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The second half of RTÉ’s The Burren, a memorable enterprise, conjured brown bears, wolves and lynxes prowling Ireland’s palaeolithic landscape. After thousands of years, these charismatic mammals are now “rewilding” areas of Europe that were once part of their natural range. A third of its landmass has at least one of them, protected and promoted in the wide rush of guilt about human treatment of the natural world.
Hopeful stirrings of rewilding in Ireland have been topographically modest: a few wolves and lynxes restored to the few wilder bits would control the excessive spread of deer. But while boosting predatory species in Europe could build on natural restoration, the animals for this island would need to be reintroduced.