Jayyyyysus. Just shoot the feckers if they’re a problem.
I don’t want to be in my tent and have this yoke snacking on my head!
We don’t have enough wild spaces for them. They’d end up being poisoned by farmers during lambing season.
Cull the deer right back, at least that will promote forest growth.
Either that or wolves . The benefits to reintroduced apex predators would be absolutely profound . This has already been proven elsewhere most notably Yellowstone where the reintroduction of wolves transformed the flora and overall makeup of the landscape
TIL Ireland had Lynxs
Didn’t we introduce the sika deer to get rid of the dangleberry?
I propose we use the “Little Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly” approach. When the lynx get out of control we bring in wolves then polar bears then tigers and so forth and so on until eventually Tyrannosaurus Rex roam the Wicklow mountains.
Like landlords, the farmers lobby is too powerful in this country. Plus from a practical point of view, we don’t have enough wild habitat to support these animals compared with somewhere like Scotland. Rural places like Mayo and Donegal have quiet large dispersed populations compared with the Scottish highlands.
Sure fuck it. Bring back some predators to hunt the deer.
If any uppity farmer gets a notion to shoot one: slap him with a massive fine.
Fuck livestock anyone after meat can eat cockles and mussels.
“That’s the beauty of it,when winter comes around the gorillas will just freeze to death”
Bow chicka wow wow
Would sure making hiking a whole lot more fun
Should we reintroduce the Velociraptor to deal with the human problem?
The Ireland that existed when lynx and wolves last lived here is long gone. There would be no place here for them now. Comparing them to eagles is pointless as they naturally nest in remote inaccessible places and the skies are free for them to roam unimpeded by people. I don’t understand the cull mentality in this country. Too many deer, too many pike, too many seals. Leave them alone to get on with it. Nature gets on much better left alone than when people intervene.
Not only is this ridiculous considering we have no space for them, but it’s also just so fucking cruel to the deer. I’d take being shot over eaten alive by a lynx any day of the week, it’s barbaric. We seriously need to start looking into deer contraceptives, it’s already been successfully trialled in some areas of the US. Far more humane than shooting them or introducing a predator to eat them alive.
Didn’t even know we had a sika deer problem to solve.
How do we stop the Lynx from over breeding and taking over the country?
If the deer are that much of an issue maybe extend the hunting season on them, plus encourage leaving a few of the corpses in the biome to help the local predator/scavenger populations
The govt should make it easier for people to hunt the deer… How’s about starting with that. I’d happily go out and shoot deer for the freezer and help with the culling but hunting is generally a fucking rich boys club in this country
Its Caturday already?
That’s the best part- when the winter comes in the gorillas simply freeze to death!
Ireland does not need wild apex predators. If you really need to cull the deer, we already have five million of the most dangerous species on the planet. We nearly drove badgers into extinction with a little encouragement, I think we can handle deer. Stop trying to play ecological god in a small country with minimal forest cover.
Lynx died in ireland naturally.. not through human intervention. So no, they shouldn’t be reintroduced
It’s a great idea. On a broader aspect, we need to rewild the country. It’s a green desert. Endless shite growing between Kildare and Galway and from Malin to Mizen. There’s very very little of our country that’s remotely wild.
We should leave legacy that as much of Ireland goes back to wild as possible.
Fuck farmers. Fuck cars. Shared Island means more than just a cross community soundbite, it’s something we should strive for with all our species here.
I think I saw one running across the road yesterday. It was definitely some kind of cat.
could we not go out and shoot them and eat them
also is a lynx big enough to take a deer even a sika deer
The shite going on in these comments💀 lads cop on, we are chockablock with sheep. Bye bye livelihoods to our farmers lol.
Besides, we had all these lovely animals and wolves n shite before the Brits showed up and mowed down our forests, killed us off etc. But unfortunately, they did come and our current ecosystem wouldn’t support the one we originally had. I’m no Einstein but there’s gotta be a different solution to an aul lynx💀
This might be one of the best ideas I’ve ever heard. I can’t think of any possible downsides.
only issue is there isn’t much landscape for them to have a habitat in, and then there is the risk of farmers losing stock and the potential impact on humans, they have little habitat to live in and will inevitably wander into farms and places where humans will be and possible kill livestock and child
When the lynx become a problem, we release chimps with shotguns. It’s a pretty elegant solution.
I dont see how what religion a deer is makes them a “problem”
International hunters paying fortunes to come and shoot them makes more sense
Could solve the chicken & sheep problem too
Unlimited hunting permits for sika deer
What will we have to reintroduce to get rid of the lynx problem?
We could just eat them
Any chance they are still in Ireland but keeping a low profile? Could have sworn on a bible (or whatever you’re having) that I saw one about 15 years ago in a field
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I’m going to say no.
Reminds me of this gem.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ireland/comments/n3hn7a/reintroducing_wolves_to_ireland/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
Jayyyyysus. Just shoot the feckers if they’re a problem.
