Are there bears in britain

Dr Craig Bennett has argued that bears should be reintroduced because losing them was like losing the works of Shakespeare. Although reintroducing bears may not be happening anytime soon, some conservationists have been working to create habitats that the bears could one day call home. The Bristol Zoological Society even set up a project called Bear Wood which has bears, lynxes and wolves living together in an example of what forests in the UK used to look like. Large adult brown bears can grow to the the size of a 6ft man and can weight up to or kg.

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