{Lions growling; Birds Chirping}
Rewilding means reversing
the destruction
twist them and splinter them but they
still come bounding back.
And why is it that understory trees like
bucks and hollys and you are so much
tougher than the big trees like oak, and
beech, and ash in the forest canopy.......
I think the same answer to both and that
is Elephant, does that sound crazy?
I'm sure it does, but elephants were every
where!
Our ecosystems was dominated by giant
straight tusk elephants and if trees
could not resist them they would be wiped
out. And the Elephants in Britain, that
were driven out by the ice in the Southern
Europe and they persisted there to about
forty thousand years ago and so did rhinos
and hippos, lions, and hyenas lasted much
longer; but they were all eventually wiped
out by human hunters.
We live in a shadow lab than in a dim
flattened relic of what that once was...
and rewilding offers us this fantastic
opportunity to start restoring systems or
allowing them to restore themselves. I see
it as reintroducing missing plants and
animals, then stepping back and letting
nature get on with it.
One estimate suggest that between 2000
and 2030, around 30 million hectares of
land will be vacated by farmers, and that
is an area the side of Poland.
So maybe, we're being a bit unambitious if
we're talking about just wolves and lynx
and bisons, and otters and beavers, which
are already spreading fast across Europe.
Perhaps, we should also be thinking about
bringing back some of the lost Megafauna.
it seems to me that, REWILDING offer
us more than just the restoration of
the ecosystem; it brings back into our
lives a lot of thrill, and wonder and
enchantment. And wouldn't it be amazing if
everybody had a Serengeti on their
doorstep.Rewilding the ecosystem offers us
a chance to rewild our own lives as well.