I don’t want to be in my tent and have this yoke snacking on my head!
We don’t have enough wild spaces for them. They’d end up being poisoned by farmers during lambing season.
Cull the deer right back, at least that will promote forest growth.
Either that or wolves . The benefits to reintroduced apex predators would be absolutely profound . This has already been proven elsewhere most notably Yellowstone where the reintroduction of wolves transformed the flora and overall makeup of the landscape
TIL Ireland had Lynxs
Didn’t we introduce the sika deer to get rid of the dangleberry?
I propose we use the “Little Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly” approach. When the lynx get out of control we bring in wolves then polar bears then tigers and so forth and so on until eventually Tyrannosaurus Rex roam the Wicklow mountains.
Like landlords, the farmers lobby is too powerful in this country. Plus from a practical point of view, we don’t have enough wild habitat to support these animals compared with somewhere like Scotland. Rural places like Mayo and Donegal have quiet large dispersed populations compared with the Scottish highlands.
Sure fuck it. Bring back some predators to hunt the deer.
If any uppity farmer gets a notion to shoot one: slap him with a massive fine.
Fuck livestock anyone after meat can eat cockles and mussels.
“That’s the beauty of it,when winter comes around the gorillas will just freeze to death”
Bow chicka wow wow
Would sure making hiking a whole lot more fun
Should we reintroduce the Velociraptor to deal with the human problem?
The Ireland that existed when lynx and wolves last lived here is long gone. There would be no place here for them now. Comparing them to eagles is pointless as they naturally nest in remote inaccessible places and the skies are free for them to roam unimpeded by people. I don’t understand the cull mentality in this country. Too many deer, too many pike, too many seals. Leave them alone to get on with it. Nature gets on much better left alone than when people intervene.
Not only is this ridiculous considering we have no space for them, but it’s also just so fucking cruel to the deer. I’d take being shot over eaten alive by a lynx any day of the week, it’s barbaric. We seriously need to start looking into deer contraceptives, it’s already been successfully trialled in some areas of the US. Far more humane than shooting them or introducing a predator to eat them alive.
Didn’t even know we had a sika deer problem to solve.
How do we stop the Lynx from over breeding and taking over the country?
If the deer are that much of an issue maybe extend the hunting season on them, plus encourage leaving a few of the corpses in the biome to help the local predator/scavenger populations
The govt should make it easier for people to hunt the deer… How’s about starting with that. I’d happily go out and shoot deer for the freezer and help with the culling but hunting is generally a fucking rich boys club in this country
Its Caturday already?
That’s the best part- when the winter comes in the gorillas simply freeze to death!
Ireland does not need wild apex predators. If you really need to cull the deer, we already have five million of the most dangerous species on the planet. We nearly drove badgers into extinction with a little encouragement, I think we can handle deer. Stop trying to play ecological god in a small country with minimal forest cover.
Lynx died in ireland naturally.. not through human intervention. So no, they shouldn’t be reintroduced
It’s a great idea. On a broader aspect, we need to rewild the country. It’s a green desert. Endless shite growing between Kildare and Galway and from Malin to Mizen. There’s very very little of our country that’s remotely wild.
We should leave legacy that as much of Ireland goes back to wild as possible.
Fuck farmers. Fuck cars. Shared Island means more than just a cross community soundbite, it’s something we should strive for with all our species here.
I think I saw one running across the road yesterday. It was definitely some kind of cat.
could we not go out and shoot them and eat them
also is a lynx big enough to take a deer even a sika deer
The shite going on in these comments💀 lads cop on, we are chockablock with sheep. Bye bye livelihoods to our farmers lol.
Besides, we had all these lovely animals and wolves n shite before the Brits showed up and mowed down our forests, killed us off etc. But unfortunately, they did come and our current ecosystem wouldn’t support the one we originally had. I’m no Einstein but there’s gotta be a different solution to an aul lynx💀
This might be one of the best ideas I’ve ever heard. I can’t think of any possible downsides.
only issue is there isn’t much landscape for them to have a habitat in, and then there is the risk of farmers losing stock and the potential impact on humans, they have little habitat to live in and will inevitably wander into farms and places where humans will be and possible kill livestock and child
When the lynx become a problem, we release chimps with shotguns. It’s a pretty elegant solution.
I dont see how what religion a deer is makes them a “problem”
International hunters paying fortunes to come and shoot them makes more sense
Could solve the chicken & sheep problem too
Unlimited hunting permits for sika deer
What will we have to reintroduce to get rid of the lynx problem?
We could just eat them
Any chance they are still in Ireland but keeping a low profile? Could have sworn on a bible (or whatever you’re having) that I saw one about 15 years ago in a field
Yep bring em on
Or we could try doing it through ethical means: [https://www.humanesociety.org/resources/questions-and-answers-about-immunocontraception](https://www.humanesociety.org/resources/questions-and-answers-about-immunocontraception)