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Old 21-09-2006, 12:22 PM
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Re: Re-wilding

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Originally Posted by Sheryl LaBouchardiere
I've just had a look at the Ethos site and had a quick run through their pdf on Rewilding. I'd like to read on in more detail before I comment fully but their work sounds very interesting. I'm all in favour of returning as much land as possible to the wild, in fact thats very much my focus.
To qualify that last comment a bit, land left untouched returns to the wild pretty quickly. You can't re-create the Wildwood (I wish) but you can let Nature do her stuff. Perhaps with a little helping hand at first but then relatively interupted and see what happens.

However, the re-introduction of large carnivors is a difficult area. The British Isles are a collection of pretty small islands, there are enough difficulties surrounding the re-introduction of Wolves to Scotland. It would only work with a greatly reduced human population.
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