Plan to return the lynx splits friends and families in Kielder Forest community
by Josh Halliday and Nazia Parveen from Environment | The Guardian on (#2BC8B)
Northumberland nature reserve community at odds over application to import six of the mammals from Sweden
It is the idyllic nature reserve where walkers roam among roe deer and red squirrel while star-gazers enjoy the biggest expanse of dark sky in the whole of Europe.
But there's a blot on the horizon over Kielder Forest, in Northumberland, thanks to highly contentious plans to reintroduce the Eurasian lynx.
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