Survey - attitudes towards a hypothetical fenced wolf reintroduction
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Pete1774
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Introducing wolves into an overcrowded island like the UK is just plain daft. They won't stay fenced for long and then we'll have farm livestock being killed and probably humans eventually. If the wolves are fenced in then how are they going to catch deer? The fenced area would need to be massive and would effectively be a no-go area for people. The ever increasing number of wild boar should be a lesson learned.
No need to actually introduce wolves at all. Just build up loads of hype about it, plenty of scare stories about people being killed and eaten, throw in a bit of the supernatural for good measure (werewolves), and then announce "we've done it!" in as convincing a manner as possible.
Rural crime would fall instantly, as would trespass in the countryside. The "right to roam" would be abandoned. The Rambler's Association would hold all it's gatherings indoors, and groups of disruptive youths would go home in the evenings instead of hanging around the village bus shelter.
Bring it on, I say!
devon deer stalker
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For god's sake save us from these over educated fools with zero common sense.
I suggest she gets some cash together (I'm sure she could raise it through a gofundme account from like minded fools) and take a flight over to the western states of America, any input @Muir ?
Great solution, deer first, then sheep, then peoples dogs....
Fenced area, what a joke, the Beavers that appeared on the river Otter were supposed to be 'fenced' and look what happened down here.
I suggest she gets some cash together (I'm sure she could raise it through a gofundme account from like minded fools) and take a flight over to the western states of America, any input @Muir ?
Great solution, deer first, then sheep, then peoples dogs....
Fenced area, what a joke, the Beavers that appeared on the river Otter were supposed to be 'fenced' and look what happened down here.
Rake Aboot
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Good reason for a 45-120 Sharps?
Scotty99
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Wolves were hunted to extinction on these islands several hundred years ago for a reason, they were a continuing threat to humans and their livestock. Nothing has changed apart from the fact that the human population has increased exponentially and the available habitat has decreased exponentially. So no reason even to consider it.
Some years back wolves were released in an area of Sweden close to the Norwegian border where some friends of mine lived, at the time shooting a wolf in Norway would get you a term in the clink. Inevitably the wolves didn't respect the border & soon migrated to Norway where they decided it was a lot easier to catch & eat sheep than it was deer, elg, etc. In the area I was invited to hunt in two local farmers were arrested & given jail sentences for shooting wolves. Roll on 5 years & my Norwegian hunting licence included wolves!
Just saying.
Just saying.
BenBhoy
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I've completed, yeah some seem to swap the order of your flow a bit
A much more exciting accident though!
John Gryphon
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Aided no doubt by "accidental releases"
A .220 Swift will do you far better.
Best answer yet.
Yes exactly, in 10 years time getting a wolf licence would be great.
Utter lunacy ! There are very good reasons we got rid and now we have a far-far higher human population cars and roads and a vast amount of our grassland has sheep and cows on it !
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