Rewilding Europe

[Wolverine]

Thanks  @Spalea it was interesting what is opinion of one European as you on this topic. Many biologists, but not all have same opinion.

So you think that domestication of one specie is equal to extinction of the specie. In same time there is some difference between extinction of Smilodon and mastodont, we have only their bones and skulls, and on other hand the "extinction" of aurochs and tarpan wild horse, because their blood and genes are still here around us. Somebody even could say that a wonderful Swiss chocolates Toblerone or Milky Way are actually produced my "aurochs milk", but that's too radical. Everytning is bit philosophical - one could say that the bottle is half empty and other would say that bottle is half full. As long as I know there is no united view on this question between scientific community.

In any way, Rewilding Europe have many enthusiastic supporters and this programme is going on more than a decade. Very important is the aesthetics of rewilding arias. For example semi-wild horses should be mixed in one territory only with wisents, and aurochs-like cattle should be mixed only with deer in order landscape to look really wild and prehistoric. Its not good idea to mix in one rewilding territory a semi-wild horses with aurochs-like cattle because than this territory will look like a meadow of our grand mother...a ordinary farm land. But European bison and semi-wild horses together looks really great.

Auroch like cattle were already introduced in Velebit mountains in Croatia and now they are learning how to deal with local numerous wolves. In other aria - Eastern Rodopi mountains Konik semi-wild horses are roaming free and already learned how to protect themselves from local wolf packs. There is info that stallions are so aggressive that local wolves don't dear any more to attack the horses. Reply