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Stewart Robert Hinsley[_3_] · 16-05-2015, 04:45 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening

On 14/05/2015 21:18, Janet wrote:
In article ,
says...

"Phil Cook" wrote in message
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On 12/05/2015 20:56, Christina Websell wrote:
"Phil Cook" wrote in message
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On 04/05/2015 21:58, Christina Websell wrote:
"Chris Hogg" wrote in message
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I don't see the need for the re-introduction of species that have died
out from the UK, just because they used to be around decades or
centuries ago. Move on!

Agree.

Tell that to all the folk making a mint from the ornithological tourism
in
the Hebrides and West Highlands after the re-introduction of the white
tailed sea eagle.

Which is not quite the same as having lynx, is it? they will be a
perfect
nuisance around poultry and sheep. I say NO.

I've seen a white tailed sea eagle facing off with a ewe over a dead lamb.
Those birds aren't small.
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and your point is?

His point is, that the re-introduction of wtse's was and is as
controversial to sheep farmers.

There not room for lynxes (or wolves) to be reintroduced here

Presumably you're referring to arable Lincolnshire, which afaik is not
the area where lynx would be introduced.

I suspect you haven't seen the amount of "room available" in the
Scottish Highlands. Or, the unnatural degree of damage done to the
native ecology there, by uncontrolled deer.

Janet

I was under the impression that the problem in the Scottish Highlands
was red deer. As I understand from this thread, lynx aren't a solution
to the red deer problem. I'd be mildly concerned about the effects of
lynx on hare populations, as I have the impression that hare populations
aren't all that healthy in the first place.

(Where I live apparently there are no deer species, which may be why the
ground flora is healthy in several of the local woodlands - in others it
is suppressed by Rhododendron ponticum.)

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SRH