Human nature will shape the feasibility and viability of proposals to reintroduce apex predators such as lynx or wolves.
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Guerrilla rewilders want to atone for past extinctions and create more vibrant ecosystems.
Alberta’s move to lift restrictions on trapping activities is scientifically unsound and will hasten population decline across the province.
A new study suggests lynxes were in Britain as recently as the 18th century.
Removing trees killed by fires can have long-term consequences for wildlife.
The abandonment of crops and pastures allows the natural regeneration of bushes and forests and the recolonization of fauna.
By sequencing the genomes of other species, we can better understand our place in natural history.
Domestic cats often travel hundreds of miles to their former homes – so why not an escaped lynx?
The case for why this dog-sized rather laid-back herbivore should be reintroduced to the UK.
There’s more to reintroducing wildlife than just releasing a few lynx.
In a rare conservation success story, research has shown that numbers of wild large carnivores in the continent have been steadily increasing and a third of the European mainland now has at least one kind…
Europe, the world’s most industrialised and intensively managed continent, is going wild. During the past three decades it has witnessed conservation successes with the most unexpected species: Europe…
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