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12-12-2007, 07:17 PM
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| | | Alladale Estate and Wildlife Reserve
Evening All,
Just been flicking through Monday's Independent and came across an article on the previous owner of MFI Furniture, Paul Lister...He owns a 23,000 acres of Scottish highlands and has gained a licence to to breed and keep 'dangerous' wild animals...
Basically he is planning on reintroducing Brown Bears, Wolves, Beavers, Lynx and has already introduced two Elk (Moose). It looks like a fascinating project he is undertaking but what are your view on it?
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12-12-2007, 07:26 PM
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12-12-2007, 08:25 PM
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I'd love to see these animals back in the wild but if this is going to be a glorified wildlife park / zoo type thing then no! Hard really to say without knowing more about it....
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13-12-2007, 05:31 PM
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Well there was a whole article on it in Monday's Independent....Not sure if you can get it up on the papers website...well worth a read though.
Cheers Jacob |
13-12-2007, 08:33 PM
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It does all sound rather exciting.
Regards, Chris |
14-12-2007, 08:52 AM
|  | Officer of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: North Yorkshire ( Gods Country )
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Personally it sounds Nutty to me , We should be concentrating on preserving what we have. I bet any scottish Wildcats and Otters etc will be really chuffed to meet up with wolves and lynx.
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14-12-2007, 08:53 AM
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Personally it sounds Nutty to me , We should be concentrating on preserving what we have. I bet any scottish Wildcats and Otters etc will be really chuffed to meet up with wolves and lynx.
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14-12-2007, 08:55 AM
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ooops would one of you nice kind admins delete one of those for me...
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14-12-2007, 09:41 AM
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| | | Re: Alladale Estate and Wildlife Reserve
Hi People,
I think there's already a long thread on this subject, releasing wolves into Scotland, I last read he was going to charge customers several thousand pounds a week to watch deer being chased by wolves.
There's to be a high fence around the property,10 square miles to keep them in, [the wolves that is  ], but how long is it going to be maintained, and of course what about the burrowers going under it.
If people are shooting and poisoning BOP I wouldn't give the wolves or bears too long a life
I think the Beavers have already been released at a "secret" location.
Max.
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