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Units 8&9 Lea Green Farm Christchurch Road Downton, Lymington SO41 0LA Tel/Fax: 01590 645999 16 To advertise email: jqpeacock@gmail.com, or call 01590 643969 / 07801 562358
WILDLIFE MATTERS ……... to all of us ‘ REWILDING’ CONTINUED The Knepp Estate in West Sussex is a 3,500 acre farm and since WW2 had been intensively farmed but rarely made a profit. The landowners, Sir Charles Burrell and his wife Isabella Tree decided that they could not continue to work the farm the way they were doing. Having read about a re-wilding scheme in the Netherlands, they decided to allow natural processes to take place over much of their land. referred to as ‘apex predators’ such as lynx or keystone species like beaver and wild boar, which may be reintroduced later. They introduced free-roaming grazing animals, including Longhorn cattle, ponies, Tamworth pigs and deer to drive the regeneration of the farm. The introduction helped create a mosaic of habitats, ranging between grassland, scrub and trees. Their untried management of the farm has provided some astonishing results in biodiversity gain and the farm is now profitable, though not without a little help from providing commercial camping in yurts, shepherd’s huts and tree houses! The farm now has breeding Purple Emperor butterflies, Turtle Doves and 2 per-cent of the UKs population of Nightingales. Rewilding can best be described as an approach to ecological restoration, which focuses on natural processes. Regeneration is managed by free-roaming herbivores as we no longer have what are The following books are well worth a read. The first is ‘Wilding’ by Isabella Tree and the second is ‘Re-birding’ by Benedict Macdonald. Both raise challenging questions about the way Britain’s historical landscape forest has been perceived and the way wild habitats have been managed in the recent past. They also offer some tantalising ideas about what animals and birds might be reintroduced in the future to help recover our diminishing wildlife. However, re-wilding does have its own set of unique problems, one of which saw many animals having to be culled in the Netherlands on the Oostvaardersplassen nature reserve following extreme cold and unpredictable winter weather. The Dutch government has now set a cap on the number of animals, rather than leaving things entirely to natural processes. They also want new woodlands created so that the animals have somewhere to shelter during the worst of future winter conditions. Despite early successes, there is still a lot we need to learn about re-wilding! Further information from: Keith Metcalf – MCV Conservation Officer (01590) 645825 or (07771) 918449 or email keithmetcalf@btinternet.com www.milfordcv.org Please mention Your Village when responding to advertisements 17
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