It’s not over till it’s over. One of my gran’s mates knows a guy.
Been getting me a set of lynx every Xmas for about 35 years.
Aye i bet that was a hard decision for them.
>”My government will not be reintroducing lynx, or indeed any other large carnivorous species in Scotland.”
>He said the introduction of other species such as white-tailed sea eagles had led to “unintended consequences”.
>The first minister said it was important to set out the policy position of his government on the lynx issue.
>”We’ve got to wrestle with various issues of balance within the rural community in Scotland,” he said.
>”We’ve got to balance the action we’ve got to take on climate. We’ve got to balance the action to ensure we’ve got an adequate supply of food production.
>”We’ve got to make sure that we’ve got viable investments within our rural economy – and I don’t see the reintroduction of the lynx being compatible with that balanced agenda that the government’s got to take forward.”
Good to see the government acknowledging that the Eagle reintroduction did not go at all as the conservation lobby insisted it would and that they are being more cautious with reintroduction going forward.
Lynx could be safely reintroduced, but it needs a proper compensation scheme for farmers and the acceptence that, like eagles, they have the potential to take considerable amount of stock.
None of this pretending that the farmers are lying for 40 years before acknowledging the problem.
Unbelievably there are still people who don’t believe eagles will take healthy lambs, as a direct result of misinformation spread by lobby groups. That cannot happen with lynx.
Rural Scotland is not a theme park, it shouldn’t be treated as one.
Maintaining a certain level of agriculture in upland areas, for textiles as well as calories, has been an important part of national security strategy for decades- following hard lessons learned last century.
Abandoning that because we see no threat at present will put us in the same position as with COVID- unprepared and unable to scale up in time to avert disaster.
Terrible decision.
Nature Scotland? Just an other quango that sits in the pockets of the shooting estates.
Correct solution: You guys reduce deer numbers or else we’ll reintroduce lynx and wolves.
If you think this conversation shouldn’t be over then we would love to see you at r/rewildingUK
Lynx? We can’t even trust people not to kill eagles. What chance would lynx have?
Damn nats. 😠
Interesting. I got asked to do a survey a few weeks ago and I usually don’t do them, but I did because I was bored. It really seemed like it was by Scot Gov or the SNP by the questions and a big part of them were about this. It was asking if you knew about those eagles being re-introduced and asking how you felt about that and about the possibility of releasing lynx. A lot of questions on that line and various different things related to it. Guess the overall response wasn’t positive?
(I seem to remember the other questions were about immigrants and asylum seekers.)
Boring bastard.
He always seemed an old spice guy
Fucking wank.
Seems like a political lose-lose situation. You piss off farmers and potentially harm an unlucky person and most city people couldn’t care less about biodiversity.
If it’s done maybe it should be done quietly for the greater good?
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Swinney bans cats!
Awww.
Better than lynx Africa, amiright.
It’s not over till it’s over. One of my gran’s mates knows a guy.
Been getting me a set of lynx every Xmas for about 35 years.
Aye i bet that was a hard decision for them.
>”My government will not be reintroducing lynx, or indeed any other large carnivorous species in Scotland.”
>He said the introduction of other species such as white-tailed sea eagles had led to “unintended consequences”.
>The first minister said it was important to set out the policy position of his government on the lynx issue.
>”We’ve got to wrestle with various issues of balance within the rural community in Scotland,” he said.
>”We’ve got to balance the action we’ve got to take on climate. We’ve got to balance the action to ensure we’ve got an adequate supply of food production.
>”We’ve got to make sure that we’ve got viable investments within our rural economy – and I don’t see the reintroduction of the lynx being compatible with that balanced agenda that the government’s got to take forward.”
Good to see the government acknowledging that the Eagle reintroduction did not go at all as the conservation lobby insisted it would and that they are being more cautious with reintroduction going forward.
Lynx could be safely reintroduced, but it needs a proper compensation scheme for farmers and the acceptence that, like eagles, they have the potential to take considerable amount of stock.
None of this pretending that the farmers are lying for 40 years before acknowledging the problem.
Unbelievably there are still people who don’t believe eagles will take healthy lambs, as a direct result of misinformation spread by lobby groups. That cannot happen with lynx.
Rural Scotland is not a theme park, it shouldn’t be treated as one.
Maintaining a certain level of agriculture in upland areas, for textiles as well as calories, has been an important part of national security strategy for decades- following hard lessons learned last century.
Abandoning that because we see no threat at present will put us in the same position as with COVID- unprepared and unable to scale up in time to avert disaster.
Terrible decision.
Nature Scotland? Just an other quango that sits in the pockets of the shooting estates.
Correct solution: You guys reduce deer numbers or else we’ll reintroduce lynx and wolves.
If you think this conversation shouldn’t be over then we would love to see you at r/rewildingUK
Lynx? We can’t even trust people not to kill eagles. What chance would lynx have?
Damn nats. 😠
Interesting. I got asked to do a survey a few weeks ago and I usually don’t do them, but I did because I was bored. It really seemed like it was by Scot Gov or the SNP by the questions and a big part of them were about this. It was asking if you knew about those eagles being re-introduced and asking how you felt about that and about the possibility of releasing lynx. A lot of questions on that line and various different things related to it. Guess the overall response wasn’t positive?
(I seem to remember the other questions were about immigrants and asylum seekers.)
Boring bastard.
He always seemed an old spice guy
Fucking wank.
Seems like a political lose-lose situation. You piss off farmers and potentially harm an unlucky person and most city people couldn’t care less about biodiversity.
If it’s done maybe it should be done quietly for the greater good?
Absolute bullshit, John
This is the first step to banning all cats.
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