Any sniff of biodiversity should be welcomed but the farmers will cry bloody murder about it.
Practical_Trash_6478 on
Bom chicka wah wah
jimmobxea on
We need to stop this fantasy that we can reintroduce species such as this or wolves or whatever else. They’ll be shot or poisoned within days. And that’s not my opinion the Green Party thinks so too. It amounts to needless cruelty.
stevewithcats on
It would be great , but our tiny wilderness is for sheep farming, and the rest of the country is either dead forest or farms.
Farmer would hunt them to extinction in 4 weeks.
Important_Farmer924 on
Few tigers would be class.
layne101 on
We have enough mysteries to be paranoian us as it tis
Maybe if we get serious about reafforesting the country in a big way with native woodland we might be able to try reintroducing lynx in 50 or 60 years time.
It’s easy to call for reintroducing species but the reality is much more difficult, it will take decades of laying the groundwork before we should even think of attempting it.
defo-not-m-martin-ff on
Do we have enough land to support a healthy lynx population? Probably not.
Our deer population is already suffering from inbreeding, so probably no point introducing a species here if we don’t bring in enough to maintain a healthy population.
zelmorrison on
OMG my kingdom for a lynx kitten of my own.
SirJoePininfarina on
Only it’ll be called Axe in Ireland
NoKaleidoscope2477 on
Yes, absolutely yes. Big scary fluffy mountain cats is just what my weekend hikes needed.
BlearySteve on
Hard pass my ptsd for youth discos will be triggered.
Timely_Log4872 on
Probably not ideal to have in upland sheep farming areas. Nice idea though in theory.
Shadowbringers on
The whole island is one giant farm. Where will you put them? Native reforestation should be the initial priority
SpyderDM on
Would love to see it. We need way more forest though. Lynx need large swaths of forest to roam and hunt. Lovely animals and generally stay away from people and livestock. I had the good fortune of seeing one in the wild once in New England.
Itchy_Hunter_4388 on
Get the wolves back!
QuietZiggy on
Whoever proposed this should doesn’t live in the real world
DayzCanibal on
What ever happened to the jaguar in the Wicklow mountains. We need a whole truck load of them. Roindwoods been getting too big for its boots
Only_Beautiful_9698 on
Beautiful.
sirbobacus on
Not to be that guy, but they used a pic of an Iberian lynx and not a Eurasian lynx. Can’t comment under the rte article unfortunately.
JimJimerson90 on
Ireland isn’t big enough to be introducing any new species
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Any sniff of biodiversity should be welcomed but the farmers will cry bloody murder about it.
Bom chicka wah wah
We need to stop this fantasy that we can reintroduce species such as this or wolves or whatever else. They’ll be shot or poisoned within days. And that’s not my opinion the Green Party thinks so too. It amounts to needless cruelty.
It would be great , but our tiny wilderness is for sheep farming, and the rest of the country is either dead forest or farms.
Farmer would hunt them to extinction in 4 weeks.
Few tigers would be class.
We have enough mysteries to be paranoian us as it tis
Yet more shameless propaganda from Big Lynx
There’s not enough suitable habitat in Ireland and it’s too fragmented according to [this study](https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13364-022-00670-2).
Maybe if we get serious about reafforesting the country in a big way with native woodland we might be able to try reintroducing lynx in 50 or 60 years time.
It’s easy to call for reintroducing species but the reality is much more difficult, it will take decades of laying the groundwork before we should even think of attempting it.
Do we have enough land to support a healthy lynx population? Probably not.
Our deer population is already suffering from inbreeding, so probably no point introducing a species here if we don’t bring in enough to maintain a healthy population.
OMG my kingdom for a lynx kitten of my own.
Only it’ll be called Axe in Ireland
Yes, absolutely yes. Big scary fluffy mountain cats is just what my weekend hikes needed.
Hard pass my ptsd for youth discos will be triggered.
Probably not ideal to have in upland sheep farming areas. Nice idea though in theory.
The whole island is one giant farm. Where will you put them? Native reforestation should be the initial priority
Would love to see it. We need way more forest though. Lynx need large swaths of forest to roam and hunt. Lovely animals and generally stay away from people and livestock. I had the good fortune of seeing one in the wild once in New England.
Get the wolves back!
Whoever proposed this should doesn’t live in the real world
What ever happened to the jaguar in the Wicklow mountains. We need a whole truck load of them. Roindwoods been getting too big for its boots
Beautiful.
Not to be that guy, but they used a pic of an Iberian lynx and not a Eurasian lynx. Can’t comment under the rte article unfortunately.
Ireland isn’t big enough to be introducing any new species