Why did wolves go extinct in England?

[*Kitten*]

I think that's a really bad idea. unless you guys are being over populated by animals that wolves should be taking care of, there's really no point in bringing them back, they are a danger to farm animals and to humans, if they are already gone, and you aren't over populated, there's really no point at all in bringing them back.

[[Paradox]]

The thing is, since there haven't been wolves there for awhile nature has already adapted to not having them, so reintroducing them might cause some problems.. I understand your point of view though, it's sad when an animal used to live somewhere and doesn't anymore, but perhaps the area just isn't suitable for them anymore. If it's not, and they can't find any easier prey, then yes they will attack humans. If too many "attacks" occur then hunting might be made legal on them... To me, it's just not worth the risk.

[Cosmi]

well..i dont live in England but..if they lived in a forest area like.. 10 or 50 ''miles''long that was fenced it and not get out with a bunch of wildlife they could hunt it would be good its not like a wolf could just randomley get in your house and attack you right..or can it?

[arcticwolf]

I highly doubt the Queen is going to take you seriously, especially if you're a kid.

[Onew~]

I highly doubt the Queen is going to take you seriously, especially if you're a kid.

I completely agree. Unless you have some sort of political authority or there is a large amount of professional biologists who think so, then nothing's going to happen, don't mean to burst your bubble o' hope.

I live in the USA, but bringing wolves back will only cause a problem unless there is a problem with overpopulation of prey species, i.e deer, rabbit, etc.

Zoos are not bad, or at least most of them.

[ghastlymirror]

The thing is, since there haven't been wolves there for awhile nature has already adapted to not having them, so reintroducing them might cause some problems.. I understand your point of view though, it's sad when an animal used to live somewhere and doesn't anymore, but perhaps the area just isn't suitable for them anymore. If it's not, and they can't find any easier prey, then yes they will attack humans. If too many "attacks" occur then hunting might be made legal on them... To me, it's just not worth the risk.

i agree, what a lot of people dont know is that despite the fact that a entire species goes extinct afecting the entire ecosistem, it will after a time adapt itself to exist without that praticualr species, sure it would it be a different ecossistem than before, so by introducing wolves again is a bit of a risk, the ecossytem will have suffer drasctic changes again with several consequences.
Also there is the matter of issue of introducing the right wolf subspecies.
Unlike what you think each region in the world (that have wolves) have their own wolf subspecies (the USA has the gray wolves, portugal and spain have the iberian wolf etc..),by introducing the wrong species your basicaly introducing an exotic species not native to the region.

And then there is the matter of having a certain number of individuals to make the population liable, if you dont have enought you might risk genetic inbreeding ( the chita is actually afect by this problem),and they need a lot of space and food, and im not sure if the population of their prey is big enought to sustain them, and there is a risk of them coming into conflict with humans, specially if some people raise livestock.
So it is more complictade than it seems, you cant just introduce an animal that hasnt been there for centuries and expect everything to bgo well.

[blazesong]

i have to agree with most

england has not had wolves for 100's of years in that time native animals and plants would have gotten use to it

and what about wild cross breeding? in aussie its rare to find a true blood dingo cause wild dogs(pets that got free) bred with them, as far as i know the only true blood wild dingos are on an island just off the coast where dogs are not allowed all the others are in breeding centers or zoo's and rare in the wild (i even meet a dingo cross thats a pet)

you could easyerley end up with wolf-dogs running around instead of wolves and then need to add more wolves to have wolves again and it would keep going on till england is over run with wolf-dogs

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I highly doubt the Queen is going to take you seriously, especially if you're a kid.

actually I just found that she is already considering it

they are going extinct so its a good idea because they are indidus to England and may save them from going extinct

[ghastlymirror]

i thought wolves in england were extinct already.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolves_in_Great_Britain

[Lonin]

Depends on the type of wolf, most wolves are not endangered at all. The ones that are probably wouldn't be introduced to the UK anyway.