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Imaginary wolves have been huffing and puffing through generations of folklore. Genuine wild wolves, on the other hand, have been absent from Britain for around 200 years. Is it time for them to come home? Phil braves attacks from rampant dogs on Ilkely Moor in an attempt to find out. Could be muddy…
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Bring back wolves, bears, lynx and boar.
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Guardian of the Night We already have boars..
@@dfhgh-bz2xh in very few places
Freddy we still have boars tho
They cause big problems to farmers i mean if you gonna pay for all of the damage each year then sure but it would be nice to see them around
I live in a forest in Sweden and there's wolves outside my house every night and I would be really sad if they would disappear. Even leave food outside for them that I don't want so they stick around. I have met them in the forest many times both during the day and the night and when I've been chopping wood outside my home and I don't perceive them as a treat at all. They can make really ghostly sounds but they have never been aggressive. You eighter hear them from far away barking and howling getting closer or just appear quietly and eighter just run by ignoring me or they hang around at a healthy distance for a while and then leave. If you have animals you should bring them inside during the night though.
They're scoping you out. Buy a big gun
@@truck5050 haha they're alright. Met them on a trail at night where it was very dense forest and they just walked up to me and I stepped aside and they walked past so close I could smell them. They stopped for like a sec and sniffed in my direction and then continued down the trail I came from and didn't even look back. I think they feel my intentions and that I'm very relaxed. They kind of have a schedule and so do I and sometimes we just cross paths. I have dug out a few caves under boulders for them to have as shelter and I leave them leftovers from butchered game there regularly so they will hopefully be fed enough to not try to dig inside where I have animals.
Love wolves too, but hard pass on leaving food. Once they associate you with food and lose their natural fear of humans, it can be a VERY serious problem to have on your hands. Wolves (at least Timberwolves are) are notorious for quickly losing their fear of humans once food is associated with them, especially for lone wolves. Where I live the game warden has to release them after a routine amount of time to disassociate them from humans. If they continue the behavior, they are humanely euthanized.
Please, enjoy the wolves, but do not feed them. Let them stay wild.
Shhhh according to british farmers people who like living with wolves don't exist
@@GrayDogNowIDK I would love to live with wolves and I'm from the UK, myth debunked
Its a great idea to reintroduce them back into the wild of Scotland, most people only fear them because of stories they've read and films they have watched they aren't as vicious as they have percieved to be.
+Jamie Hurst Glad you've watched the video and joined the debate! You might be interested to learn how people lived alongside wolves (or not) in Yellowstone: goo.gl/uUznZY
I know they did, wolves are my favourite animal and I detest what happens to them over in USA with the hunters
Are you crazy? Wolves used to attack travellers. Fact. No misconceptions.
LOL. Say your mountain walking in the Highlands and you encounter a hungry lone male who hasn't eaten for 3 days. Would he be vicious? Or would he kill you gently?
Herodotus Farmer a very valid point. That necessitates precautions both on there part of the individual, and the part of the state. Usually, this is where the local ecologist comes in, providing location data to all concerned, and tools and knowledge to avoid or defend oneself. That's the ideal ecologist, someone who equally and effectively protects both the animal and human populations. In a scenario like the one you described, if there is a way to make the wolf look for an easier meal elsewhere, that's the goal. If not, it's regrettable, but in that case the human life is more important.
I'm from Scottish highlands and I say yes
We totally should do that!!! We should also reintroduce bears and lynxes. Where they mainly should be reintroduced are Scotland and Ireland.
Yeah, it sure would be an amazing sight.
@@herodotus6235 that's why he said put them in Scotland and Ireland lol
“Tuck”? Are you a friar? 🤣 I don’t understand what you mean. Scotland particularly has some of the most beautiful scenery in Britain. If you put wolves in it, nobody would go there ever again.
Herodotus Farmer actually wolves very rarely will attack people. And if wolves return the red deer can go down in population (along with hunters which already are trying to help out). Trees will grow more if the deer are brought down because they eat all the saplings.
