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04/14/2008: "The law opposes real conservation"

Mr Lister, whose father created the MFI furniture chain, is spending vast amounts of money working towards the creation of a 50,000 acre reserve, surrounded by an electric fence, and in which the animals (native species which were hunted to extinction - including brown bear, lynx and wolf) would live free.

As a first step towards the reserve he has planted 80,000 traditional trees to join up the fragmented woodland, and the two moose and a breeding population of wild boar have already been released into a 500-acre site.

EU law says that there's no model for a wilderness reserve, that it would simply be a giant zoo and that it is illegal for zoos to house prey and predator together.

[ And it's such a long, big, massive, boring process to get exceptions, and no one wants the responsibility. Maybe our system of law has become calcified and needs to get replaced? ]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/04/14/eamoose114.xml