Elk in Scotland again?

[alberta boy]

I sense a lot of negativity

Did you not read the bit where it says they are fenced in and simply could not escape

So it's clearly a completely reversible decision and we could easily just round them all up if we decided differently

That had better be a really good fence lol .
AB

 

[Tim.243]

I sense a lot of negativity

Did you not read the bit where it says they are fenced in and simply could not escape

So it's clearly a completely reversible decision and we could easily just round them all up if we decided differently

Muntjac escaped not so long ago in the history of deer in the UK and very few places they have not reached so your fence theory is up a creek lol
Granted they are large but I have seen 20 reds/fallow melt away in the swapping of spotter to scope

 

[Essexsussex]

Think we should reintroduce Atlantic salmon to Scottish rivers first.

 

[ofbiro]

Think we should reintroduce Atlantic salmon to Scottish rivers first.

That is, for me, a much wiser idea. In the '800 it was a sort of fashion to import several foreign species, from Father David Deer to Wapiti or whitetail in U.K. and continental.
Europe. It seems that the lesson taught by Australian rabbits and myxomatosis has gone forgotten.

 

[Essexsussex]

That is, for me, a much wiser idea. In the '800 it was a sort of fashion to import several foreign species, from Father David Deer to Wapiti or whitetail in U.K. and continental.
Europe. It seems that the lesson taught by Australian rabbits and myxomatosis has gone forgotten.

We still have some.
It is a tongue-in-cheek comment to make the point we should look after what we have a bit better before we start again with species.

 

[John Gryphon]

The Wapiti in NZ were left alone for a long time before licences to kill were issued. Some Incredible Heads came out of there.

The History Of The New Zealand Wapiti Herd |

28 August 2023 Hunting and Wildlife Magazine - Winter Issue 221 Words By: Simon Gibson Phil Maurice’s great wapiti head is listed…

www.deerstalkers.org.nz

 

[Freeforester]

I sense a lot of negativity

Did you not read the bit where it says they are fenced in and simply could not escape

So it's clearly a completely reversible decision and we could easily just round them all up if we decided differently

Puts me in Mind of the fence made at inordinate expense c/o SNH’s designation of a Ross shire corrie (to keep the deer away from dwarf montane vegetation); the fence was duly erected, and the great and the good were bussed in to view the fruits of their decision in the summer.
The ensuing winter saw the fence destroyed by snowfall.
It was certainly an ex-closure after that.

 

[Scuffy]

Agreed, I thought the reintroduction of Kites was a good thing but they seem to have no cap on when to stop, still going on and hundreds around now, total overpopulation because we humans got involved and messed with it.

We humans drove them to near extinction

 

[Ratel]

We humans drove them to near extinction

Must say, watching them take day old mallard off a pond like an Osprey, we should have carried on.

 

[WW.]

Puts me in Mind of the fence made at inordinate expense c/o SNH’s designation of a Ross shire corrie (to keep the deer away from dwarf montane vegetation); the fence was duly erected, and the great and the good were bussed in to view the fruits of their decision in the summer.
The ensuing winter saw the fence destroyed by snowfall.
It was certainly an ex-closure after that.

Always wondered how these fenced reintroduction areas fit with right to roam.