New Forest Ranger 2022, watercolour (Shortlisted for the CO2RE Envisioning Greenhouse Gas Removal Images Competition)

New Forest Ranger, watercolour, 2022

The lynx was hunted out of existence in the UK, and is globally endangered due to climate change. Lynxes predate animals such as deer, that can strip tree saplings before they have chance to become mature forests. Some argue that reintroducing the lynx would assist re-forestation to reduce CO2. However one has to ask if it really is the deer destroying new forests, since cars that whiz through forest roads are killing so many deer, as they pump out greenhouse gases. Would the lynx also eat as many sheep as a village of people?