Release Lynx. Why would you do this?

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and who is doing this?
Scotland lynx: The quest to catch Cairngorms' mysterious big cats - BBC News

It was sad to read that one of the lynx has died. I agree that some people don’t know what they’re doing. As much as I hate fur farms, releasing mink into the UK countryside was not a good idea, and now mink are being trapped and culled through no fault of their own. And the less said about the introduction of cane toads to Australia, the better…

There's definitely more illegally held exotic animals....

Willie Anderson, a deputy team leader of Cairngorm mountain rescue, came within 60 metres of the pair. “They had definitely been illegally released because they were 100 yards from a pile of straw bedding that contained dead chicks and, interestingly, porcupine quills – the bedding was peppered with porcupine quills,” he said on Thursday.

Some cruel fucker who should also be abandoned to care for themselves in the harshest days of winter in the Cairngorms.

and this is going to help the climate how??

@EsmaCannonball - I said that to my husband earlier! Release them into similar territory without food, water, mobile phones or camping equipment and see how long they last... Not long would be my bet!

I think one lynx has now died.

I don’t see how a new apex predator is great for the animals it catches for food. This idea works where there’s a healthy prey population but lynx don’t know the difference between lambs and chickens and wild rabbits. We should just leave well alone. No to wolves as well.

I don’t see how a new apex predator is great for the animals it catches for food

Predation keeps prey populations healthier by removing weaker animals. The knock on effects on the environment are startling. Less flooding - who'd have thought ?

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20140128-how-wolves-saved-a-famous-park

Much prefer Lynx to Xl Bully and other big dogs

@SerendipityJane That partially works in Africa but not where there’s farmland. It leads to stress for farmers and dead predators. Weaker animals die anyway. Introducing a species is often ends up giving problems no one thought about. Grey squirrels for example. Just isn’t worth it.

Less flooding! Do predators roll back climate change? Who knew!?

Are the others still wandering the Highlands or have they been taken in somewhere? Sorry I’m just catching up with this story now

There are big cats roaming Britain - without a single doubt.
These particular lynx were clearly abandoned pets and not ready for the wild but they aren’t the only lynx wondering our countryside there are also leopards and pumas.
If you want to know more I suggest you have a listen to a podcast called Big Cat Conversations by Rick Minter.

Poor babies 😢

I've heard two 'rumours'.

1. They were released by people opposed to Lynx being reintroduced to try and build up public distrust.

1. They were released by 'activists' trying to speed up reintroduction.

I hope the Police find the culprits. Releasing captive animals into the wild is just cruel.

They think they have caught them all but nobody expected a second pair to turn up so goodness knows

Like I said, these aren’t the only lynx in our country side. There are plenty that have been around for a long time.

Hardly 'rumours' more what most people are just thinking surely

There will probably be tw@ts reading about this who now 'want a lynx'... 😡

I do hope there are neighbours etc who will know who this was and be able to give a tip off to the police (though I can't imagine the penalties will be much of a deterrent).

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If you had read rather than sneered you would have read about the experiences in America, not Africa, and learned how reducing elk means trees can grow and soak up water that otherwise would flood the plains.

I hope others were interested.

Maybe you need to look at what the uk needs and can realistically do.

For information it’s tree planting on uplands, far more land use without hard standing to absorb water and greater ability to store water instead of allowing it to run off into uncleared ditches and rivers. Much more marginal planting to absorb water in flood relief schemes. Predators don’t help: nor reduction of elk in the uk. The problems we have need engineering solutions together with land management. This means that the government need to be very careful about all the proposed new housing. This will have much greater impact than cats.

I'm not totally against the idea of reintroducing predators to the UK but the problem is we no longer have the kind of remote, wild areas that existed when wolves roamed the countryside. If wolves are introduced there is going to be a lot more interaction between them and human beings than there is in places such as Montana or Norway. The UK has been deforested for timber and farming and the countryside is either farmland or an increasingly crowded tourist trap. A lot of these animals would be run over or shot and there will be far more incidents where they attack horses and pets and farm animals than happens in larger, wilder countries.

Surely someone can shed some light on who owned them? Even farms have Royal Mail /parcel deliveries.. Someone surely heard /saw them in a shed or barn.? Imo animal authorities need a permanent whistle blower hotline.. So all these twats who dump puppies in sealed boxes and wild cats can be prosecuted.. Not enough done to catch them out.

Maybe you need to look at what the uk needs and can realistically do.

Where did I say I wasn't ?

@Ohgodthisishard

Rumours as in hearsay. These are the ideas I have heard from other people who I have been in conversation with.

So, not confirmed by any official source. Therefore, rumours.

What language would you have used? Where have I used the word rumours incorrectly?

I totally agree. As a Highlander I have heard stories of people seeing panthers for years (not lynx though).