Mission rewilding: Scotland & Wales are trailblazing Europe’s nature restoration

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https://www.euronews.com/green/2024/12/11/mission-rewilding-scotland-and-wales-are-trailblazing-europes-nature-restoration

[ergophobe]

Meanwhile...

For most of the 20th century, the only known human deaths from a lion in California occurred in 1909, when a rabid animal attacked two people.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/31/magazine/mountain-lion-attack.html

Rewilding means it's getting scary out there sometimes.

[rcjordan]

>NYT

Paywall.  Funny thing about innerhtml, though....

Whether by coincidence or as a direct result, six attacks on humans occurred between 2020 and 2022, all nonfatal and all but one targeting small children. Certain regions of the state, meanwhile, became hot zones of lion activity — out of 31 lethal depredation permits approved statewide in 2023, twelve were in my home county. Three hours west in San Mateo County, a 5-year-old survived an attack on a hiking trail. Soon, the incident with Taylen and Wyatt would mark the first death in two decades.