Wildlife reintroduction sites

Scottish Beavers Network
The Scottish Beaver Network is a small group of landowners, ecologists, wildlife managers, photographers, tourist operators and wildlife enthusiasts who are enthusiastic about seeing beavers restored to Scotland as soon as possible. Their web site provides information about European beavers and beaver reintroductions.

Reintroduction of Beaver in Sweden
This site contains a summary of the successful programme of beaver reintroduction in Sweden, which began with 80 beavers being brought from Norway between 1922 and 1939, and 70 years later resulted in a Swedish beaver population estimated at 100,000.

Beavers at Aigas, Scotland
In April 2006 a pair of Eurasian beavers were released into an enclosure on the loch at Aigas. They have since built a lodge and bred.

Tooth and Claw
An independent project profiling Britain's predators and our fascination with them and also the most comprehensive survey on how people really feel about predators.

Large Carnivore Initiative for Europe
The Large Carnivore Initiative for Europe (LCIE) is a network of European organisations and experts from 25 countries working to secure viable populations of large carnivores in coexistence with people. Their web site provides the latest news and information about brown bears, wolves, lynxes and wolverines in Europe.

The Alladale Wilderness Reserve
The Alladale Estate is an hour north of Inverness. In the wilderness reserve, they are planning controlled releases of bear and wolves into their natural habitat.

Reintroduction of the European Lynx (Lynx lynx) in Poland
This site contains details of the reintroduction of European lynx to the Kampinoski National Park, near Warsaw in Poland in the 1990s. It also includes breif summaries of the reintroduction of European beaver, European bison and elk to the same area.

Wolf Trust
Wolf Trust promotes the reintroduction and recovery of wolves in the Scottish Highlands, and this site includes an analysis of why, where and how wolves could be returned to their former habitat in Scotland.

Wolves and Humans Foundation
A charity dedicated to helping conservation of wolves, as well as bears and lynx, by finding solutions to the problems of living alongside people, through practical measures, education and research. Their site includes pages detailing the history of the wolf in the UK, and exploring the issues surrounding the possible reintroduction of wolves to the Highlands of Scotland.

Wolf Watch UK
Wolf Watch UK is working to promote the conservation of wolves, and specifically to establish a Wolf Conservation/Education Centre with research facilities, which will be the first of its kind in the UK.

UK Wolf Conservation Trust
The UK Wolf Conservation Trust is a non-profit organisation created to promote wolf conservation through education.

International Wolf Center
Based in Minnesota, USA, the International Wolf Center is the world's leading wolf research organisation. Their site includes extensive information about wolves, and about the status of the species in the USA, as well as various photographs and sounds of wolves.

Idaho wolf reintroduction
This site features an extensive overview and history of the wolves which were reintroduced to Idaho in the USA in 1995.