I live in a forest in Sweden and there's wolves outside my house every night and I would be really sad if they would disappear. Even leave food outside for them that I don't want so they stick around. I have met them in the forest many times both during the day and the night and when I've been chopping wood outside my home and I don't perceive them as a treat at all. They can make really ghostly sounds but they have never been aggressive. You eighter hear them from far away barking and howling getting closer or just appear quietly and eighter just run by ignoring me or they hang around at a healthy distance for a while and then leave. If you have animals you should bring them inside during the night though.

I'm from Scottish highlands and I say yes

Its a great idea to reintroduce them back into the wild of Scotland, most people only fear them because of stories they've read and films they have watched they aren't as vicious as they have percieved to be.

Hello from Finland. We have a few hundred wolves here. They don't attack humans, but unfortunately they do regularly kill ponies, sheep and cattle, and also dogs. So before you reintroduce them, be sure there's a good plan about how to deal with the imminent killed house animals. Also have a good talking relations with the ordinary people who live in the area where they are about to be released. You need to have them feel positive or at least accepting about it for it to be successful. Otherwise they'll fear for themselves, their children and their animals and poach the wolves. You are really going to need the community, so be respectful and listen to them and their worries.

Bring back wolves, bears, lynx and boar.

I'd like to see it, also lynx and bears too. They were here before we decided to hunt them all. What a sham

Please bring them back to the UK. They're so amazing. If I was in Scotland, I would tell farmers and children the truth about wolves before reintroducing them to the Scottish highlands. Maybe farmers can put electric fences around their farms to keep predators away from their livestock to make money. I know electric fences are very expensive, but Scottish farmers have got to come up with something to protect their livestock from predators.

I think it's a good idea to bring wolves back to scotland

It's a good idea to bring wolves back to Great Britain.

I see Deer in some Glasgow council schemes/estates lol. They're everywhere now, obviously due to having no predators in the UK.

We all want it but, there simple is not enough woodland and natural habitat for the wolves.

The wolf will bring a huge amount of natural balance to wildlife and also. I have seen lynx. So don't give me that.

I’m from Dunfermline but spend my time outside, I say yes and just think they have been here before, I want a wild scotland

My Best friend which I met 3 weeks ago, moved to Australia (My country) from England when she was six. She claims to have owned a pet wolf. Wolves are both our favorite animals! They are ADORABLE!! A shame they don't have them in Australia 😭😭😭😭

Yes bring them back!

We should return wolves back in The UK and Ireland. There were also brown bears, lynxes, and beavers that also used to live there. The last wolf of Ireland was killed in 1786.

They definitely can. Farmers and the public are just too ignorant to let them. We could easily keep sheep safe with no deaths on both sides while having our lovely wolves back.

We should start with picking a big Scottish island in the outer Hebrides and make it a wolf haven, and see how it goes, they have to be wild though.

I live in the United States in the State of Maryland and we have reports of them in my State and it makes me happy and excited to have them here .

Bring em' back!!

I’m from the Forest of Dean and here we have large woodland areas and personally I would love to see more animals re introduced since the beaver has been successful I’d love to see bear lynx wolves and maybe moose be reintroduced

Very informative video! I wrote an essay on potential wolf reintroduction a few years ago, extremely interesting topic, hopefully we see success with the Lynx.

