Rewilding Britain (our national charity)

Rewilding Britain is our national rewilding charity. It’s important that rewilding is done by experts, you can’t just release beavers anywhere, so let’s leave it people who know what they are doing!

This organisation is campaigning for large-scale efforts to rewild at least 1% of Britain (by leaving nature alone and not using it for development) with a development for governments to rewild 30% of land.

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.

The idea is to help native plants and species thrive, and to save endangered species (hedgehogs, dormice, water voles) from extinction, which is nearly all due to lack of habitat. Even red squirrels are mostly endangered due to lack of suitable habitat, but all media talk about is squirrelpox virus (a vaccine is pending).

The site has tips on how to make your garden wilder. Read more on pet-friendly gardens and humane slug/snail deterrents and never use netting. Also read about wildlife-friendly ponds.

Top tips include:

Garden organically (you can recycle empty chemical bottles, but take half-empty ones to hazardous waste for recycling, don’t pour them down drains.
Leave out logs and fallen leaves, and build hedgehog highways (you can close the holes up during the day to keep pets safe, as hogs are nocturnal).
Get together with others in your Rewilding Network to share information, and make new friends.
Create spaces for wildlife if you border a nature reserve. The charity encourages neighbours to form rewilding clusters so wildlife have larger areas of land. If you own land from 10 to 40 hectares (land or water) get in touch for help and advice.
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 for expert help and advice.