Sir, – Your revelation in last week’s TSF on the official killing of sheep by predators in Norway in 2014 was 3895 ewes and 19,671 lambs. These facts come as a great surprise to me.
The Norway figures no doubt embrace all killings by lynx, bears, and wolves and probably wolverine too.
Mercifully, we do not have lynx, bears, wolves or wolverine in the UK. It seems to me, and many others, that introducing lynx is utter folly.
Such an introduction is but the thin edge of the wedge. The other predators will follow, do doubt supported by a dodgy ‘trust’ for each predator.
Sheep farmers have quite enough to contend with without adding to the challenges they face by having their flocks attacked and killed by lynx.
Despite the honeyed words of the so-called Trust for Lynx, the introduction of this animal means a lot of killing, much stress and distress, and a very high annual bill for the sheep farmers and subsequently for all of us.
Jim McGugan
The Square,
Letham,
Angus
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