Conservationists are re - insert European brown bear and grey-haired wolves to a small paring of the British countryside as part of a scheme calledBear Woodorchestrated by the Bristol Zoological Society .
This will be the first clip in over millennium that the two animals have lived side - by - side in the country – European brown bears were driven to local extinction during Medieval metre ( or earlier ) , while gray-headed Friedrich August Wolf go away sometime around the seventeenth century .
The initiative can be conceive of as a beta or special illustration of rewilding , a conception that require returning the rude landscape to the condition it was in pre - human intervention . This could admit the planting of aboriginal flora , the removal of homo - made constructs ( like dams ) , and – of course – take back species that are topically extinct .
Previous examples in the UK include the re - introduction of thebeaver , pine marten , anddormouseto country of the land they have been expelled from . But more controversial isthe argument on whether to re - introduce vulture , like the bear and the wolf .
in the first place this year , researcher bring out astudyidentifying premier British existent estate for the Eurasiatic catamount and in 2017,a pack of wolf cubswas brought to the UK with the intention of one day let go of the animate being into the wild .
Elsewhere in the humankind , successful rewilding programme have seenthe Siberian tigerreturn to South Korea , bisonreturn to the Netherlands , andthe scimitar - horned oryxreturn to Chad . In the US , various rewilding project have seen the dominion ofthe gray wolfexpand after hundred of search drive the species to extermination in the contiguous Americanstates
Bear Wood is restricted to an area of just 7.5 Accho ( equivalent to 30,350 solid meter ) , so it is unconvincing tramp will demote into a wild bear or roaming wolf any sentence shortly . The exhibit is part of a wider initiative called theWild Place Project , which point to produce a sustainable future through its conservation and education workplace .
According to theWild Place Project website , Bear Wood will transport visitors to a sentence 10,000 age ago , " when the woodland was inhabited by European brown bears , European Friedrich August Wolf , Eurasiatic catamount , and skunk bear . " Back then , the woodland they are attempting to recreate for Bear Wood covered the large swathes of the country . Today , it makes upjust 2 per centum .
The showing includes a view walkway , commando place , classroom , rendering space , and café – as well as the four bears , the five wolves , and lynx and Wolverine .
Bear Wood is due to open on July 25 .
