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