While having a quick look around some of my favourite sites today, I came across this story about the Beaver reintroduction programme currently underway in Scotland.
This set me thinking a bit about the philosophy of reintroductions or even the introduction of wild life.
If we take the view that tinkering with nature is not good, and many would so that, then maybe we should reflect on the fact that there would be none of the following in the UK.
White Tailed Sea Eagles
Red Kite (probably - as they were down to the last few native pairs in Wales)
Ospreys in England - reintroduced to Rutland Water (although starting on their won now in other parts of northern England)
Little Owl
European Eagle Owl (from escaped or released falconers birds)
Ring Necked Parakeets
Muntjac Deer
Sika Deer
Chinese Water Deer
Large Blue Butterfly
Grey Squirrel ( and Red Squirrel in some parts of England - Formby for example, were of Spanish or Italian stock I believe)
Mink
Now these last two you are probably thinking that we should just wipe them out. But these were introduced and are now causing many other problems.
So where do you stand on this?
Re-introductions or just let nature take it's course?
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Martin
This set me thinking a bit about the philosophy of reintroductions or even the introduction of wild life.
If we take the view that tinkering with nature is not good, and many would so that, then maybe we should reflect on the fact that there would be none of the following in the UK.
White Tailed Sea Eagles
Red Kite (probably - as they were down to the last few native pairs in Wales)
Ospreys in England - reintroduced to Rutland Water (although starting on their won now in other parts of northern England)
Little Owl
European Eagle Owl (from escaped or released falconers birds)
Ring Necked Parakeets
Muntjac Deer
Sika Deer
Chinese Water Deer
Large Blue Butterfly
Grey Squirrel ( and Red Squirrel in some parts of England - Formby for example, were of Spanish or Italian stock I believe)
Mink
Now these last two you are probably thinking that we should just wipe them out. But these were introduced and are now causing many other problems.
So where do you stand on this?
Re-introductions or just let nature take it's course?
It would be great to have lots of comments on this - we get up to a hundred visitors or so, so we really would like to get some comments and feedback.
If you do, and you send a comment and wonder why you don't see it immediately , then it will go into the 'moderation' queue so we can avoid any unpleasant messages or spam appearing
Thanks and we look forward to sharing
On a final note, tomorrow is our 250 post since Dave and I started the blog in January - we have not missed a single day yet and hope we can continue - Again any feedback for additional material will be welcomed.
Look out for our next Guest photographer slot, which will be on Wednesday this week from Tony Wharton FRPS
Martin
Well I will start the ball rolling. The argument that we shouldn't tinker with nature would be fine if we weren't responsible for the decline of some species in the first place. Our current tinkering is probably just redressing the balance.
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