Rewilding Europe

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@Wolverine :

About #8: Nice documentary !

But if I may so, this documentary tends to show that wolf isn't the natural predator of the wild horse. Thus, the wild horses will thrive and perhaps become too numerous, and of course the men will regulate their population by transfering some of them into other areas and perhaps too by... killing some other of them. Large natural areas aren't so many numerous in Europe, because, as you told, the human density population is often too high, especially in Western Europa.

And so what ? We know what happens when the herbivores thrive in a limited area: without natural predator, the natural biodiversity is threatened, including the plants, the landscape will go to degrade . And who was the natural (and more efficient than the wolf) predator of these horses before the Christian era ? In Europe they were completely exterminated around 100 years B.C...

The lion ! And I don't believe at all it will be possible to reintroduce the lion into Europa, even in a country where the population density is around 80 people per square km like the Romania. Reintroducing the lion into Europa would involve so much transformations as concerns the tourism, the local people customs and so on... I prefer not to think about it.

The European continent isn't the Indian country...

So, the man specy will remain the ersatz, the substitute for a natural predator. As concerns the wild horses, I can concede you that this problem isn't for tomorrow, but when an animal specy will thrive a lot, the things are able to change very quickly. If the wolves cannot solve this problem, the man will need to do it. That's unavoidable. But perhaps that is the natural Europa, the rewilding Europa if to recreate the Europa of the ancient time will oblige to reintroduce the ancient Europa lion. To recreate and reintroduce the Europa lion... Reply