PLANS for the most ambitious programme of species reintroduction ever attempted were unveiled on Tuesday – to move a population of whales from the coast of California to the coast of England.
“We’re going to fly them over,” says Andrew Ramsey of the University of Central Lancashire in Penrith, UK. “We’ll load them inside a cargo plane.”
Ramsey presented the daring idea at a meeting of the Society for Conservation Biology in Brazil. Grey whales (Eschrichtius robustus) have long been extinct in the north Atlantic. The population there was finished off by hunters, but other factors could have precipitated the…
