Bison in Kent
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In the 60's and 70's my brother and I got to play in Blean woods every summer, as my relatives lived in Rough Common.
Blean Woods Nature Reserve is just over 536 hectares, so about 1,300 acres. Three bison (one from Scotland, two from Ireland) have been released into a fenced enclosure on the hottest day of the year, with another German bison due to join them. In another newspaper report recently someone dismissed concerns over safety by calling them "hairy cattle".
Not so much re-wilding, more like a petting zoo!
Blean Woods Nature Reserve is just over 536 hectares, so about 1,300 acres. Three bison (one from Scotland, two from Ireland) have been released into a fenced enclosure on the hottest day of the year, with another German bison due to join them. In another newspaper report recently someone dismissed concerns over safety by calling them "hairy cattle".
Not so much re-wilding, more like a petting zoo!
Sinistral
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I'm no expert on the European bison ('Bonarus' it tells me here) but the Dutch experience belies this.
Return of the bison: herd makes surprising comeback on Dutch coast
Endangered species can thrive in habitats other than forests, paving way for their return
www.theguardian.com
Wild Boar, farmed and a few escapes established a wild population.
Lots of captive Beavers, and escapees establishing wild populations.
Bison are on the same path, they will breed and more and more captive populations will increase the likelihood of a wild population establishing.
Bison steaks need promoting, a naural organic food scource, if we can cope with their methane producion
Lots of captive Beavers, and escapees establishing wild populations.
Bison are on the same path, they will breed and more and more captive populations will increase the likelihood of a wild population establishing.
Bison steaks need promoting, a naural organic food scource, if we can cope with their methane producion
It really is interesting this “rewilding”
To me the term means letting nature take it course with a little help of reintroducing species.
However to keep the bison in an enclosure, a bit like perk deer, is not to my mind truly wilding.
It’s not different to a normal safari park.
To me the term means letting nature take it course with a little help of reintroducing species.
However to keep the bison in an enclosure, a bit like perk deer, is not to my mind truly wilding.
It’s not different to a normal safari park.
Foxyboy43
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Deerstalking pal caught me out nicely a few years ago by leading me over the crest of a hill in Perthshire and watching me as I glassed the hillside for reds. Of course and exactly as planned I spotted the herd of the biggest damned things on four legs I have ever seen and very nearly had a rather childish accident! Turned out the local deer farm had expanded to include bison in their rearing - still there so must be doing ok for them. You get a real appreciation of their dimensions stood near to a stag.
There was a small herd near Dalmally about ten years ago, the farmer wanted rid of them so he let people shoot them for a not inconsiderable sum.
Just been listening to a very jolly and enthusiastic “Bison Ranger on BBC Radio 4’s “World At One” news program.
Sure sounds like a tuff job!
K
Sure sounds like a tuff job!
K
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Foxyboy43
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timbrayford
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Perhaps they could replace the domestic large herbivores in the New Forest? It might discourage too many ramblers and dog walkers from Southampton visiting the area?
Free range rob
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From what I’ve seen and read, the whole rewilding thing is a joke, it’s all managed, farming on one level or another and not wild, certainly not unmanaged, and not free to roam.
Just a politically correct way of saying you farm something different, gain grants and funding and receive plenty of back patting.
It seems to be all roaming around Kent.
Yup , all that poop collecting and fence checking . Poor soul will be exhausted looking after the 3 of them , think of the stress when the bull arrives .
You're clearly getting mixed up with Moose or European Elk as opposed to European Bison . Easy mistake !Also Plenty down on the beach today
spannulman
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The forest would be great for them. But they would wreck any car that hit one. But it might be a good habitat- heathland and woodland. Is Poland a little like that? Germany is.
spannulman
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I don’t know that American bison are as savage as a previous poster claims. I was I Yellowstone about ten years ago and went to a town called west Yellowstone on our way out and saw bison outside the town hall, on the grass. And later, having had dinner in a bar , saw one outside in the parking lot of a supermarket. Neither beast showed any aggression but we did give them a wide berth just in case. But seriously, a huge bison in a scruffy gravel parking lot behind a bar. Not what you expect to see.
paul o'
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With all that blubber and oil and lycra flopping around on the sand ! I can agree I could make them out or could I define the species they could have even been pilot whales .
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