Prof Dominick Spracklen just explained on @channel4news.bsky.social how reintroducing 167 wolves in the Scottish Highlands could reduce red deer population enough to boost woodland regeneration, leading to 1 million tons of CO2 sequestred per year. 🤞 www.theguardian.com/environment/... - ThreadSky

annieleymarie.bsky.social • 60 days ago

Prof Dominick Spracklen just explained on @channel4news.bsky.social how reintroducing 167 wolves in the Scottish Highlands could reduce red deer population enough to boost woodland regeneration, leading to 1 million tons of CO2 sequestred per year.
🤞 https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/feb/17/wolves-reintroduction-to-highlands-could-help-native-woodlands-to-recover-says-study

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leegowing.bsky.social•58 days ago

https://www.yellowstonepark.com/things-to-do/wildlife/wolf-reintroduction-changes-ecosystem/

samproctor.bsky.social•58 days ago

My clients in Buckinghamshire have a problem with muntjac deer eating their prized roses. One of the solutions could be reintroducing wolves. 😜Surprisingly, he was not totally anti, saying at least he wouldn’t be asked to hang the washing out!

annieleymarie.bsky.social•58 days ago

Lynx could work in theory as they're not a problem to humans but they much prefer living deep in the woods.

samproctor.bsky.social•58 days ago

Probably not the most sensible idea for leafy suburbs and market towns of the Chilterns then!

timallwood.bsky.social•58 days ago

Sadly, we’re losing many trees in storms… a phenomenal amount went down in Storm Eowyn - 10,000 on NT land alone, including some over 350 yrs old. 🤷‍♂️

annieleymarie.bsky.social•60 days ago

The study:
https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2688-8319.70016

hammerth-1701.bsky.social•60 days ago

Apex predators are both an indicator for and a source of ecosystem health.

annieleymarie.bsky.social•60 days ago

Perhaps just "non-human apex predators"?

hammerth-1701.bsky.social•60 days ago

The position of humans within the trophic levels is up for debate. On one hand, we as sentient beings who use technology kind of supercede any natural order. On the other hand, we as omnivores do eat a lot of plants, so we aren't really the apex of the ecosystems we interfere with.

annieleymarie.bsky.social•60 days ago

I think how we define 'predator' is up for debate but maybe not the fact that we are acting very much as the top one - and we have quite a past:
https://www.sciencealert.com/ancient-humans-were-apex-predators-for-2-million-years-study-discovers

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