I think Beavers are a positive, and reestablishment of a UK managed population will be a positive and government delay is wrong given the process undergone, but let us not pretend everybody agrees, they don't, that should not stop process, we can not avoid doing things because a minority disagree, - ThreadSky

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amiesphilip.bsky.social • 8 hours ago

I think Beavers are a positive, and reestablishment of a UK managed population will be a positive and government delay is wrong given the process undergone, but let us not pretend everybody agrees, they don't, that should not stop process, we can not avoid doing things because a minority disagree,

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amiesphilip.bsky.social•8 hours ago

but I guess it is more difficult when that minority own most of the land and have much influence. I also don't think that is right. Main issue for me is shadowy rewilders behind this may decide to do something much less acceptable, or plain wrong-headed. I like to think a distinction exists within

amiesphilip.bsky.social•8 hours ago

their minds between native, and dubiously so, but as White Storks have shown, not so much, especially when a unique selling point attraction for a tourist destination and for a movement sought, people certainly have benefitted from that, it was legal which makes me wonder if people will start to

amiesphilip.bsky.social•8 hours ago

introduce anything they want, which you would hope is a separate group, a modern illegal version of historic legal acclimatisation societies which have left us with Grey Squirrel, Muntjac, Chinese Water Deer, Sika etc which is a reason we have rules. I'm sure most rewilders do sharply differentiate

amiesphilip.bsky.social•8 hours ago

between native and non-native, but White Stork illustrates the disputed nature of native status. If European Pond Turtle went extinct due to climate, then according to island biogeography ideas that is exactly the stochastic events which produce a unique assemblage.

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