Hello from Finland. We have a few hundred wolves here. They don't attack humans, but unfortunately they do regularly kill ponies, sheep and cattle, and also dogs. So before you reintroduce them, be sure there's a good plan about how to deal with the imminent killed house animals. Also have a good talking relations with the ordinary people who live in the area where they are about to be released. You need to have them feel positive or at least accepting about it for it to be successful. Otherwise they'll fear for themselves, their children and their animals and poach the wolves. You are really going to need the community, so be respectful and listen to them and their worries.
Hi, thanks very much for your comments, very insightful and good to have a non-UK perspective!
Eco Sapien You're welcome and thanks for the videos, very glad to see people have this kind of ambitions and plans in UK.
Or, a better solution could be (maybe) to just simply not reintroduce them. Would that not be the wise thing to do????!!!! Oh no, because we have this international biodiversity agenda from our UN gods and we have to obey them. They are the ONE (UN) so they decide what our truth is. So screw the ordinary folks and bring back those monsters.
Anna Marianne Also some farmer may use some dog breeds to scare away wolves such as Irish wolfhound
Anna Marianne Probably because you have killed off so many Deer and other prey animals that they have to turn to domestic animals.
I'd like to see it, also lynx and bears too. They were here before we decided to hunt them all. What a sham
Yes and all the big boys like
Moose, elk, highland cow, reindeer, bison too
Bears are bad they will hurt humans unlike lynx and wolves
Bears would be far too dangerous to introduce. But wolves and lynx would be okay. Although I think the most realistic and most likely one to be reintroduced is the Eurasian lynx
@@kaidenhall2718 yep bears also won’t mind coming into urban areas and going through people’s bins. It happens in America. But wolves and lynx will usually stick to the forest
Please bring them back to the UK. They're so amazing. If I was in Scotland, I would tell farmers and children the truth about wolves before reintroducing them to the Scottish highlands. Maybe farmers can put electric fences around their farms to keep predators away from their livestock to make money. I know electric fences are very expensive, but Scottish farmers have got to come up with something to protect their livestock from predators.
Large dog's work very well against wolves and scare them off even most of llamas would work
Yeah they could have Tamaskans defending the sheep
Tasmanian devil's would be so cool.
I think it's a good idea to bring wolves back to scotland
Hi +The Tater Squad glad you've engaged with the debate! You might be interested in this article from our archives on the subject of reintroductions: www.ecosapien.org/#!Reintroductions-and-Translocations-in-Conservation/cyxt/71325644-20B3-435F-A202-EE611EE10294
and Ireland.
I see Deer in some Glasgow council schemes/estates lol. They're everywhere now, obviously due to having no predators in the UK.
The panthers would be upset with you
@@kaidenhall2718 I haven't seen any panthers in the UK yet
We all want it but, there simple is not enough woodland and natural habitat for the wolves.
Plant more.
Isn't there remote places in the Highlands
It's a good idea to bring wolves back to Great Britain.
Why?
@@TomTheSaintsGuy Because they can restore the balance of nature and keep the deer population in check.
Zubair Aleem there’s barely any deers anyway
But you're the ones who hunted them to extinction and ye also hunted ours in Ireland to extinction with Cromwell and the fur trade.
@@captainstu there is way way to many deer
I’m from Dunfermline but spend my time outside, I say yes and just think they have been here before, I want a wild scotland
My Best friend which I met 3 weeks ago, moved to Australia (My country) from England when she was six. She claims to have owned a pet wolf. Wolves are both our favorite animals! They are ADORABLE!! A shame they don't have them in Australia 😭😭😭😭
But you do have them in Australia. You have dingoes which are practically wolves
Yes bring them back!
The wolf will bring a huge amount of natural balance to wildlife and also. I have seen lynx.
So don't give me that.
I live in the United States in the State of Maryland and we have reports of
them in my State and it makes me happy and excited to have them here .
I’m from the Forest of Dean and here we have large woodland areas and personally I would love to see more animals re introduced since the beaver has been successful I’d love to see bear lynx wolves and maybe moose be reintroduced
They definitely can. Farmers and the public are just too ignorant to let them. We could easily keep sheep safe with no deaths on both sides while having our lovely wolves back.
We should start with picking a big Scottish island in the outer Hebrides and make it a wolf haven, and see how it goes, they have to be wild though.
Bring em' back!!
