No, because cunt farmers would kill them even if they posed no threat to their livestock.
We can’t even reintroduce various raptor birds because they’ll get shot or poisoned.
No
Feck it, bring back the bears.
Lynx belong in Africa. I can practically smell it.
Can we stop farmers dumping slurry into our rivers? How about that first?
Regrow forests first.
Lynxes are more likely. I can see the Indo headlines already though “Green’s Beast Savages Farmers Stock”.
We need an actual ecosystem to reintroduce them into too. Get sheep off “common” land in national parks and you start solving that problem.
We need to focus on reforestation first
To where exactly? Farmers fields aint going to cut it….
My gut feeling is that Ireland doesn’t have enough wilderness, or enough prey animals, to sustain any semblance of a livable wolf population. Wolves mixed with livestock, which Ireland has a lot of, is also bad – when hunting wild prey wolves are very efficient predators, but when hunting domestic prey they will frequently kill more than they need in a frenzy. It wouldn’t be fair to farmers to introduce that kind of menace to their livelihood.
Lynxes, on the other hand, are solitary predators who can cover wide ranges of territory and who are relatively discreet, they will not (to my knowledge) ever pose a danger to humans. They are opportunistic and are stealth predators, vs endurance like wolves are, so are less likely to decimate livestock herds. Lynxes I could see being a possibility if a large predator was needed to recalibrate the environment.
I don’t fancy walking into a pack of wolves when I’m out on a hike
If the eagles couldn’t manage it without being killed off by cunt farmers in their droves I don’t think the wolves or lynx would have a chance.
We don’t have organised fox hunts here the way the rich Brits do (although they still happen the rare time) but we have an _awful_ lot of farmers and rural types who get a kick out of killing and happily spend long nights out with rifles and cheap night vision scopes killing foxes, badgers and the likes under the cover of dark.
Wolves and lynx would become target number one for them.
I am from a farming background and would be in favour of bringing wolves and lynx. Foxes and badgers are our current top predators. The deer are a problem at the moment, I like them but do damage. We do need to re-grow forest and ecosystems but farmers are not the only obstacle. Our country side is heavily populated and towns will keep expanding and people only like controlled ‘nature’. They want their forests to have a nice footpath,only have cute not threatening animals and not too many insects. No one wants natural nature. If a wolf showed near a school, Joe Duffy would be full of people demanding a cull the next day. Farmers are no better, some them would sneak off and do it themselves.
Would it not make more sense to encourage people to hunt deer ? The culling of deer is for the most part done by people who are hired to do it. If you got more people wanting to hunt deer who have to buy tags to do so I feel like that would make the most sense rather than bringing back wolves and in turn having to keep their numbers in check.
It’s always people in cities that think this is a cool idea, not the people living out in the middle of nowhere worried a wolf will take livestock or a child
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No, because cunt farmers would kill them even if they posed no threat to their livestock.
We can’t even reintroduce various raptor birds because they’ll get shot or poisoned.
No
Feck it, bring back the bears.
Lynx belong in Africa. I can practically smell it.
Can we stop farmers dumping slurry into our rivers? How about that first?
Regrow forests first.
Lynxes are more likely. I can see the Indo headlines already though “Green’s Beast Savages Farmers Stock”.
We need an actual ecosystem to reintroduce them into too. Get sheep off “common” land in national parks and you start solving that problem.
We need to focus on reforestation first
To where exactly? Farmers fields aint going to cut it….
There’s nowhere for them to go.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysa5OBhXz-Q](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysa5OBhXz-Q)
Incredible
My gut feeling is that Ireland doesn’t have enough wilderness, or enough prey animals, to sustain any semblance of a livable wolf population. Wolves mixed with livestock, which Ireland has a lot of, is also bad – when hunting wild prey wolves are very efficient predators, but when hunting domestic prey they will frequently kill more than they need in a frenzy. It wouldn’t be fair to farmers to introduce that kind of menace to their livelihood.
Lynxes, on the other hand, are solitary predators who can cover wide ranges of territory and who are relatively discreet, they will not (to my knowledge) ever pose a danger to humans. They are opportunistic and are stealth predators, vs endurance like wolves are, so are less likely to decimate livestock herds. Lynxes I could see being a possibility if a large predator was needed to recalibrate the environment.
I don’t fancy walking into a pack of wolves when I’m out on a hike
If the eagles couldn’t manage it without being killed off by cunt farmers in their droves I don’t think the wolves or lynx would have a chance.
We don’t have organised fox hunts here the way the rich Brits do (although they still happen the rare time) but we have an _awful_ lot of farmers and rural types who get a kick out of killing and happily spend long nights out with rifles and cheap night vision scopes killing foxes, badgers and the likes under the cover of dark.
Wolves and lynx would become target number one for them.
I am from a farming background and would be in favour of bringing wolves and lynx. Foxes and badgers are our current top predators. The deer are a problem at the moment, I like them but do damage. We do need to re-grow forest and ecosystems but farmers are not the only obstacle. Our country side is heavily populated and towns will keep expanding and people only like controlled ‘nature’. They want their forests to have a nice footpath,only have cute not threatening animals and not too many insects. No one wants natural nature. If a wolf showed near a school, Joe Duffy would be full of people demanding a cull the next day. Farmers are no better, some them would sneak off and do it themselves.
Would it not make more sense to encourage people to hunt deer ? The culling of deer is for the most part done by people who are hired to do it. If you got more people wanting to hunt deer who have to buy tags to do so I feel like that would make the most sense rather than bringing back wolves and in turn having to keep their numbers in check.
It’s always people in cities that think this is a cool idea, not the people living out in the middle of nowhere worried a wolf will take livestock or a child