[pvaldes]

All UK fauna is a mess currently. The terrestrial 'top predator' is the fox and when the biggest natural predator is of that size this speaks volumes.

English people did lots of silly experiments with his fauna. They have six deer not less, including roe, red, fallow and non native introduced Muntjac deer, Sika deer and Chinese Water deer, and even Wallabies. They have of course also cattle, sheeps, horses, rabbits since the roman empire, american grey Squirrels girdling the trees and Ringnecked parrakeets. Guess how many predators are introducted to save the day for the trees?... none. Everybody is grazing.

Some parts of Scottland have a few big trees growing naturally on small islands on lakes and not a single tree in the hills around. The Caledonian forest is bassically vanished nowadays. Scottish should aim higher and try to reintroduce the native european lynx at least, should be very easy because rabbits are a big pest and you have plenty of small islands to make a try and have all the control to go back if necessary, but even this idea face a big psychological wall whith all those sheeps roaming free.