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  • Scotland's deer are changing shape due to hybridisation

    Ralph Maughan

    Scotland’s wild red deer have bred with Japanese sika deer, serving to reduce their size- Red deer are similar to American elk, wapiti. Ironically a concern in the U.S. is red deer from “hunting” ranches escaping to breed with elk. Scotland’s deer are changing shape due to hybridisation. By Jody Bourton. Earth News reporter. BBC

  • Wolf reintroduction proposed in Scottish Highland test case

    Ken Cole

    Wolves have been absent from Scotland for more than 250 years In an effort to change the behavior of red deer in Scotland so that the ecosystem can recover from their overgrazing, researchers are recommending wolf reintroduction to an island or major fenced area to see how the land, vegetation and other inhabitants respond. Wolf…

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‎”At some point we must draw a line across the ground of our home and our being, drive a spear into the land and say to the bulldozers, earthmovers, government and corporations, “thus far and no further.” If we do not, we shall later feel, instead of pride, the regret of Thoreau, that good but overly-bookish man, who wrote, near the end of his life, “If I repent of anything it is likely to be my good behaviour.”

Edward Abbey

“The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.”

Jim Fowler

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