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There is no such thing as the wild in the UK?
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<blockquote data-quote="Frank-the-Wool" data-source="post: 7934096" data-attributes="member: 699"><p>I couldn't agree more, down here in the "affluent" south east many of the land owners are very excited about doing this.</p><p></p><p>I now ask them what do they mean by rewilding! It is an often an interesting conversation.</p><p>Most of them like the landscape and the view they have and want it to remain the same.</p><p></p><p>So I say do you want to return to prehistoric and have loads of apex predators roaming the forests and boglands? No not like that at all, we just want to have more wildlife.</p><p></p><p>So do you want to return to the Middle ages? Lots of trees and woodland and brambles with deer and wild boar and no tidy hedges or managed landscape. No we don't want that as we like the view we have.</p><p></p><p>So we farm it in the same way as now, keep the hedges cut, clean out the ditches and look after the soil etc? Yes that is what we want but with more wildlife. So is it OK if we control the predators like Badgers, Foxes, Magpies, Crows etc so there will be more diverse wildlife. Oh no we don't want you to do that as it is not natural and we want it rewilded!!!!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Frank-the-Wool, post: 7934096, member: 699"] I couldn't agree more, down here in the "affluent" south east many of the land owners are very excited about doing this. I now ask them what do they mean by rewilding! It is an often an interesting conversation. Most of them like the landscape and the view they have and want it to remain the same. So I say do you want to return to prehistoric and have loads of apex predators roaming the forests and boglands? No not like that at all, we just want to have more wildlife. So do you want to return to the Middle ages? Lots of trees and woodland and brambles with deer and wild boar and no tidy hedges or managed landscape. No we don't want that as we like the view we have. So we farm it in the same way as now, keep the hedges cut, clean out the ditches and look after the soil etc? Yes that is what we want but with more wildlife. So is it OK if we control the predators like Badgers, Foxes, Magpies, Crows etc so there will be more diverse wildlife. Oh no we don't want you to do that as it is not natural and we want it rewilded!!!! [/QUOTE]
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