Webpage address: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6310211.stm
Date: 31-01-2007
Summary:
This article is about reintroducing the wild wolves into the Scottish Highlands. In the late 1700s the wolves were hunted to extinction in Scotland. Since then the red deer has no natural predator. Now the red deer population reached almost the maximum capacity, the eco-system can support.
There has been an ongoing debate about the possibility of reintroducing the wolf. A group of researchers used a predator/prey model and found out that reintroduction would help the rebalance of ecology. But (sheep)farmers and people living in the rural areas are less positive about it. It will cost a lot of sheep and it will be less safe for people.
Opinion:
It is a difficult situation. They all know that the population of red deer is getting too big. The ecosystem won’t support it much longer, so something has to be done. Otherwise, other animal species will have gone and more and more young trees will be munched by the red deer.
I can understand that the farmers won’t have wild wolves in the highlands. It will bring costs with it, and they will have feelings with sheep killed by wolves. People living in rural areas, that’s the consequence of living there, it will be like in the old days. Another option is to hunt down several red deer, but it is a temporary solution. I say nature must do it, so reintroduce the wild wolf!
1 comment:
I do not think that the wolf should be reintroduced in Scotland. I think wolves are dangerous animals and that people should not be exposed to that. The region and the people who live there have grown accustomed to the safety that the area brings. I think that hunting the deers is not a great solution, but may be the best one there is.
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