+Rory Cummins Hi, thought you might want to see a case study of how wolves were treated in Yellowstone National Park: goo.gl/uUznZY
Thanks. You do know, when you were in Yorkshire, you were near where I live. I don't live in ilkley, I live in Shipley. Cool eh?
+Rory Cummins It's a small world! The area where we filmed provided a nice contrast to our normal stomping ground of Rounday Park. The Scots Pine trees and heather moorland are a great backdrop!
Cool!
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Very informative video! I wrote an essay on potential wolf reintroduction a few years ago, extremely interesting topic, hopefully we see success with the Lynx.
+Matt Jarvis you might want to check out this project: www.lynxuk.org/
Ah yes I have been keeping up to date with progress! Fingers crossed :)
I am watching this video because in about to write an essay about this
an excellent vid, tough decission, the farmers would cause uproar, but i would like to see them come back, large strong fences needed for the farmers. i raise a small amount of live stock for personal use and live in a forest area with deer. less venison on the menu if they come do back.
Can you do another reintroduction video of otters to Japan and make another playlist of species reintroductions?
Greetings from the United States. A few comments if I may..
First, your heart is in the right place, but Scotland is not ready yet for the wolf, and not for the reasons you think. The godawful truth is that a Godzilla sized tree planting effort must be put in effect. Bigger than what is happening now. And a lot of farmers and wealthy landowners are going to have to put a bullseye on their John Brown hindparts so asses can be vigorously kicked. They were part of the reason the beasts disappeared before and they need to be told that they have to adjust to a new reality.
Second, a better idea would be to first reintroduce the boar and just let it happen where that is concerned. Pumbaa must come home. People forget one fact about Pumbaa piggy and his buddies: THEY ARE CHAMPS AT POOPING. Boar are omnivorous. They snuffle the ground with their snoots looking for mushrooms, tubers, bugs, the occasional small animal. They might try to take a fawn if they can get away with it. They also love acorns. OAK acorns. And they will eat beech nuts and chestnuts and hawthorn and bilberry and many others, some of them grown scarce in Scotland. Mr. Pumbaa will trot off, miles away, and indeed he will poop. His poop will be a nice fertilizer for the seeds he swallowed and transport the seed of trees and plants wherever he goes in autumn. Get out your calculator and multiply that by many hundreds of piggies: more saplings and more diverse trees and the beginnings of forest popping out of the ground. More piggies tilling the soil and potentially uncovering long locked up seedstock that cannot germinate without help. Those barren hillsides will get a push, sprouting vegetation, and force deer to congregate in other places as new trees start shooting up. In time wild boar will be numerous enough to provide a second food source for larger predators like wolves. The trees will be required to boost biodiversity.
Third, a few animals are going to need to be secured, like birds that lay eggs on the ground. Wolves will eat those. They like eggs. They like to eat the babies. It would be best to wait for some numbers to go up and to breed and release them so if wolves come back the hit they will take won't be as bad.
Last, and very important, WOLVES CANNOT READ. They won't be able to read the sign that says, "Welcome to England." Assuming they will stay only in Scotland is the wrong assumption and there has to be a contingency plan in place to deal with what happens when one shows up outside of York with puppies and a mate. You mentioned Yellowstone. What you do not know is that they didn't stay there. Over the years they spread north to Montana and Idaho, west to Washington State and Oregon, and now are forming packs in Northern California. Biologists in Colorado, Nevada, and Utah are standing by, believing it is only a matter of time and have their hands hovering over the button that rolls out the welcome home party. One Northern California pack has been photographed with a litter of fat, healthy puppies just this past July. All babies are still alive. If they themselves reach old age and form their own packs, if wolves continue to migrate from Oregon and Idaho, the Nevada border is not all that far away. The wildlife officials in CA are pretty sure that they will also continue south towards San Francisco and Sacramento as the food is plentiful and the Sierra Nevada Mountains will help them slip unnoticed (they are also very good swimmers, so rivers will do nothing to stop them and it is false that they need forests to survive.)
I am not saying they should never return. I am just saying it is not time yet. Yellowstone had an environment that was less disturbed to begin with. The time is soon, but first, trees and boars and plants. And once they do come, it would not take much for them to head for the coast and hop from island to island until they found a spot where they could swim to England. Life always finds a way.
Good reasoning, and explained with good humour. But wolves swimming from Scotland to England?
