Floating Overseas Feature; Bears and Wolves in the UK!

This is a somewhat dated story, from this past summer, but it's so cool that I thought it worth posting.

The original reporting can be found here and here.  The gist of it is that through a project run by The Bristol Zoological Society, Eurasian brown bears and gray wolves will, for the first time in more than 1,000 years, live side by side in the British Isles.  The project is based around a 10,000 square meters wooded paddock that already contains three male bears.  Five male wolves will be introduced --and perhaps already have been, given that this story is old-- initially through an adjoining enclosure where they can acclimate to the bears presence, then later into the larger paddock. 

Among other things, the project seeks to study the trophic effects the species have on the flora and fauna in the paddock.  The project also houses Eurasian lynx and Eurasian wolverines and pine martens, though so far they are being kept in separate enclosures. 

Here's a link to a short BBC video that is a little more recent and that claims that the lynx and wolverine are being put into the paddock together with the wolves and bears, so that's even more exiting and will hopefully produce even greater scientific insight to the ways in which large carnivores interacted with each other and their local ecology prior to being hunted to extinction in the UK. 

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