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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]
Furthermore, using land for urban rewilding projects has an opportunity cost. [9] Property owners could utilize the land used in urban rewilding projects for a different purpose that is more economically beneficial. [9] Generally speaking, the preservation of wildlife conflicts with human development and sustainability. [9]
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. The organization also reintroduces native species.
It is the first official round of awards from the fund, set up to provide financial backing for locally-led land and marine rewilding projects, following a pilot earlier in the year.
Charity Rewilding Britain pointed to polling which suggested more than eight in 10 people supported restoring natural processes to land.
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 ...
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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.