Returning 600,000 Acres to Nature, One Piece at a Time

Rewilding our Alpine areas. Image credit

From an article By: Peter Yeung September 7, 2021 :
As homeowners, churches and even railway operators “rewild” their land, biodiversity is flocking back to England’s East Anglia region. 

“This is about everyone,” says Hugh Somerleyton, still breathing heavily after tending to a band of horses on his farm in East Anglia, England’s far easterly region. “Rewilding should be a populist movement. It’s important that ordinary citizens feel like they are making real, tangible change.”

“Britain is becoming incredibly nature-depleted,” says Richard Bunting, a spokesperson for the nonprofit organization Rewilding Britain. “We’re being outpaced by a biodiversity crisis. Large scale nature recovery and rewilding projects are hugely important to try and turn this around.”

Ball says the impact is already visible: a recent flowering plant survey has revealed several more species than there were last year, with the gardens now teaming with flowers, long grasses and butterflies. 

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