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Re-Introduction of the Wolf in Ireland

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  • #52
    Birdnuts
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,820 ✭✭✭Birdnuts


    recedite wrote: »
    According to this book "Beaver fossils are commonly found in the peat bogs of Ireland and England together with the famous Irish elk, Megaceros."

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    Thats interesting - what age are the fossils??:) - I think if the evidence is that it died out naturally ie. not at the hand of man, then under IUCN criteria it should not be considered for re-introduction.


  • #53
    recedite
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,992 ✭✭✭✭recedite


    Personally I don't know or care what age the fossils are. If beavers could be introduced, and they enriched the ecosystem I would be in favour of it.
    My definition of biodiversity is more of it, not less.


  • #54
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Just for clarity, the European beaver Castor fiber does not appear on the Irish fossil list.
    How on earth would introducing (not re-introducing) them help our ecosystem? They would be an alien species. :rolleyes:

    Maybe we'd be better off re-introducing animals we rendered extinct in this country. Or, trying to keep those we already have,


  • #55
    Mabel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 141 ✭✭Mabel


    ^^^

    This. A nice romantic image, but would be disastrous for our modern environment. I don't have a link, but hasn't there been reports of escaped (and established) Wild Boar causing damage already in the midlands? Plus the ****storm with the Eagles would render me very skeptical of any talk of re-introducing the Wolf in Ireland.


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