Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The book describes the Knepp Wildland rewilding project on an estate in Sussex that had been run as a farm. The poor land made farming difficult, and the farm was failing. In 2001 the project began; farming ceased, and gradually fallow deer, English Longhorn cattle, and Tamworth pigs were introduced to fenced areas. Birds, insects, and flowers ...
Free-ranging longhorn cattle at Knepp Wildland. Knepp Wildland is the first major lowland rewilding project in England. It comprises 1,400 hectares (3,500 acres) of former arable and dairy farmland in the grounds of Knepp Castle, in West Sussex.
The 3,500 acre (1,400 hectare) [110] Knepp Castle estate in West Sussex was the first major pioneer of rewilding in England, and started that land-management policy there in 2001 [111] [112] on land formerly used as dairy farmland. [110]
Charity Rewilding Britain pointed to polling which suggested more than eight in 10 people supported restoring natural processes to land.
Land restoration, which may include renaturalisation or rewilding, is the process of restoring land to a different or previous state with an intended purpose. That purpose can be a variety of things such as what follows: being safe for humans, plants, and animals; stabilizing ecological communities; cleaning up pollution; creating novel ecosystems; [1] or restoring the land to a historical ...
Rewilding Argentina (Spanish: Fundación Rewilding Argentina) is an Argentine nonprofit conservation organization. It purchases private land, restoring ecosystems and developing wildlife corridors , then donates the land for national parks.
Here, Rewilding Europe is trying to increase the number of semi-wild livestock, such as feral horses and cows. Due to depopulation and land abandonment, there has been a significant decrease in grazing, which has caused natural succession and more plant cover in the landscapes. The organization promotes grazing as a tool to lower the risk of fire.
Sea rewilding (also known as marine rewilding) is an area of environmental conservation activity which focuses on rewilding, restoring ocean life and returning seas to a more natural state. Sea rewilding projects operate around the world, working to repopulate a wide range of organisms, including giant clams, sharks, skates, sea sturgeons, and ...