{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.