As far as I'm aware the forests in the UK as a whole are ideal for Wolves. Particularly in Scotland. I'm not Scottish but the Scottish wilderness is incredibly dense with woodland and forests from what I've seen when I have visited or researched the Country in the past. Also Scotland and England is a land border, so I'm not sure Wolves would need to swim :)
We should return wolves back in The UK and Ireland. There were also brown bears, lynxes, and beavers that also used to live there. The last wolf of Ireland was killed in 1786.
Beavers are still in the UK.
In France we can see wolves and lynx on our ski stations at night XD ! And even in brittany !!!!!! In my opinion, Wolf would be a good predator in scotland and could generate wildlife tourism... and if tomorrow wolf is reintroduce, i will be the first to visit Scotland ! ♡
when the fuck will they do it looks like the government wants Scotland to be a boring ass shitty ass plane ass place
Class video👍
Nice rational, balanced presentation of the issues.
Omg are you kidding me!! bring back those wolves to me those beautiful wolves
You would be unlikely to see one in your lifetime even if they were released back into the Wild.
I spend most of my time in the wild and would love to see them re-introduced into the wild so yeah why not bring them back
You do understand we're not talking about otters or Robins, right? If you're alone in the wilderness and you meet a hungry male, it will most likely attack you. Particularly at night.
:D:D oh man you really believe that??
@@herodotus6235 you know jack shit about wolves, and don't be such a baby
I didn’t think I knew that much. But evidently I know more than you.
@@herodotus6235 You're a farmer you're going to say anything to save your profits
Simple answer is yes, introduce 20 north of Loch Ness and you'd need about 35 miles of monitored lochside/canalside south of the line, requiring about 15-20 rangers for control (3 shifts + absence cover) and volunteer effort shouldn't be difficult to find. The area is almost uninhabited compared to the rest of the country and covers nearly 9000 square miles, most of which is not particularly productive land. Decrease deer culling north of loch ness over time to maintain prey levels and take a solid approach on transgressions of the boundaries (repatriation where possible/euthanasia for repeaters). Additionally limit wolf numbers to less than 100-150 by selective culling/sterilization (we happily neuter cats and dogs all the time). Due to the inaccessibility of the landscape accidental encounters with humans should be few and easily controlled by GPS monitoring. You have a gift of a natural boundary in scotland, make use of it for wildlife tourism and make money. It'll aid recovery of natural forest, increase biodiversity, bring in tourism and revenue with little/no risk to people and is fairly easily managed compared to most re-introductions. You'll get a further benefit in that the overall health of deer population will increase as the predators take out the weakest and oldest, not the "trophy stags" targetted by current hunting. Ground nesting birds may be a concern but effects would be limited by control of wolf numbers. As for sheep, use local compensation schemes funded through tourism income. An average grey wolf consumes about 2-7 pounds of meat per day, so for 100 wolves who ate ONLY sheep that would be about 1500 average weight adult sheep per year (there are 6.5 million sheep in scotland with a natural variance of up to 25% due to weather/disease). In reality most sheep consumption would be sourced through consumption of natural carrion which is fairly abundant due to the harsh life of a highland sheep, so the effects on live animals should not be a concern.
As the landscape recovers over time and forest re-growth occurs, Lynx and boar would be viable re-introduction projects for the area also, with boar having additional economic benefits through meat production. I do not see eurasian brown bears as a viable re-introduction species except in fenced enclosures but would happily be proved wrong.
Where does the data for wolf MVP and area they would need come from?
graet vid thanks for shearing
If farmers want to protect their livestock when wolves are around they could opt to obtain dogs, dogs that were specifically bread for this task.
Population expansion and overgrazing near wolf habitat may make fear of wolves real since by expanding to wolf territories trees will decrease, their prey will decrease and hence livestock being preyed on by wolves. But wolves preying on livestock can be controlled by use of fences or dogs like Irish wolfhound. So population and livestock management can enable coexistence between humans and wolves.
Is good for the balanc predther end prey
wolves are great beasts they dont deserve to be extinct bring them back
Good idea for just about every reason you said
Bring them all back but protect them this time around.
