Letting Nature Manage Itself.

Over the weekend read an article taking about reintroducing Lynx back into the wild in Scotland to manage the exploding Deer population which are over grazing and damaging there forest homes. Lynx were hunted to extinction by us so first off I don't see the issue with reintroduction in this case although there are obvoius issue with how do you stop them hunting and kill livestock and a few people have raised concerns about them attacking people. Education is what is needed in cases like this because if you can show people the benifits of reintroducing them then some of the concerns would soon disappear and nature could get back to what it does best in managing itself. Its not just in Scotland where deer populations are beginning to be problematic in our forest's and woodlands when not managed well, the main issues is how they damage young trees and over grazing on the forest floor means that some of the more smaller forms of life are losing there habitat and then disappearing themselfs. A few weeks ago I saw a program on tv that showed the benifits of a reintroduction on a slightly larger scale in Yellowstone Park in America, here Wolves were returned again to manage populations of deer and larger mammals because of the booming population and the similar issues we have here. What they were suprised to find was the huge positve impact they had on the environment with increase numbers of beavers because of the smaller trees in the forest now able to thrive and this inturn meant other species returned because of the increased wetlands the beaver created. This I find is the most interesting part in that a small change can have much wider implications for the good of the environment, of course this isn't always the case because some species reintroductions have had a negative effect but on the whole we now have greater understand about where and when its the right time for these to take place. The question then is are we ready for the return of the Lynx?