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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.00,0:00:01.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(birds chirping}
Dialogue: 0,0:00:01.87,0:00:06.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{lion growling)
Dialogue: 0,0:00:06.99,0:00:10.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(birds chirping}
Dialogue: 0,0:00:10.04,0:00:11.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,♪ (guitar music) ♪
Dialogue: 0,0:00:11.37,0:00:14.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Rewilding means reversing\Nthe destruction of the natural world
Dialogue: 0,0:00:15.40,0:00:18.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and attempting\Na mass restoration of ecosystems.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:18.72,0:00:20.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(sound of bulldozer passing)
Dialogue: 0,0:00:20.30,0:00:21.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(birds chirping)
Dialogue: 0,0:00:21.33,0:00:26.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,♪ (guitar music) ♪
Dialogue: 0,0:00:26.09,0:00:29.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why is it that trees\Nare so amazingly resilient
Dialogue: 0,0:00:29.16,0:00:32.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you can smash them,\Nyou can twist them and splinter them,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:32.12,0:00:34.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but they still come bounding back?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:35.12,0:00:37.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And why is it that understory trees
Dialogue: 0,0:00:37.18,0:00:39.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like box and holly and yew\Nare so much tougher
Dialogue: 0,0:00:39.54,0:00:43.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than the big trees like oak and beech\Nand ash in the forest canopy.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:43.35,0:00:44.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,♪ (guitar music) ♪
Dialogue: 0,0:00:44.67,0:00:47.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think the same answer applies to both
Dialogue: 0,0:00:47.46,0:00:49.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that is elephants.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.68,0:00:53.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Does that sound crazy? I'm sure it does,\Nbut elephants were everywhere.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:53.74,0:00:55.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,♪ (guitar music) ♪
Dialogue: 0,0:00:55.07,0:00:58.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our ecosystem was dominated\Nby giant straight-tusked elephants
Dialogue: 0,0:00:58.94,0:01:01.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and if trees could not resist them,\Nthey would be wiped out.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:01.76,0:01:04.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,♪ (guitar music) ♪
Dialogue: 0,0:01:04.26,0:01:06.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the elephants in Britain,\Nthey were driven out
Dialogue: 0,0:01:06.59,0:01:08.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by the ice into the southern Europe
Dialogue: 0,0:01:09.28,0:01:12.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they persisted there\Ntill about forty thousand years ago.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:12.58,0:01:14.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So did rhinos and hippos.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:14.38,0:01:16.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Lions and hyenas lasted much longer.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.23,0:01:19.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But they were all eventually\Nwiped out by human hunters.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:19.89,0:01:26.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,♪ (guitar music) ♪
Dialogue: 0,0:01:26.16,0:01:31.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We live in a shadow land, in a dim,\Nflattened relic of what there once was.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:32.30,0:01:33.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(sheep bleating)
Dialogue: 0,0:01:33.31,0:01:36.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And rewilding offers us\Nthis fantastic opportunity
Dialogue: 0,0:01:36.73,0:01:38.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to start restoring systems or
Dialogue: 0,0:01:40.74,0:01:44.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,allowing them to restore themselves. I see\Nit as reintroducing missing plants and
Dialogue: 0,0:01:47.60,0:01:51.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,animals, then stepping back and letting\Nnature get on with it.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.81,0:02:01.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One estimate suggest that between 2000 \Nand 2030, around 30 million hectares of
Dialogue: 0,0:02:03.73,0:02:07.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,land will be vacated by farmers, and that\Nis an area the side of Poland.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:10.29,0:02:14.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So maybe, we're being a bit unambitious if\Nwe're talking about just wolves and lynx
Dialogue: 0,0:02:14.69,0:02:18.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and bisons, and otters and beavers, which \Nare already spreading fast across Europe.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:19.57,0:02:23.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Perhaps, we should also be thinking about \Nbringing back some of the lost Megafauna.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:24.77,0:02:28.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it seems to me that, REWILDING offer\Nus more than just the restoration of
Dialogue: 0,0:02:29.05,0:02:33.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the ecosystem; it brings back into our \Nlives a lot of thrill, and wonder and
Dialogue: 0,0:02:33.49,0:02:37.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,enchantment. And wouldn't it be amazing if\Neverybody had a Serengeti on their
Dialogue: 0,0:02:38.26,0:02:42.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,doorstep.Rewilding the ecosystem offers us\Na chance to rewild our own lives as well.