Rewilding (bring wildlife back to where it belongs)

Rewilding is a beautifully illustrated introduction to rewilding, which is basically just leaving nature alone, to get on with it. Natural habitats are better than gardens for most wildlife – hedgehogs used to live in hedgerows (hence their name), and berries and hedges offer food and natural protection for birds and other wildlife.

In this book, you’ll learn about successful rewilding projects both here and abroad including:

• How beavers help to build dams, to stop flooding
• How wolves in Yellowstone National Park improved ecosystems
• How Galápagos giant tortoises survived extinction, by returning home.

Author David A Steen is a wildlife scientist and conservation biologist, who founded The Alongside Wildlife Foundation, which offers seed grants for small projects that help wildlife.

What is rewilding?

Rewilding is when people buy up land and leave it, so nature comes back to life. This must be done usually by experts, for instance beavers can only be released by experts, to avoid harm to other creatures and vice versa. And you could not release wolves in the hills, as dogs and other wildlife would be harmed.

Planners and builders can hire accredited ecologists at CIEEM, to avoid harming wildlife. Rewilding Britain recommends that if you are concerned over a planning project, to talk to your local Wildlife Trust.

Reform UK if elected, plan to give over all rewilding land to industrial farming, which could send many native species extinct. And increase both floods and wildfires.