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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 .
Depiction of a bear on a Roman-era engraved gem found in Britain. The historic distribution of bears and the impression the Eurasian brown bear has made on people are reflected in the names of several localities (some notable examples include Bern, Medvednica, Otepää and Ayu-Dag), as well as personal names—for example, Xiong, Bernard ...
Like many temperate areas, Great Britain has few snake species: the European adder is the only venomous snake to be found there. The other notable snakes found in Great Britain are the barred grass snake and the smooth snake. Great Britain has three native species of lizard: slowworms, sand lizards and viviparous lizards.
The Roman colonisation of Britain saw sporadic wolf-hunting. [5] Exploitation of wild fauna was limited in the latter half of the first millennium. [5] King Edgar the Peaceful of England is traditionally recorded to have demanded, in 957, three hundred wolf pelts from the kingdoms of north and south Wales. [5]
As is common in British heraldry, the bears are depicted wearing muzzles, perhaps reflecting the lack of wild bears in Great Britain and Ireland. Bear-baiting took place in Ireland in the early modern period, with it being common in Belfast ; a baiting in Dublin in 1726 led to a bull and bear escaping, with one bear "[seizing] one man by the ...
There are no endemic mammal species in Great Britain, although four distinct subspecies of rodents have arisen on small islands. The following tags are used to highlight the conservation status of each species' British population, as assessed by Natural England and The Mammal Society in a Regional Red List , following the criteria of the ...
After having been hunted almost to the point of local extinction by settlers, black bears have made a comeback in New England. While welcome news for the species overall, this means less available ...
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 ...