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Rewilding made simple: an animated guide

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    {Lions growling; Birds Chirping}
    Rewilding means reversing
    the destruction
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    twist them and splinter them but they
    still come bounding back.
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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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    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 offer
    us more than just the restoration of
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    the ecosystem; it brings back into our
    lives a lot of thrill, and wonder and
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    enchantment. And wouldn't it be amazing if
    everybody had a Serengeti on their
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    doorstep.Rewilding the ecosystem offers us
    a chance to rewild our own lives as well.
Title:
Rewilding made simple: an animated guide
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Video Language:
English
Team:
Amplifying Voices
Project:
Rewillding
Duration:
02:50

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