{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.