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We also need to use more land to protect air quality, water quality, the environment, and nature with schemes like rewilding. Dominic Buscall, Project Manager [ 9 ] Wild Ken Hill is a lowland farm with some grassland , meadow , heathland and shrub.
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 ...
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]
Strawberry Hill, a farm left to nature decades ago that is now home to rare nightingales and turtledoves, has been bought by a local wildlife trust.
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.
In 2019, Rewilding Argentina donated land for the creation of the Cueva de las Manos Provincial Park, which contains the rock art site Cueva de las Manos in Santa Cruz Province. In 2021, Rewilding Argentina donated over 50,000 ha (120,000 acres) to increase the size of the Iberá Provincial Reserve. [5]
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 ...
Permaculture is an approach to land management and settlement design that adopts arrangements observed in flourishing natural ecosystems. It includes a set of design principles derived using whole-systems thinking. It applies these principles in fields such as regenerative agriculture, town planning, rewilding, and community resilience.