within the past ten years, there have been studies that are in favour of allowing new wolves to come and live in the english countryside and scottish highlands again. one study was in 2007. researchers from norway, britain, and imperial college london decided that wolves would help add back plants and birds that now are eaten by deer. the wolves would keep the deer population lower. people were generally positive, but farmers living in rural areas wanted to be paid for livestock that were killed by the wolves.