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Dialogue: 0,0:00:35.96,0:00:36.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{Lions growling; Birds Chirping}\NRewilding means reversing the destruction
Dialogue: 0,0:00:36.35,0:00:36.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the natural world and attempting a mass\Nrestoration of ecosystems.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:36.82,0:00:37.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why is it that trees are so amazingly\Nresilient that you can smash them, you can
Dialogue: 0,0:00:37.72,0:00:37.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,twist them and splinter them but they \Nstill come bounding back.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:37.32,0:00:37.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And why is it that understory trees like \Nbucks and hollys and you are so much
Dialogue: 0,0:00:37.57,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,tougher than the big trees like oak, and\Nbeech, and ash in the forest canopy.......
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think the same answer to both and that\Nis Elephant, does that sound crazy?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm sure it does, but elephants were every\Nwhere!
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our ecosystems was dominated by giant \Nstraight tusk elephants and if trees
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,could not resist them they would be wiped\Nout. And the Elephants in Britain, that
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were driven out by the ice in the southern\NEurope and they persisted there..to about
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,forty thousand years ago and so did rhinos\Nand hippos, lions, and hyenas lasted much
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,longer; but they were all eventually wiped\Nout by human hunters.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We live in a shadow lab than in a dim \Nflattened relic of what that once was...
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and rewilding offers us this fantastic \Nopportunity to start restoring systems or
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,allowing them to restore themselves. I see\Nit as reintroducing missing plants and
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,animals, then stepping back and letting\Nnature get on with it.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One estimate suggest that between 2000 \Nand 2030, around 30 million hectares of
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,land will be vacated by farmers, and that\Nis an area the side of Poland.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So maybe, we're being a bit unambitious if\Nwe're talking about just wolves and lynx
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and bisons, and otters and beavers, which \Nare already spreading fast across Europe.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Perhaps, we should also be thinking about \Nbringing back some of the lost Megafauna.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it seems to me that, REWILDING offers us\Nmore than just the restoration of the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ecosystem; it brings back into our lives a\Nlot of thrill, and wonder and enchantment.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And wouldn't it be amazing if everybody\Nhad a Serengeti on their doorstep.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Rewilding the ecosystem offers us a chance\Nto rewild our own lives as well.