Reserves plan to bring back wolves
BY JOHN VON RADOWITZ FENCED reserves could be set up to re-introduce wolves to the Highlands, experts say.
Research suggests packs in such compounds could be big enough to keep red deer numbers down without posing a threat to residents and farmers.
The scientists envisage grey wolf populations of about 80 per 1000 square kilometres of land.
Dr Christopher Sandom, of Sussex University, said: “A fenced reserve in Scotland could be a fantastic opportunity to return large predators to Britain, ecologically restore a large part of the Highlands and promote tourism.”
Without natural predators, increasing numbers of red deer are having a devastating ecological impact on parts of Scotland.
Professor David Macdonald, director of the wildlife conservation unit at Oxford University, said: “Scotland can lead Europe in thinking about how conservation, large fenced reserves and tourism can re-frame rural economies.” A FATHER who killed his three-month-old daughter was yesterday jailed for six-and-a-half years.
Traherne Williams, 23, threw little Sophia on to a couch, causing catastrophic brain damage.
The High Court in Glasgow heard he lost the rag because the baby kept crying and wouldn’t take her feed.
As he was led handcuffed to the cells, Williams smiled at his partner Shannon Main, 20, who is Sophia’s mum.
Lord Matthews told the killer: “You became frustrated and threw the defenceless child – your own flesh and blood – on to a sofa. This was before she