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The coastline is 11,803 kilometres (7,334 mi) long, and the number of islands with terrestrial vegetation is nearly 800, about 600 of them lying off the west coast. Scotland has more than 90% of the volume and 70% of the total surface area of fresh water in the United Kingdom. There are more than 30,000 freshwater lochs and 6,600 river systems ...
There have been calls for the reintroduction of the Eurasian lynx, brown bear and grey wolf to the UK, because no large predators are living in viable populations in Great Britain. It is theorized that a large predators presence could create a trophic cascade , [ 90 ] thus improving the ecosystem .
Paul Lister plans to release Eurasian lynx, brown bear, grey wolf, elk, wild boar and species already present in Scotland into a huge 200 km 2 (49,000-acre) enclosure at his estate, Alladale Wilderness Reserve, [21] although releasing top predators such as wolves and bears has become a difficult proposition with local and national regulations. [21]
Black grouse; Black-throated diver; Common buzzard; Western capercaillie; Common gull; Common sandpiper; Common cuckoo; Eurasian curlew; White-throated dipper
The Hebrides (Outer Hebrides in orange). The flora and fauna of the Outer Hebrides in northwest Scotland comprises a unique and diverse ecosystem.A long archipelago, set on the eastern shores of the Atlantic Ocean, it attracts a wide variety of seabirds, and thanks to the Gulf Stream a climate more mild than might be expected at this latitude.
It is widespread and expanding in Scotland from west to east, with a strong population in Peeblesshire. Bands of sika exist across the north and south of England though the species is absent in Wales. [7] A European hedgehog. There are also several species of insectivore found in Britain.
In Europe, there are 14,000 brown bears in ten fragmented populations, from Spain (estimated at only 20–25 animals in the Pyrenees in 2010, [5] [6] in a range shared between Spain, France and Andorra, and some 210 animals in Asturias, Cantabria, Galicia and León, in the Picos de Europa and adjacent areas in 2013 [7]) in the west, to Russia in the east, and from Sweden and Finland in the ...
The latter bear, from Western Russia, reportedly measured just under 2.5 m (8 ft 2 in) in head-and-body length. [62] An Ussuri brown bear of Hokkaido, a relatively small-bodied population, in the snow. In Eurasia, the size of bears roughly increases from the west to the east, with the largest bears there native to Eastern Russia. [63]