Greetings from the United States. A few comments if I may.. First, your heart is in the right place, but Scotland is not ready yet for the wolf, and not for the reasons you think. The godawful truth is that a Godzilla sized tree planting effort must be put in effect. Bigger than what is happening now. And a lot of farmers and wealthy landowners are going to have to put a bullseye on their John Brown hindparts so asses can be vigorously kicked. They were part of the reason the beasts disappeared before and they need to be told that they have to adjust to a new reality. Second, a better idea would be to first reintroduce the boar and just let it happen where that is concerned. Pumbaa must come home. People forget one fact about Pumbaa piggy and his buddies: THEY ARE CHAMPS AT POOPING. Boar are omnivorous. They snuffle the ground with their snoots looking for mushrooms, tubers, bugs, the occasional small animal. They might try to take a fawn if they can get away with it. They also love acorns. OAK acorns. And they will eat beech nuts and chestnuts and hawthorn and bilberry and many others, some of them grown scarce in Scotland. Mr. Pumbaa will trot off, miles away, and indeed he will poop. His poop will be a nice fertilizer for the seeds he swallowed and transport the seed of trees and plants wherever he goes in autumn. Get out your calculator and multiply that by many hundreds of piggies: more saplings and more diverse trees and the beginnings of forest popping out of the ground. More piggies tilling the soil and potentially uncovering long locked up seedstock that cannot germinate without help. Those barren hillsides will get a push, sprouting vegetation, and force deer to congregate in other places as new trees start shooting up. In time wild boar will be numerous enough to provide a second food source for larger predators like wolves. The trees will be required to boost biodiversity. Third, a few animals are going to need to be secured, like birds that lay eggs on the ground. Wolves will eat those. They like eggs. They like to eat the babies. It would be best to wait for some numbers to go up and to breed and release them so if wolves come back the hit they will take won't be as bad. Last, and very important, WOLVES CANNOT READ. They won't be able to read the sign that says, "Welcome to England." Assuming they will stay only in Scotland is the wrong assumption and there has to be a contingency plan in place to deal with what happens when one shows up outside of York with puppies and a mate. You mentioned Yellowstone. What you do not know is that they didn't stay there. Over the years they spread north to Montana and Idaho, west to Washington State and Oregon, and now are forming packs in Northern California. Biologists in Colorado, Nevada, and Utah are standing by, believing it is only a matter of time and have their hands hovering over the button that rolls out the welcome home party. One Northern California pack has been photographed with a litter of fat, healthy puppies just this past July. All babies are still alive. If they themselves reach old age and form their own packs, if wolves continue to migrate from Oregon and Idaho, the Nevada border is not all that far away. The wildlife officials in CA are pretty sure that they will also continue south towards San Francisco and Sacramento as the food is plentiful and the Sierra Nevada Mountains will help them slip unnoticed (they are also very good swimmers, so rivers will do nothing to stop them and it is false that they need forests to survive.) I am not saying they should never return. I am just saying it is not time yet. Yellowstone had an environment that was less disturbed to begin with. The time is soon, but first, trees and boars and plants. And once they do come, it would not take much for them to head for the coast and hop from island to island until they found a spot where they could swim to England. Life always finds a way.

Can you do another reintroduction video of otters to Japan and make another playlist of species reintroductions?

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an excellent vid, tough decission, the farmers would cause uproar, but i would like to see them come back, large strong fences needed for the farmers. i raise a small amount of live stock for personal use and live in a forest area with deer. less venison on the menu if they come do back.

I spend most of my time in the wild and would love to see them re-introduced into the wild so yeah why not bring them back

If farmers want to protect their livestock when wolves are around they could opt to obtain dogs, dogs that were specifically bread for this task.

In France we can see wolves and lynx on our ski stations at night XD ! And even in brittany !!!!!! In my opinion, Wolf would be a good predator in scotland and could generate wildlife tourism... and if tomorrow wolf is reintroduce, i will be the first to visit Scotland ! ♡

Nice rational, balanced presentation of the issues.

Simple answer is yes, introduce 20 north of Loch Ness and you'd need about 35 miles of monitored lochside/canalside south of the line, requiring about 15-20 rangers for control (3 shifts + absence cover) and volunteer effort shouldn't be difficult to find. The area is almost uninhabited compared to the rest of the country and covers nearly 9000 square miles, most of which is not particularly productive land. Decrease deer culling north of loch ness over time to maintain prey levels and take a solid approach on transgressions of the boundaries (repatriation where possible/euthanasia for repeaters). Additionally limit wolf numbers to less than 100-150 by selective culling/sterilization (we happily neuter cats and dogs all the time). Due to the inaccessibility of the landscape accidental encounters with humans should be few and easily controlled by GPS monitoring. You have a gift of a natural boundary in scotland, make use of it for wildlife tourism and make money. It'll aid recovery of natural forest, increase biodiversity, bring in tourism and revenue with little/no risk to people and is fairly easily managed compared to most re-introductions. You'll get a further benefit in that the overall health of deer population will increase as the predators take out the weakest and oldest, not the "trophy stags" targetted by current hunting. Ground nesting birds may be a concern but effects would be limited by control of wolf numbers. As for sheep, use local compensation schemes funded through tourism income. An average grey wolf consumes about 2-7 pounds of meat per day, so for 100 wolves who ate ONLY sheep that would be about 1500 average weight adult sheep per year (there are 6.5 million sheep in scotland with a natural variance of up to 25% due to weather/disease). In reality most sheep consumption would be sourced through consumption of natural carrion which is fairly abundant due to the harsh life of a highland sheep, so the effects on live animals should not be a concern. As the landscape recovers over time and forest re-growth occurs, Lynx and boar would be viable re-introduction projects for the area also, with boar having additional economic benefits through meat production. I do not see eurasian brown bears as a viable re-introduction species except in fenced enclosures but would happily be proved wrong.

