Sollten Wölfe im Vereinigten Königreich wieder angesiedelt werden?

No. You have to realise how small this island is and how little truly wild space there is. Even if a couple of wolves could live and breed undisturbed for a couple of years, within a short space of time, they would run out of room, come into conflict with people, and end up being hunted.

This has been talked about for years. Baswhen they say ‘The UK’, the mean the Highlands. Basically a part of the UK with hardly any humans and hundreds of miles of empty open space. I think it’s a good idea and hope they eventually go though with it.

No they bloody well shouldn’t.

That’s all we need 🙄

We need more people to hunt and eat deer.

People do not realise what a pest they are. They eat young trees and strip bark so any rewilding schemes are doomed to failure while deer levels are high as they are. Previously bears and wolves, and hunting, kept them in check but that’s no longer the case so the population continues to explode.

Am I missing something in the comments section? We live on less than 10% of the land in this country. Wolves will stay where it is coldest. They are talking the Scottish Highlands, where there is plenty of land.

We have been identified as one of the most ecologically deprived countries in the world . Yes they should , deer numbers are at unsustainable levels and we effectively have to cull them . Wolves will take care of it naturally for us and their populations will rise and fall at sustainable levels that is reflective of deer populations at the time

Less people coming into the country and a greater control of the human population, less building of houses on greenfield sites and more wilding of our countryside . That is what ought to be happening . Cities build upwards , not outwards

It always baffles me that the UK has no larger wild carnivores running around. The country has some remote space for it, like the Highlands and the northern part of Scotland. Even here in Belgium we have wolves again, but unfortunately our country has too many roads and cars and from the wolf pack only some individuals survived. I am pretty sure some wolves were killed by people intentionally, there were reports of them in urban areas and some sheep getting killed. I always hated that so many larger animals were butchered and massacred by humans in the 1800s.

The UK is in dire need of a predator for a healthy ecosystem. However, I think the Eurasian Lynx should be considered first and foremost. The Lynx was the last predator to be hunted to extinction in the UK and they rarely come into contact with humans. Similar to house cats, they are very skittish.

It’s an easier sell than Wolves – so easy in fact that many areas in Yorkshire have already voted in favour of their introduction with over 90% of farmers voting in favour around a decade ago. Just waiting on the government to y’know….do *something*.

Yes. Can we start with Westminster palace? Just for the lulz.

I think releasing a bunch of wolves into parliament would be a great idea. 

Also releasing them into Scotland along with some lynx would be fantastic for the ecosystem. 

I find rewilding issues interesting because they’re often well opposed by the very small number of local stakeholders, but overwhelmingly supported by the wider population who will probably never even visit the area during their lifetime.

So do you listen to the 99% who want to see the environmental benefits, or the 1% whose livelihoods it affects?

Nope. No wolves please. It’s quite nice not worrying about wolves when going for a long walk with my kids. I’d prefer to keep not worrying. Cheers 👍

I don’t think it would be a good idea.

Yes the Highlands would be a sensible place to start with, but ultimately it’s not that big, and it’s highly likely the wolves would start to expand their territory relatively quickly (there’s no practical way to keep them confined to the Highlands).

I can see other people have mentioned wolves in Belgium or the Netherlands – they weren’t re-introduced here but have actually expanded their territory into these countries from other places. Same as in France. Their return to these countries has been highly controversial and a lot of farmers in particular are unhappy as they’re losing livestock to Wolf attacks.

We have a lot of free roaming livestock in this country. I’m aware of lots of sheep + cattle in the north of England. I suspect there are also a decent number in various parts of Scotland too.

On top of that the highly populated central belt lies just to the south of the Highlands, and beyond that there are plenty of cities in the north of England.

We’re one of the more densely populated countries in the world, and it’s inevitable that there would be conflict with humans at some point quite quickly.

It would be a great idea but they would need protection to ensure that they aren’t hunted.

No they should not, purely because the ecosystem has been changed to such an extent that the reintroduction of wolves would destabilise it completely.