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A Scottish landowner is planning to create a Highlands wildlife reserve stocked with brown bears, wolves, and lynx.

Paul Lister, who has already introduced moose on to his estate, plans to repopulate it with animals not seen in Britain for hundreds of years.

“When you have radical ideas like this, people think you’re a crackpot,” he told the BBC.

“What I’m aiming to do is to create a wilderness and wildlife reserve similar to those that exist in Southern Africa; something that is controlled, managed and fenced.

“It is nothing like Britain or Europe has ever seen before.”

A pair of moose have recently arrived from Sweden and have been settling into a 450 acre enclosure within Mr Lister’s Alladale Estate.

He says there is still much to do before larger predators can be brought in, but believes the reserve could be up and running in two to five years.
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