US EditionStudy Finds 72% Support Potential Lynx Reintroduction to Northumberland
NORTHUMBERLAND, AUG 7 – A year-long consultation found 72% of local residents support reintroducing lynx to help restore ecosystems and address wildlife decline in Northumberland.
- The Missing Lynx Project reported that 72% of people in Northumberland support lynx reintroduction, following a year-long consultation.
- Their absence 800 years ago, due to hunting and habitat loss, contributed to UK wildlife decline, prompting consideration of reintroduction.
- Experts project a release of around 20 lynx into the Kielder forest area could grow into about 50 in north-west Northumberland and bordering regions of Cumbria and southern Scotland.
- Dr Deborah Brady, lead ecologist for the Lifescape Project, said lynx avoid people and pose no danger to adults or children, with risk to livestock considered reasonably low but still requiring careful management.
- Working with locals, the project aims to prepare an application for a lynx reintroduction licence down the line, Mike Pratt said it would symbolise the wildness of the forest borders.
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With experts saying that the lynx - one of only two native cat species in Britain along with the wild cat - could thrive in the woodland wilderness of Northumberland, locals are apparently behind repopulation efforts.
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Northumberland is the only area of England and Wales with enough woodland to support the cat species.
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