Are there any animals that you would like to see reintroduced to Britain?

45 comments

1. Pine Martens. They’ll see off all those bloody grey squirrels, but can’t catch the more agile reds.

2. I mean, I’m okay with not having predators on my back garden if I’m honest.

3. I love mega fauna. Bring back the bears. And the wolves.

4. T Rex would be interesting.

5. Re-wilding is amazingly effective at getting nature to rebalance. It has been trialled in Scotland with wolves, Devon with beavers and some other places. All have had massive positive effects.

6. Ammonites.

7. I dont know how realistically it is but I would be in favour of making national parks no-go zones to any humans and let more animals roam wild there, including predators like wolfs or bobcats

8. Give us big fuck-off elk again. I know the Irish Elk is long extinct, but regular elk are just as cool, and there are calls to trial their reintroduction.

9. I would enjoy a camel.

10. Werewolves. Might keep the teenager scallies in on a night.

11. Bring back bears and wolves. Fence off London and put them all in there.

12. I would love to see a push-me-pull-you again!

13. Wombles. Haven’t seen one about in years.

14. Maybe the aussies would send us some kangaroos?

15. Bears

16. Lynx (Proposed is Wark/Kielder)

    Beaver (Exeter and Scotland are in trials)

    Wolf (Likely in Scotland to moderate deer)

    Elk

    Bear

17. Mammoth 🦣

18. Lynx (they are so beautiful & ecologically suited), and wolves potentially in Scotland.

    Reintroduce apex predators for a healthy eco system. Rewild non-arable land and restore the temperate rainforest on the west of the island.

19. Dragons

20. Would love to have wolves back in Scotland and bears.

21. Bears, wolves, big cats. Give me the lot. Bollocks to the knock on effects, I want a walk in the woods to be dicing with death

22. Trolls

23. Baryonyx and pelorosaurus I think would be extremely beneficial to the UK.

24. Trilobites

25. Lynx. There’s a pretty solid environmental case for it too.

26. Lynx! And we almost got them not too far from where I live, but it fell through. As I understand it, some people (farmers?) didn’t want them and managed to get the project refused on a technicality.

27. Wild boar

28. Lynx, bears and wolves :3

29. That giant who was building the causeway. Get the bastard back in to finish it.

30. Wolves

31. The sabre-toothed horse.

32. Bring back the lions and unicorns from the coat of arms.

33. Wolf and lynx for sure.

34. Dragons.

35. Wolves.

36. trip to the park would be more interesting if there was even a small chance there was a crocodile in the pond

37. Storks

    They’re wonderfully characterful birds and used to be everywhere on our islands.

38. I’d love to see wild dildos roam once more.

39. Lynx, absolutely. Like most cats they’re fairly solitary and will run away rather than fight if challenged, unless they have very good reason to stay like defending their cubs.

    Wolves, and particularly bears, I’m not so sold on. While a lynx could still be very dangerous if it decided to hunt you to eat, it wouldn’t be such a problem if you happened to bump into it unexpectedly. It’d just run away. But a bear?

40. The Jabberwocky & the Jubjub bird; sorely missed.

41. Nessie could use a friend.

42. Wild bison

43. It would be amazing for Wildcats to be reintroduced in England and Wales as well as parts of Scotland that have none. It’s really sad that for a while, killing them was encouraged because they were seen as pests at one point and there were fears that they spread the plague (obviously *not* what happened!)

    I’d also love to see Lynx returned, it’s been a very long time since they died out in the UK but I think it would be very cool! Sadly that one would be a lot harder than Wildcats as a lot of farmers would worry over potential lost livestock. I know it’s really unlikely that it’ll ever happen though so I’ll have to make do with seeing big cats in pictures of them in the wild or in safari parks.

44. Bring back wolves. Will make the walk home from a country pub that much more interesting

45. I’d like all native species reintroduced. At the same time I think we should restrict the amount of land used for egregious purposes like sheep farming and grouse shooting.