The European Wildlife Comeback Report 2022: Wildlife can return if given chance to recover

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A new report led by researchers at ZSL (Zoological Society London) and commissioned by Rewilding Europe, has found that the populations of several European wildlife species have increased in size and geographical range over the past half century.

Compiled by ZSL’s Institute of Zoology, BirdLife International and the European Bird Census Council, the European Wildlife Comeback 2022 report which was published today (Tuesday 27 September 2022) looks at 50 European wildlife species, including the Eurasian beaver, European bison, Eurasian brown bear, grey wolf, humpback whale, and white-tailed eagle. It highlights species that have made a comeback in Europe over the past 40-50 years, explores how they have recovered, and provides an outlook for the future recovery of European wildlife.

The European Wildlife Comeback Report 2022: Wildlife can return if given chance to recover
 
This is some of the best wildlife news I've heard in a long time. It also proves that Europe is way better at protecting and conserving large predators than the United States.

For example, and courtesy of the wonderful people at Rewildling Europe.

"Grey wolves, for example, are recovering across Europe and readily recolonise areas where humans allow their presence. The European Union is now strongly encouraging human-wolf coexistence by offering funding for prevention measures such as fences and livestock dogs, as well as full compensation to farmers across member states for livestock lost to wolf predation."

European wildlife comeback: new report shows wildlife will return if we give it space to recover | Rewilding Europe

Where is this kind of thing in North America!? It's non-existent and is up to NGO's to do this type of thing on their own. Why? There are three reasons for this, and I'll get into them later.
 
Pantheraman said:
This is some of the best wildlife news I've heard in a long time. It also proves that Europe is way better at protecting and conserving large predators than the United States.

For example, and courtesy of the wonderful people at Rewildling Europe.

"Grey wolves, for example, are recovering across Europe and readily recolonise areas where humans allow their presence. The European Union is now strongly encouraging human-wolf coexistence by offering funding for prevention measures such as fences and livestock dogs, as well as full compensation to farmers across member states for livestock lost to wolf predation."

European wildlife comeback: new report shows wildlife will return if we give it space to recover | Rewilding Europe

Where is this kind of thing in North America!? It's non-existent and is up to NGO's to do this type of thing on their own. Why? There are three reasons for this, and I'll get into them later.
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I can see the following reasons :
  • Europe is made of tens of countries, many of them are small-sized, so a continental approach (with the help of EU) is needed to ensure wildlife recovery ;
  • The economical development levels of these countries are very different, it implies solidarity in favour of poorer countries (especially after the enlargements to the East after the 2000's), and even an action outside the borders of EU, for example in Albania and even Ukraine ;
  • Large predators conservation has to cope with traditional practices as pastoralism (and has to be funded to be feasible and accepted), that are part of European cultural landscapes for centuries if not millenia.
Conversely North America includes only two very large, continent-like and wealthy countries (I don't include Mexico, where the conservation issues are much more "neotropical" except in the arid Far North where a few trans-border conservation programs exist, for example for the Californian Condor and the Mexican Wolf ; I don't include the Caribbean isles for same reasons).
And large parts of the continent, especially in Canada, are hostile to much human activities.
Only birds and marine life are, in my opinion, eligible to broader conservation policies that encompass all the American continent. I would add a few programs for large land mammals like the paseo del jaguar (in Spanish !) but the US contribution to the recovery of this species would be marginal - if it exists some day - and Canada wouldn't simply be concerned).
 
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