It's a good idea please !! Not only to Scotland but to the rest of the UK as well I live in ingland we need are wolves Back JC 🐺
Thanks the more people understand the better are wolves will be thank you all j 🐺
when will they do it they keep talking about it but not doing anything about it and i live in England too
I swear I saw a pack of wolves in Cannock chase, Staffordshire. It was at night i was walking back to camp passing through a small valley when my torch catches the eye shine of 12-20 animals just standing around next to each other. I didn't really know what i was looking at until i saw the eyes bopping up and down and blinking. The animals where about the size of small-medium wolves the eye shine was yellow in colour. They didn't do anything they just stared as i passed, i can't think of any other animal around that size that forums packs in that number. Maybe dogs but you don't really get wild dogs in England, especially out in the countryside.
So maybe wolves didn't die out completely or someone has "unofficially" reintroduced them in small numbers. Or there's a pack of large dogs roaming around Staffordshire..
Hi there, that sounds like an amazing experience! There's a high chance they might be some sort of deer. I'm not sure what type of deer you get in your local area, but fallow deer are quite small, about the size of a very large dog...
Eco Sapien I don't think it could have been deer, the animals i saw had front facing eyes and the deer on the chase are very nervous of humans. They'll see you from a short distance and start running even if they're in a large group. I suppose more grounded explanation would be wild/feral dogs, a lot of dogs go missing in the area they might have formed a pack!
i will love wolves in the uk i really hope wolves come and they walk around BUT I HOPE THEY WILL BE FRENDILY
XxᴋɴsᴛxX they will be
wolves have every right to live . they was here before us
Actually we evolved along side each over
@@kaidenhall2718 In England wolves were here first though I believe, while humans originated from an ape in Africa some of which migrated to the UK
@@theworthysoul wolves is a football team in England
I think we should bring them back
What if they introduce Tamaskans as a compromise either instead of the wolves or to defend livestock from the wolves?
Nice work..... I say bring em back 👍👍👍
So that they will eat you!
The Scottish highlands and Ireland are the prefect places for wolves to be reintroduced. The highest places in England and Wales are also the perfect places.
Campers and walkers will provide that.
tribulationsaint 202 there are plenty of Deer and Stags for them to feed on up there.
@@herodotus6235 wolves are shy animals
@@herodotus6235 Most wolves don't attack humans willingly. The ones that do usually have rabies, are defending their kill (they think you are going to steal their lunch) or if female might be trying to defend her den full of babies. There are zillions of them in Idaho and the Rocky Mountains; they have long since expanded since their return to Yellowstone in Wyoming 25 years ago. *To my knowledge there have been less than ten true attacks in all those years, and they happen when somebody does something mind bogglingly stupid.*. Think of an idiot who finds a pup in the bushes and thinks it is cute, calls it Mr Fluffybumbum. He is then surprised when Mama and Daddy wolf hunt his ass down for taking their baby, leading a pack of eight other wolves like the velociraptors from Jurassic Park. If he had only continued on his way, well, he would not be having his left leg reattached in hospital and would not be on the news as the stupidest man in a thousand mile radius. (Everybody in the Rocky Mountains knows NEVER to get near those puppies. You may look with binoculars from far away, but a baby wild animal usually means Dad or Mama is not far away.)
That being said, walkers and campers would have to adjust their ways. I will not lie. For example, children out with adults on the hike have to be taught to stay close to their parents or Scout leaders when wolves are around. This is the ONLY part of the Grimm's Fairy Tales that holds a shred of truth. Kids must not go into the woods alone; the world of Christopher Robin must stay in the past. Stories like Red Riding Hood and Hansel and Gretel got popular in the Middle Ages. People are still afraid of the Big Bad Wolf because of these tales.
But the people of the Middle Ages did not understand that if the nobility is gluttonously slaughtering the wild boar and deer, the wolves are going hungry with their prey being taken away. And they were terrified of man, since nobles hunted wolves as trophies. With natural prey dwindling, wolves would have sought food elsewhere...among the peasants who raised livestock, and given their status as vermin they would have had a maul first ask questions later attitude. Those wolves that stayed in the forests of Germany would have seen a peasant child trying to collect nuts and berries like a little chicken McNugget with legs. The peasants did not know any better. The whole of European society did not understand the wolves they lived with or the balance of nature; Darwin was centuries away and John Muir too. They made a monster.
