Rewilding made simple: an animated guide

{Lions growling; Birds Chirping}

Rewilding means reversing the destruction

of the natural world and attempting
a mass restoration of ecosystems.

Why is it that trees are so amazingly
resilient that you can smash them, you can

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 applies to both
and that's Elephant, does that sound

crazy? I'm sure it does, but elephants
were everywhere!

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.