

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[deerstalker.308]

Interesting seems to have been hushed up for whatever reason.
And I can vouch that they were there as I inspected the railway viaduct at the farm and came round the corner to meet one of these giants head to head.
Not something you forget.

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Hadn’t been hushed at all, been in the media loads over the past 12 months of so with recruitment of staff etc and sourcing the animals, been quite a lot of talk about it in the media really

 

[LuckyEddie]

Hadn’t been hushed at all, been in the media loads over the past 12 months of so with recruitment of staff etc and sourcing the animals, been quite a lot of talk about it in the media really

If you had read the article I posted, you‘d have seen I meant the Stonehaven herd and why they were slaughtered; not the Kent rewilding

 

[Sinistral]

Thank you for the link, but different species from the European.
Apparently American plains bison weren't suited to woodland, and are much more aggressive.
Didn't know that.

 

[sikamalc]

There was a herd up in Stonehaven about 8yrs ago but they were culled due to bTB.
So it’ll be interesting to see what happens if there’s any badgers around with bTB and how long the herd lasts then.

Plenty of stripies in that area. I know the whole area, I grew up in this area and most of the woodland was my play ground. Its another bloody fad, look Bison are back
I think its Kent trust for nature have also employed a Bison person to look after them. It would not take a Bison more than a couple of miles to be in the suburbs of Canterbury or Whitstable, let alone Blean. Cant see that happening anytime soon, but if it does it will be on national news, mark my words

Re wilding my arse!

 

[deerstalker.308]

If you had read the article I posted, you‘d have seen I meant the Stonehaven herd and why they were slaughtered; not the Kent rewilding

Ah apologies

 

[Dunwaters]

Thank you for the link, but different species from the European.
Apparently American plains bison weren't suited to woodland, and are much more aggressive.
Didn't know that.

European bison are more than aggressive enough to disrupt your stroll, they’re also very destructive to even mature timber and don’t respect fences or boundaries. It’ll be an interesting time for the neighbours.

 

[VSS]

There's been bison in Corwen, North Wales, for years. Lord Newborough has a herd on the Rhug Estate. If this lot in Kent are to be behind a fence then I can't see what the fuss is about - not significantly different from what we've got already.
However, if they were to be genuinely free-ranging then that's a different story altogether, and worthy of note.