But today, we know. Millions of people live and visit the Rocky Mountains of Canada and the USA. Everyone there has all their limbs. Skiers, whitewater kayakers, hikers, and campers can go years without seeing one. Ranchers have to make simple adjustments like electric fences or high stone walls to protect Old Bessie and the sheep, which hands down is the stupidest of all farmyard animals (At least pigs will put up a fight...)
Thankyou for your detailed and entertaining reply, it was much appreciated. But haven’t you just confirmed everything I said? The UK is not like the US. For generations we have been accustomed to being completely relaxed even in our most wild and remote areas. I have no desire whatsoever to “adjust my ways” thankyou very much.
I think its a good idea. Is it also true that bears used to live in the uk? And if it is do you think it would be a good idea to reintroduce them?
Hi +TheGr8RiX, yes it is true that bears used to live in the UK but we think it's probably a bad idea to reintroduce them. They require huge areas of habitat, the likes of which exist in Romania, Polands etc, but which unfortunately are not present in the UK anymore. While we'd love to go on a bear watching trip in Scotland, we don't think it will happen in our life times!
Lynxes also used to live there!
LOL. And could I sign up to be their first meal?
Herodotus Farmer You're a fucking idiot
Great idea
Glad you think so!
I personally want wolves back because they are my favourite animal
bring them back theyre amazing
I don't know if your icon represents you or not, but if it does, I imagine a Wolf would find you very tasty.
@@herodotus6235 why are you so against the reintroduction
Good idea
Give public money to an industry that is only functioning because of all of the public money that is given to them because it is unprofitable? No. Stop the farm subsidies, phase out animal agriculture, rewild the uplands and start eco-tourism. It would be beneficial for the local economy and better for the environment and the animals that live there.
Utilizing predatory species, like wolves, is a good idea but for Western Europeans and Eastern Americans it would require intensive management. Yellowstone began with a little over a dozen and the population exploded; with this knowledge we know we'd have to control wolf populations so that they'd maintain proper ranges. Eurasian Lynx may be a good alternative but ultimately larger predators would be needed to cull deer populations because I doubt an adult lynx would hunt an adult Red Deer, but I don't know the hunting behaviors of lynx. Another prime place that I believe could use large predators is Oostvaardersplassen, NL. There, the population of Red Deer and Konik Horses have run riot and annual culling requirements can reach 25%.
P.S. I'm enjoying your videos guys!
You know, it would be best to reintroduce wolves to Britain than lynxes. I'm not saying we shouldn't reintroduce lynxes, but wolves are more social animals and would repopulate more, and lynxes are solitary animals and sometimes hunt in pairs.
The Eurasian Lynx is very effective hunting deer, at least from what I've read and watched about them.
Wolves used to be in the UK for thousands of years
Bring them back
Yes Wolves Should defiently be Reintroduced
Already here
Eco Sapien hi I manage CZcams channel on japan wolf association I’m hoping that I can put subtitles on this and also edit the video and post on our channel
Its a good idea
That makes wild camping a bit more exciting
Bring back the lynx and the wolf. Its a nice idea, though the fear of encountering a wolf pack is not unwarranted. I don't get any rush of enthusiasm for returning bears into the wold though. The only euro-centric folklore I've turned over about those was ever of the variety "beautiful girl alone in woods tragically killed and eaten by huge bear" type. Lone human suddenly encounters a bear in the woods, its always a horror ending. Girl grows up happy and full of life goes off to pick flowers or something. Bumps into de Bruin. Comes home half-eaten and totally dead. This tale repeats over and over, the typical fate of a woods gal is to get eaten by a bear. For men its usual to stub a toe and nick themselves shaving, thus attracting the attentions of a pack of wolves...
We need to reintroduce wolves
Omg online school homework 😅
Humans caused the extinction of Bears too !
But bears are to dangerous
@@kaidenhall2718 Yes.
@@kaidenhall2718 So are Wolves.
And Northern Ireland
Say if this did happen, who or what will deal with a wolf population when that gets out of hand.
Nature? Same it has done for several millions of years?
