List of Extinct Animals of The British Isles - Reintroduction and Re-establishment

Reintroduction and Re-establishment

White-tailed Eagle has been successfully re-established on the west coast of Scotland. Red Kite and Osprey have been successfully re-established in parts of England and Scotland. Ospreys have started nesting in Wales. Ongoing projects involve both these species; Corncrake into parts of England and Scotland; Great Bustard on Salisbury Plain.

There are plans to reintroduce European Beaver to parts of Britain, especially Scotland where a five year trial reintroduction at Knapdale in Argyll started in 2009. In 2008, Moose were released into a fenced reserve on the Alladale Estate in the Highlands of Scotland. Reindeer was re-established in 1952, approximately 150-170 reindeer living around the Cairngorms region in Scotland.

The northern clade Pool Frog was reintroduced from Swedish stock in 2005, to a single site in Norfolk, England, following detailed research to prove that it had been native prior to its extinction around 1993.

Large Blue butterfly has been successfully re-established from Swedish stock at a number of sites, but few of these are open-access. There are also several successful cases of the establishment of new populations of Heath Fritillary.