Talk:Eurasian lynx reintroduction in Great Britain

Neutral point of view?
I think the "support" comments are over-simplistic and do not give an appropriate sense of the difficulty of predicting how an animal will behave, the complexity of the issues involved, or respect for potential real, legitimate concerns.

For example, this report* would suggest that lynx are not a problem to sheep in some countries but are in others (p.10, p.12), that farmers in the areas of the UK involved are in difficulties because too much change is happening at once (p.11), and that guardian dogs (a solution traditional in some parts of the world) raise liablity issues (p.13). These are subtle and complex concerns which are not represented adequately in the article.


 * https://www.scotlandbigpicture.com/Images/2022/04/Lynx-to-Scotland-FINAL1.pdf

I have no interests at stake in the matter (i.e. I am not a sheep farmer or a active rewilder), except a general concern for both ecology and fairness. FloweringOctopus (talk) 18:50, 16 August 2023 (UTC)FloweringOctopus (talk) 18:49, 16 August 2023 (UTC)