13/08/2026
🐺 Could wolves cool our climate?
Wolves are one of our many lost species, and with that loss our landscape has shifted.
To put it simply... IT'S TOO HOT... and what's left is suffering for it.
But could reintroducing wolves to the UK help us with this heat?
Wolves are top predators, they reduce the numbers of other species like deer, but also change the behavior of the ones that survive. Deer spend less time in one spot allowing trees and scrub to regenerate. Roots will stabalise soil, and vegetation will increase water resistance causing previously straight rivers to begin meandering again.
More trees means more invertebrates, birds and other mammals.
Increased vegetation can support the reintroduction of beavers who create wetlands that...
- store carbon
- filter pollutants
- retain water during droughts
- slow the flow of water preventing floods
Did you know that wolves can do all that?
🐺 Happy International Wolf Day!
Reintroducing any animal, even if it is historically native and able to offer immense ecological benefits, is always a complex issue. A successful reintroduction always considers other crucial factors such as local opinion, cost of the project and most importantly, whether the species original cause of extinction and threat to survival is still present. In the case of wolves, persecution is still a very real risk as many people still are not comfortable with having an apex predator on their doorstep. What do you think?
But that's not to say it can't happen!
