Reintroductions

This ridiculous insistence that Global Warming is all down to human activity is IMO spurious and ourtrageous.  The world has never had a static weather system, there have been Ice Ages and warm periods for as long as the earth has been in existence.

It is those with an eye on business opportunities who are pushing so hard for their products to be deployed. Even although their products are totally unable to have any effect on the natural changes in the Earth's temperature.  The Americans have a name for that kind of unethical practice. They call the participants " Snake Oil Salesmen ".

Lets stop acting like King Canute and accept the world is going through it's natural cycle. 

K 

As I said in an earlier post. Reintroducing Wolves to the UK would go a long way to balancing the natural wild life population.

K .

Most Scottish sheep farmers will be too busy just now to post a reply Kennine but they got a bit uppity a wee while ago when the reintroduction of wolves was proposed. They still hunt foxes where I live so I suspect that wolves would not be welcome .

I'm with you on climate change and if anyone else is interested in more than the Daily Mail view there are lots of good debate forums out there.

I'm not, and many others are not, insisting that climate change is all down to humans. It's just that we may be contributing to that fine balance that is effecting our weather patterns and this in turn may have a very detrimental effect on people's lives and livelihoods. We could, afterall just maybe providing that activity which tips us over! 

Furthermore on another issue, with regard to leaving well alone mass deforestation, which is a human activity, has seen the total eradication of habitats on a massive scale with the extinction of both flora and fauna in some huge areas of the landmass.

There are those ostriches of course on both issues who wish to bury their heads in the sand just for economical reasons, they don't want to admit the possibilities and certainly don't want to change their habits. 

We must keep an open scientific mind if we are to make the most of this world for our future generations. We must do 'our' bit I feel or there is the possibility that the catastrophic could happen. It wouldn't be the first time a civilisation has possibly disappeared through their own actions. Just look at the Easter Island scenario. 

It's all about 'keystone' species here, species which play a significant role in an ecosystem. You take that species out and the ecosystem collapses and doesn't function in the same way - reducing the benefits of that ecosystem that we as humans take for granted (air pollution, clean water supply, higher oxygen levels, natural pest control, food sources etc).

Many large apex predators like tigers, bears, wolves, sharks are have a confounding effect on the ecosystems they live in and are to some extent keystone species. In the UK a predator would control deer populations for us, allowing grasslands to be in a healthy state - we'd then get lots of insect rich grasslands which would subsequently benefit things that eat them - birds, reptiles etc - you can how one species can have a huge beneficial knock on effect.

Very interesting discussion! Love some of the comments, personally I'd quite like to see wild boar, the lynx and the beaver back as a start. We just have to live in harmony with nature. 

Brilliant to see the rewilding agenda lives on! Have faith folk. Lots of places to visits out in our motorhomes and caravans. Saw the ECO awards in the latest Club magazine, even small projects can contribute! 

Yes, where such projects could be of value to enriching our ecosystems they should at least be considered.👍