You’d be forgiven for thinking it was an imaginative, if not bloodthirsty, way to get rid of farmers protesting against the new inheritance tax rules.
In June, the Lynx UK Trust, an organisation that campaigns for the reintroduction of wild Lynx to areas of rural Britain, formally applied to reintroduce the cats to the Kielder Forest in Northumberland. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) promptly refused, on the grounds that lynx are classified as dangerous wild animals. But then the head of the government’s wildlife regulator stepped in.
