r/UpliftingNews • u/globalwarmingisntfun • 3h ago
Bison Are Back in Britain After 6,000 Years
https://people.com/bison-are-back-in-britain-after-6-000-years-1207731190
u/chill_bees38 3h ago
And not long until tourists go airborne from getting too close. Have your cameras ready
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u/durtmagurt 3h ago
Problem is, they’ll be in a queue to pet the bison. It’ll be like British dominos.
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u/Bustable 2h ago
Every time this happens it reminds me of that quote from a game warden that there is a significant crossover between the smartest bears and dumbest humans
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u/rotoboro 2h ago
What’s the point of your negative comment?
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u/chill_bees38 55m ago
It’s not negative, it’s reality. Look up common occurrences with tourists at Yellowstone national park where bison roam free. They get way too close to the bison and then bison charge them, hit them, and throw them in the air. People don’t respect these things until they FAFO. No matter how many signs or warnings are put up, it always happens. So get ready for it
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u/rotoboro 26m ago
You read about positive environmental story on r/uplifting and you immediately imagine people being gored, and brought that image to everyone else’s mind.
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u/FighterOfFoo 3h ago
When did this come in?
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u/globalwarmingisntfun 2h ago
European bison were successfully reintroduced in 2022 to Kent (120 acre fenced woodland enclosure) and this went so well that conservationists moved some up north to start a much wilder herd in Cumbria in early 2026 (5000 acre mix of wetland and woods that’s an unmanaged open ecosystem - the first time they’ve roamed in the wild in Britain since the Stone Age).
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u/GrinningPariah 1h ago
What I think this article is missing, or I might have missed it, is where did they get the bison to reintroduce? Like they aren't cloning 6,000 year-old bison found in a bog are they? Or this would be a much bigger story
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u/Vettepilot 1h ago
I was curious as well. Apparently the bison went “extinct” in the wild but there were still animals alive in captivity. So those ones continued to breed and now they are re-releasing that bloodline.
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u/LoveDesignAndClean 1h ago
European bison only went locally extinct (extirpated) in the UK, they still survived in mainland Europe.
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u/StitchinThroughTime 1h ago
They are most likely American Bison. Very similar but different species.
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u/Holiday-Cell-1432 23m ago
They’re European bison. Just went to the zoo that’s trying to breed more to later release a new herd.
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u/yubnubster 0m ago
No they are bison taken from another part of Europe. I watched a YouTube vid on it a while back, think it might have been Poland, but not entirely sure.
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