Love the wolf bring them back
I like the idea of reintroducing extinct animals back to the UK. But Wolves do pose a serious threat to livestock. One of the main reasons why farmers in the 18th and 19th century didn’t immigrate to Canada and America is because their livestock would be a lot safer in the UK. Of course NGOs could foot the bill, but is the cost seriously worth the benefit
A word from Montana, create a trust fund to compensate stock growers at full market value.
That’s a comb over!
I'm ok with bringing back wolves to the UK, I'd be more worried about them being displaced because a lot of new housing estates are being built on animal habbitats, it was about two years ago one night I couldn't sleep and I couldn't believe I saw a baby deer come really close into town it was near the local cemetary in town it was probably the first time I'd ever seen a deer come that close into town the poor thing must've lost it's when the new housing estates were being built
Lynx would be a better choice as they don’t run in packs committing killing sprees
We need to bring back the woolly rhino and the triceratops
@Yo Yo _ is a god it's a joke
If we bring them back we need to let people have firearms to defend themselves.
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I doubt wolves will mess with people much
It is a good idea I love Wolf 💖💖💖💖💖
Before hunting
make a park with fences. like other national parks.
0:07 yes i have 4 spirit 1 soul and 2 are wolves 0:41
Bring them back!
I want them to bring back wolves. They are beautiful and wonderful animals. The farmers could be compensated and also use humane and non-lethal methods to “protect”* their farmed animals, such as electric fences and the use of guns to frighten the wolves away, and the use of (rescued and well-cared for and well-loved) guard dogs that would be trained to bark, growl and chase away the wolves instead of hurting or killing when possible.
Yes, wolf attacks on deer are brutal, but they also help the deer by keeping the numbers down naturally so that they don’t overgraze and then starve or get killed by humans. They also benefit the deer by killing the injured, sick and old deer, ensuring that they are not left suffering for days/weeks/months/longer.
Wolves are a vital apex predator. They also greatly appeal to people, such as goths, wolfaboos, furries, otherkin, therians, werewolf fans and others who just love wolves and dogs.
did i discovered this video too late?
They were here before us who are we to say no to them coming back
Has anyone ever thought about the range of a pack of wolves? Try Wales? As everyone knows, predators are inherently lazy and sheep are much easier to catch than deer.
don't bring back the Lynx youd have more trouble keeping them away from sheep in comparison to wolves seeing as they would just leap over any walls you put up
Nope, lynx HATE going into the open and remain in the forest. I suggest you research lynx
I'd love to introduce Kangaroos to the UK. Probably a bad idea but it would be great to see.
Bring them back to me!!!
+Katie Wigglesworth Hi there, thought you might be interested in our other wolf video: goo.gl/uUznZY - enjoy!
We totally should! They also used to live in the Netherlands and other European countries.
I don't see this happening. British farmers would need a couple of more billion braincells and basic literacy to understand this
We have Dingoes here in Australia, a small but closely related member of the Wolf family. Anyone who thinks that Wolves don't attack humans especially children should do some serious research into Dingoes.
There's a big difference between wolves and dingoes. Dingoes come from feral East Asian dogs (look up korean jindo), so they are predisposed to not having fear of humans. Wolves however have a very healthy fear of humans. I live in an area with wolves and I have literally never heard of an attack on humans here. You cannot compare two different animals.
@@TheFlippyNioa It's always interesting to learn that dingoes are native to East Asia. Which means, if dingoes were released into the wilds of East Asia (well, whichever parts of East Asia they originated from) they won't damage the ecosystem.
I suspect rabies is not far off coming to the UK along with some of the other nasty diseases with all the recent incomes.
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I think reintroducing wolves is a good idea
bring em back
I think yes because it will be in there habitat again but no because it can kill people or attack them
Its very rare to see a wolf let alone attack you
No.. im afraid of them
still waiting
save the wolfs
Deer are a very good source of healthy wild meat and an income stream across the UK. No need for any more apex predators.
"any more apex predators" you say that as if the UK has ANY apex predators. And there is a need for apex predators (ever heard of this thing called the ecosystem, before?)
@@hyenaboy7504 We are the ultimate apex predators and in many ways much better at it as we have alternative food sources and won't always take the easy options.
I agree to wolf's coming back. I would be happy to offer live stock as a good well offering because as stated we are the ones that got rid of them in the first place. Humans are to GREEDY