To think the reintroduction of the wild Wolf to Belgium is insanity?

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Wild Wolves have been reintroduced into Belgium over the last couple of weeks. This has led to the great dismay of the local farming community and outrage from the country as a whole. I am personally thinking about the many farmers who will lose cattle and sheep to the wolves and the impact it will have on their livelihood. Also the impact it will have on the wider ecosystem as a whole which could see various creatures such as rabbits, hares and other small mammals hunted in large quantities.

Wolves have a very inefficient digestive system as do most carnivores which means they need large quantities of meat to survive.

Its a very interesting one but I think this needs resolving urgently as a matter of urgency.

Am I the only one who is reminded of certain threads not so long ago pertaining to the water supply?

I can't speak for Belgium, but the UK's ecosystem is currently suffering massively due to there being no large natural predator here anymore. I don't want wolves to be reintroduced to the UK just because there would be too much human/wildlife conflict with farmers and not enough space. The Eurasian Lynx however is a much better candidate.

should take the loss and continue on as nature intended which animals like wolves should understand

Best thing I've read on here for a while. Bloody wolves not understanding stuff as per usual.

OP, when you emptied all those lakes out, you killed a load of native fish. Do you think that was responsible?

Mind you, it's a bit strange that no-one has noticed all those mysteriously emptying and refilling lakes.

Wolves also do not often prey on animals that live in trees like squirrels Nd find it hard to catch them due to their poor eyesore.

Oh I missed this gem posted earlier 😂😂

Wolves have poor eyesight! Who knew that was why squirrels are pretty safe from them, not because Wolves don't climb trees 😉

Belgium isn't a landlocked country.

I bloody love MN sometimes - thanks OP, a solid 9/10 for effort (you lost a point for the branded purified water - a touch too far, methinks, but amusing nonetheless).

I'm hugely enjoying this thread.

There are wolves a few miles from me. OK, they are in a wildlife park but what if they got out? We could have them running wild through our suburban estate. I shall put up posters on the lamp posts:
WOLF ALERT! LOCK UP YOUR DAUGHTERS (IF THEY ARE WEARING RED CAPES WITH HOODS)

Everyone knows the wolves will travelling Eurostar in first class, dressed as grandma.

And possibly setting up a lucrative trafficking side hustle to smuggle in bears and such like too.

You let yourself down here OP. You were doing really well, just getting the tone and balance right between eccentric and off your head, but you got cocky, and over-egged the pudding!

And squirrels never come down to the ground.

To be fair to the OP, if the wolves can head to the coast of a clear day to check out the Cliffs of Dover, decided that they want overtake the country beyond the cliffs and the plot the invasion, including thinking crossing a large body of water is no problem because it's only 20km, then this is a species of wolves we probably would be wise to be cautious of.

It'll be in history books, and 2023 a well known date like 1066.

Don’t tell her that trapping crayfish without a proper permit is illegal.

Never mind fucking about with whole bodies water.

Invasive wolves eh? I, for one, welcome our new lupine overlords!

The wolves haven't eaten all the rabbits in Finland yet though so I guess they're not such overlords after all.

I was once travelling on the Eurostar when we got stopped in Calais due to a migrant who had walked the length of the tunnel overnight, only to be spotted by security when he had almost made it to Kent. I expect the wolves could do that much more quickly when the trains stop overnight.

Anyway, we were delayed by over two hours and I wish I had been travelling in first class, because back then you got a free return ticket in the same class as the one you were travelling in if you experienced a delay of 120 minutes or more. But sadly my free return ticket was in cattle class.

😂 This thread has cheered me up. Comedy gold

Here's a BBC article about the bison - they're in Kent, but in an enclosed area.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-64085780.amp

Those history books would be written by our new wolf overlords.

Apparently it is, if you count the Channel as a river. So Britain is not an island, who knew?

’Crayfish do not care’

I’m going to have that printed onto t-shirts.

They walked over Doggerland just like the people, the wild boar, the field mice etc etc. Then they got their beaver chums to undam the Channel to flood the passage and cut us off, possibly in cahoots with some Stone Age Suella Braverman.

I wouldn't want to be in the vicinity when Nigel Farage finds out, that's for sure.

Oh it easy. Didn't you know there are no commonly held truths any more? Only the things that make me personally happy and fit with my world view can be true. The same goes for you and for everyone else in the world . Therefore it is obvious that country with a coastline can be landlocked , I just need to change the definition of landlocked so that it fits with what I want ot to be. See easy !

Yes Belgium is obviously landlocked and the world is flat because I personally can't see past the horizon. After all I'm entitled to my own opinion and nothing will convince me otherwise

But OP why aren't you worried about the brown bears who live in the Alps with the wolves? Maybe they'll teach them to swim the channel too.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-64085780.amp

Bison story as a link this time. They were mentioned in a local TV news item a few days ago, which may be why they're on some posters' minds