Animals You Would Like To See Reintroduced To The Uk

Should any animals, now extinct in the UK, be introduced?

If ‘yes’ which animal would be your favourites to reintroduce from those below. Maybe you have another to propose?

 

Who said "no" to Velociraptor?? That would be awesome to see, albeit from a safe distance.
Make it happen Moose

 

I think the foxes in my neighbourhood could do with a predator. But I’m not sure if wolves is the answer for Shepherds Bush.

 

I guess you are unable to include "Moose" given I presume they were never here ?!

PS Elk are not the same as moose before anyone smart suggests !

 

Another animal was the Irish elk, also called the Giant deer. Bigger than a contemporary elk.

 

Velociraptor fossils were found on the Isle of Wight. I think a limited reintroduction would be just the thing to add a frisson of excitement to the place.

 

The Scotland Highlands does have sufficient space for bears. There is a lot of it even north of Inverness with very few people in it. It also has a lot of sheep and other livestock, so bears and wolves likely to be unpopular.

But there is space for big animals. Wild Boar have re established themselves in areas as small as the Forest of Dean.

 

The wife's family all live on the IoW.
Are you crowdfunding this by any chance?

 

We need a few carnivores to control the deer populations which are out of control and decimating new tree growth putting the future of woodland at risk. https://cdn.forestresearch.gov.uk/2000/01/fcin036.pdf
However there is no chance of bears, large cats, wolves etc being reintroduced due to the danger to people and livestock in this sanitized land. It's no surprise such animals are at risk across all of their European range.

 

How about humans? Venison is delicious and hunting is a fun activity for the whole community.

 

Yes but we kill LESS than we need to in order to keep an equilibrium, esp in the remote tough to get to areas. We need to kill considerably more but the gen public don't like to see sweet deer being shot by marksmen !!

 

There's definitely room for a few bigger predatory mammals up in the highlands, and they would definitely help in the management of those environments -

“Only a mountain has lived long enough to listen objectively to the howl of a wolf.”
aldo-leopold-tlam.pdf (ecotoneinc.com)

And need to add sturgeon to the list.

 

I've had this argument many times. In America an Elk and Moose are different types of deer, in Norway and Sweden what you would call a Moose are called an Elg in Norway and Älg in Sweden which is translated as Elk. So in America its a Moose in Scandinavia its an Elk take your pick.

 

A woolly mammoth would like nice on the mantelpiece .

 

Definitely Velociraptor.

I would suggest we start by reintroducing them at Boris Johnson's house first. Seems primed for such a thing.

 

Said no to wolverine. I hate marvel heroes.

 

Give us all something to talk about too.

 

Is what they did in Jurassic Park actually technically possible? I’m surprised someone somewhere hasn’t actually brought a dinosaur back, even if it is illegal.

 

No. We can't recover a gene sequence from insects trapped in amber and we wouldn't be able to repair missing pieces with frog DNA.

 

You might be able to build a really weird looking creature though? A pre historic wasp with frogs legs. Gotta be worth a go?

 

A bit like with UFOs, we aren’t being told everything. I’m pretty certain I saw a dodo in Cassiobury Park last week.

 

Bolivian Tree Lizards

 

Eagle Owls, Pelicans and Velociraptors proving very popular so far.

 

I vote for some sort of hybrid of the three.

 

I reckon packs of hyenas would be good fun.
Along with Emus/Ostrich the only animal that can out run a human .

 

I think some posters are struggling with the word “reintroduced”.

 

Vampires and real witches. Not those silly fictional ones in Harold whatshisface but the ones that were burned at the stake.

 

Not just witches that smoked. Vampires smoke too.

 

The lesser spotted football hooligan.

Reintroduce it into the ecosystem to deal with the over abundance of plastic chairs and beer bottles that have come to dominate the landscape of our modern Highstreet

 

Most witches were hanged I think

 

Eric Burdon

 

Not with vampires though as they could bite through the rope.

 

Only the ones who could hold their breath a very long time survived.

 

The Jabberwock.