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Branwen wrote:
...and it wouldn't be advisable to exercise your right to roam across Blair Drummond safari park.

There's a place where the fella wants to reintroduce wild bears and wolves to Scotland, and he's fenced it all in and is trying to have the right to roam there stopped for safety reasons, isn't he? Wonder how he got on.

I suppose with health and safety madness they will stop trusting scots to be careful on their own and start telling them where they can and cannot go soon too.

Paul Lister at Alladale . He has already got rid of one bothy and wants to erect electric fences around the estate etc . A fine area too.

I'm torn with that one - I'd love to see bears in Scotland again, even if they are the regular brown bears we had, and not the anciently famous and fierce caledonian bears, which could have been a hybrid, they say. Then again, a huge area would be out of bounds between them and the wolves. I seem to remember reading somewhere that it's only until people see they can fit into the environment again, then he wants it to be unfenced and have the american take your chance with the wildlife attitude to large and possibly dangerous animals.

Mercedes the polar bear from Edinburgh Zoo certainly seemed happier in her new huge country enclosure.

My Scatness (polar?) bear tattoo design is popular, I'm looking for a solar symbol to go above or behind it next, but I don't fancy the wheel ones, somehow.

Hi Tiompan, I thought I saw wild teddy bears in the Ibrox vicinty a couple of months back. Then funnily enough I thought I saw some of them in the Celt homeland a month later, but the Celts, an ancient tribe, bravely defeated them and drove them back. Afterwards the Celts were so happy they made their leader chief as well. And to make things happier rumours of a friendly Viking (probably Swedish) invasion to help with attacks in Europe.