A new rewilding project targets UK’s ‘breadbasket’

A new rewilding project, WildEast, is encouraging everyone in East Anglia - the most intensely farmed region in the UK - to give 20% of their land ’back to nature’.
A type of ecological restoration, rewilding aims to remove human intervention to create more biodiverse ecosystems that require passive or no management at all.
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[@janbaranski9022]

I live in the scotish highlands .and i live in a place were you can still see wildcats,sea eagles,foxes,boar,spuirrels,and badgers and i own some forest in witch every thing is so rich in biodiaversety and it,s just incredeble.

[@grahamt5924]

Sounds good

[@Kingsaxxy3872]

Good for you mate

[@GLENHARTSHAMAN]

When I was 15 I remember cycling in the countryside seeing fields of insects butterflies, pheasants, hares, FOXES badgers, field mice dormice, bats and owls, hawks, these are now very very rare sights, the countryside has been murdered for agricultural reasons.

[@theotheseaeagle]

I’d just like to mention, pheasants *aren’t* native to the UK and their numbers are actually increasing as a result of millions of them being released into the wild for shooting purposes. In fact gamekeepers release so many pheasants and other non-native game birds is that they can seriously damage the landscape and outcompete our native gamebirds like grey partridge. That’s not to say pheasants should be eradicated as they can live in small populations and do no harm it’s just when people release them on an industrial scale that it becomes a problem. There’s a reason so many pheasants get hit by cars or why so many accidents are caused by people swerving to avoid them and it’s because people place the pheasant feeding stations near roads

[@theotheseaeagle]

I’d also like to mention that sparrowhawks have also undergone dramatic increases in recent years. At one point they were incredibly rare because gamekeepers used to poison and shoot them to protect their non-native gamebirds (pheasants). Fortunately sparrowhawks are now a protected species and common sight in most areas. I always hear them calling and flying over my garden. One even landed on my garden fence the other day. In fact they are so common they can even be found in central London hunting feral rock doves

[@rogersmith8339]

On the farm where I shoot, all those species are thriving. And the buzzards are well fed on pheasant with red kite scavenging any left overs. The small bird species seen are wonderful and three species of owl are regularly seen.

[@rogersmith8339]

@@theotheseaeagle Even tawny owls are taking the pheasant poults where I shoot.

[@rogersmith8339]

In addition to the species you quote, deer are far more numerous than for many years with more than a few negative implications.

[@CalebKallimanis-le4zz]

You need to work with ecologist, botanist and scientist to make sure you do it right so y’all don’t do what the did in Argentina

[@TheRageng]

Encouraging!

[@thewealduk9802]

Wonderful, just inspiring, thank you.

[@patryklewandowski5377]

They just going to introduce more cattle species, grey squirrel and mainly horses got to go most of the land in england is dedicated for horses and food for them

[@tillycat3062]

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