Rewilding Europe

[Wolverine]

(03-16-2018, 01:19 PM)Spalea Wrote: 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 ! To recreate and reintroduce the Europa lion...

Geniously! You Spalea arrived independently to same conclusion as many theoritics of rewilding before you... reintroduction in Balkans of the lion, where he inhabited only 2 thousand years ago in the time of Ancient Greece.
That doesn't mean that grey wolves cant limit population of wild horses, the quantity of the semi-wild horses and surrounding wolves is still too small to acess the impact of wolves on wild horse population, its too early to make conclusions. In Central Asia wolves limit quite well local semi-wild horses.

Probably you don't know but demographic situation in many countries in Eastern Europe after the fall of communism 28 years ago is close to catastrophic. Many of the this countries have lost from 10 to 20% of their human population due to mass emigration and very low birth rate. Gigantic farm and agricultural lands in the East were deserted, they start slowly to cover with forests. But European Commision doesn't want too much forests, it want this former agricultural lands to stay open grasslands and the tool for this will be introducing of big herbivores - wisent, wild horses and auroch-like cattle, they brouze and graze the small trees and bushes and don't allow forest to grow. Basically idea is to resemble the ancient primordial European steppe.

Population density in India is ar. 400 people per sq.km, 1,5 times higher than Germany. Population density in Kenya is 78 people per sq. km same as in Souteast Europe. Reply