Bring them all back but protect them this time around.

Population expansion and overgrazing near wolf habitat may make fear of wolves real since by expanding to wolf territories trees will decrease, their prey will decrease and hence livestock being preyed on by wolves. But wolves preying on livestock can be controlled by use of fences or dogs like Irish wolfhound. So population and livestock management can enable coexistence between humans and wolves.

wolves have every right to live . they was here before us

Give public money to an industry that is only functioning because of all of the public money that is given to them because it is unprofitable? No. Stop the farm subsidies, phase out animal agriculture, rewild the uplands and start eco-tourism. It would be beneficial for the local economy and better for the environment and the animals that live there.

Omg are you kidding me!! bring back those wolves to me those beautiful wolves

wolves are great beasts they dont deserve to be extinct bring them back

The Scottish highlands and Ireland are the prefect places for wolves to be reintroduced. The highest places in England and Wales are also the perfect places.

I swear I saw a pack of wolves in Cannock chase, Staffordshire. It was at night i was walking back to camp passing through a small valley when my torch catches the eye shine of 12-20 animals just standing around next to each other. I didn't really know what i was looking at until i saw the eyes bopping up and down and blinking. The animals where about the size of small-medium wolves the eye shine was yellow in colour. They didn't do anything they just stared as i passed, i can't think of any other animal around that size that forums packs in that number. Maybe dogs but you don't really get wild dogs in England, especially out in the countryside. So maybe wolves didn't die out completely or someone has "unofficially" reintroduced them in small numbers. Or there's a pack of large dogs roaming around Staffordshire..

i will love wolves in the uk i really hope wolves come and they walk around BUT I HOPE THEY WILL BE FRENDILY

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bring them back theyre amazing

Humans caused the extinction of Bears too !

I think we should bring them back

Yes Wolves Should defiently be Reintroduced

I personally want wolves back because they are my favourite animal

It's a good idea please !! Not only to Scotland but to the rest of the UK as well I live in ingland we need are wolves Back JC 🐺

Love the wolf bring them back

Bring back the lynx and the wolf. Its a nice idea, though the fear of encountering a wolf pack is not unwarranted. I don't get any rush of enthusiasm for returning bears into the wold though. The only euro-centric folklore I've turned over about those was ever of the variety "beautiful girl alone in woods tragically killed and eaten by huge bear" type. Lone human suddenly encounters a bear in the woods, its always a horror ending. Girl grows up happy and full of life goes off to pick flowers or something. Bumps into de Bruin. Comes home half-eaten and totally dead. This tale repeats over and over, the typical fate of a woods gal is to get eaten by a bear. For men its usual to stub a toe and nick themselves shaving, thus attracting the attentions of a pack of wolves...

Utilizing predatory species, like wolves, is a good idea but for Western Europeans and Eastern Americans it would require intensive management. Yellowstone began with a little over a dozen and the population exploded; with this knowledge we know we'd have to control wolf populations so that they'd maintain proper ranges. Eurasian Lynx may be a good alternative but ultimately larger predators would be needed to cull deer populations because I doubt an adult lynx would hunt an adult Red Deer, but I don't know the hunting behaviors of lynx. Another prime place that I believe could use large predators is Oostvaardersplassen, NL. There, the population of Red Deer and Konik Horses have run riot and annual culling requirements can reach 25%.

