The Birds, Frogs and Butterflies That Found Creature Comfort Again
Posted on: Saturday, 29 October 2005, 18:00 CDT
THE beaver has not made the list of extinct species the Government hopes to reintroduce to Britain.
Those which have attracted support include the red kite, which was hunted to the verge of extinction at the beginning of the last century.
Farmers and gamekeepers regarded the bird as a threat to their livelihoods. There are now more than 700 pairs, mostly in Wales. The great bustard, the world's largest flying bird, was hunted for food and became extinct in the 19th century.
A reintroduction programme on Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, saw only five survivors but numbers have since been replenished.
The pool frog died out in Thetford, Norfolk, in the 1990s, but 50 adults and 100 tadpoles from Sweden were released in August.
The white-tailed eagle, Britain's largest bird of prey, died out in the early 1900s but has since been reintroduced to the Western Isles of Scotland.
The large blue butterfly declined because of the loss of sheep- grazed meadows, but has managed to re-establish itself in Gloucestershire.
Daily Mail Reporter
Source: Daily Mail; London (UK)
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