Bison in Kent

[Klenchblaize]

Heavy Beaver?

K

 

[User00044]

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 .

Was there actually crowd trying to push them back in the Sea ?

 

[paul o']

By the size of some of them they had eaten most of them

 

[TokaS]

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.

Yup.. Their Bison burgers are great. Not a news story in my eyes...

 

[JohnSmith]

Maybe owing a .375 H&H Magnum in the UK might become a reality after all in about a decade or so.

This may blow your minds, as some of you lads shoot coyote sized deer with a 375… but a 308 or 30-06 are just fine for even the largest bison in the world.

 

[Puds]

Yup.. Their Bison burgers are great. Not a news story in my eyes...

I had one from their takeaway a fortnight ago on my way home from holiday.
Not bad but nothing to write home about.

 

[Woodsmoke]

 

[sh1kar]

 

[Sampo]

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Lol, hope the assault cows keeps the antis away. Maybe they can form a circle around the assault cow holding hands to save it and I will be reaching out for my camera.

 

[Heym SR20]

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

I have seen these Bison in the flesh. I use to stay in Bloemendaal when I used to visit Amsterdam on business, and have walked in the national park there. The Bison are free ranging and seem quite unbothered by people. I am sure if you bothered them, or got between a mother and a calf they could get quite cheeky. But no more or less aggressive than other free ranging cattle / bovids.

 

[Heym SR20]

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.

No better or worse than hitting any of the free ranging horses, ponies, cattle or red, sika or fallow deer.

Drive up the A9, A82 in winter the deer all come down onto the road to lick the salt (which is mixed with molasses to make it stick to the road).

I doubt the end result would be any different. Car, driver and beast will have a very bad day.

 

[Klenchblaize]

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Nuff gun!

K

 

[Pine Marten]

The have been thousands of bisons all over Birmingham for years and it never made the news. The locals just washed their hands of it.

 

[Island]

This may blow your minds, as some of you lads shoot coyote sized deer with a 375… but a 308 or 30-06 are just fine for even the largest bison in the world.

Steady on old chap!

Next you will be trying to convince us that .243Win is actually "enough gun" for Red Deer and that feral pigs will die if shot with less than .270.....

 

[Tazz]

‘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.

They mean the first one since Brexit

 

[Rafter]

Fake news.

A bison is what an Aussie washes his hands in.....

 

[JohnSmith]

Steady on old chap!

Next you will be trying to convince us that .243Win is actually "enough gun" for Red Deer and that feral pigs will die if shot with less than .270.....

Hang onto your hat! I’m gonna shoot a moose with a 6.5 creedmoor next month.

 

[Sinistral]

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.

Coming on OK . . an update on this.

First wild bison born in UK for millennia after surprise pregnancy

Exclusive: Unexpected arrival at a pioneering rewilding project in Kent after introduction of animals in July

www.theguardian.com

 

[Bavarianbrit]

Now one has dropped a calf, whoopie.

 

[Pedro]

Rewilding in the UK is, in theory no bad thing. But some of the species simply will not be able to take hold and the main reason for that is a lack of contiguous environment. Or simply a lack of environment. And why is that? It's the human population growing by the year. There's more rewilding of humans in the UK than animals. Building more housing estates on land willy-nilly. Perhaps the thing to do is to rip up the town centres, they're all dead anyway now, plant them up and let's have bison there. Maybe Basil Fawlty's vision of herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically past his hotel's windows in Torquay could become a reality.