Good idea for just about every reason you said

Where does the data for wolf MVP and area they would need come from?

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Wolves used to be in the UK for thousands of years

graet vid thanks for shearing

Bring them back

Say if this did happen, who or what will deal with a wolf population when that gets out of hand.

What if they introduce Tamaskans as a compromise either instead of the wolves or to defend livestock from the wolves?

Already here

I like the idea of reintroducing extinct animals back to the UK. But Wolves do pose a serious threat to livestock. One of the main reasons why farmers in the 18th and 19th century didn’t immigrate to Canada and America is because their livestock would be a lot safer in the UK. Of course NGOs could foot the bill, but is the cost seriously worth the benefit

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Its a good idea

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Good idea

They were here before us who are we to say no to them coming back

And Northern Ireland

That makes wild camping a bit more exciting

A word from Montana, create a trust fund to compensate stock growers at full market value.

Is good for the balanc predther end prey

I'm ok with bringing back wolves to the UK, I'd be more worried about them being displaced because a lot of new housing estates are being built on animal habbitats, it was about two years ago one night I couldn't sleep and I couldn't believe I saw a baby deer come really close into town it was near the local cemetary in town it was probably the first time I'd ever seen a deer come that close into town the poor thing must've lost it's when the new housing estates were being built

Bring them back!

We need to reintroduce wolves

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Great idea

Lynx would be a better choice as they don’t run in packs committing killing sprees

did i discovered this video too late?

Has anyone ever thought about the range of a pack of wolves? Try Wales? As everyone knows, predators are inherently lazy and sheep are much easier to catch than deer.

Bring them back to me!!!

make a park with fences. like other national parks.

Before hunting

I think its a good idea. Is it also true that bears used to live in the uk? And if it is do you think it would be a good idea to reintroduce them?

If we bring them back we need to let people have firearms to defend themselves.

I want them to bring back wolves. They are beautiful and wonderful animals. The farmers could be compensated and also use humane and non-lethal methods to “protect”* their farmed animals, such as electric fences and the use of guns to frighten the wolves away, and the use of (rescued and well-cared for and well-loved) guard dogs that would be trained to bark, growl and chase away the wolves instead of hurting or killing when possible. Yes, wolf attacks on deer are brutal, but they also help the deer by keeping the numbers down naturally so that they don’t overgraze and then starve or get killed by humans. They also benefit the deer by killing the injured, sick and old deer, ensuring that they are not left suffering for days/weeks/months/longer. Wolves are a vital apex predator. They also greatly appeal to people, such as goths, wolfaboos, furries, otherkin, therians, werewolf fans and others who just love wolves and dogs.

Bring them back I say.... the use of livestock guardians such as dogs would be a safe option to avoid any loss of farm animals.

It is a good idea I love Wolf 💖💖💖💖💖

We have Dingoes here in Australia, a small but closely related member of the Wolf family. Anyone who thinks that Wolves don't attack humans especially children should do some serious research into Dingoes.

Deer are a very good source of healthy wild meat and an income stream across the UK. No need for any more apex predators.

They should be brought back, but farmers and their sheer ignorance is getting in the way once again.

I think reintroducing wolves is a good idea

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don't bring back the Lynx youd have more trouble keeping them away from sheep in comparison to wolves seeing as they would just leap over any walls you put up

We need to bring back the woolly rhino and the triceratops

I agree to wolf's coming back. I would be happy to offer live stock as a good well offering because as stated we are the ones that got rid of them in the first place. Humans are to GREEDY

I think bringing back wolves is a good idea if they don’t bring wolves back soon grass could be over grazed causing creatures to starve but with wolves grass will be in good check and also wolves are native along with bears so bring them back

I'd love to introduce Kangaroos to the UK. Probably a bad idea but it would be great to see.

Where I used to live in Poland wolves started spreading like crazy. Some place now children are afraid to go out for a walk. Yeah great idea. Bring wolves back.

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I would like to have them back. But if they end up killing someone's sheep that they need to put food on the table, it's only fair someone foots the bill. "You broke it, you bought it."

Bring back the wolves btw i live in Scotland