Actually they were brought in to try and address the deer breeding explosion that's happening. Many accidents are occurring involving deer/stags and they are wrecking forests and vegetation on a scale never seen before.
Wolves are more afraid of man than man is of them.
As long as wolves have food(which they do up North) they won't come within a mile of anyone and will do anything to avoid coming in contact with man.
The remote parts of Scotland are so vast you could spend 10 years trying to see one and probably never would.
"'There are wolves all over Europe and they don't cause problems. When was the last time you heard someone being killed by a wolf?
'Statistics show that you have more chance of being killed in a car going to visit a wolf in captivity than you have of being attacked by one in the wild. And no lynx has ever killed a child or a human. Reintroducing them could allow our children the chance to enjoy our amazing natural heritage which has been wiped out by upland sheep farming."
"Peter Smith, CEO of the Wildwood Trust, said the charity wants to reintroduce lynx in the next few years, followed by wolves in around two decades, and brown bears within 50 years. But they first must meet rewilding protocols set out by The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and then gain a licence from Natural England.
'These animals were all once native to Britain, and the benefits they could bring to the ecology of Britain would be immense," he said
'Wolves and lynx will change the behaviour of the deer, causing populations to drop naturally, which helps plants and trees to flourish."
Not so sure about bringing bears back mind you