(Photo: Kent Wildlife Trust)
With the effects of the climate crisis on the environment becoming increasingly clear, there are some interesting plans to re-wild areas with benefits for wildlife, ecosystems – and people too.
A very local project is the planned introduction of European Bison in Blean Woods near Canterbury, under the management of Kent Wildlife Trust and the Wildwood Trust *:
https://www.kentwildlifetrust.org.uk/wilderblean
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-53349929
Another on a much broader scale, led by a group of farmers in East Anglia, is the subject of an article by Patrick Barkham in The Guardian on 14 July:
Farmers hatch plan to return area the size of Dorset to wild nature
*Thanks to Peter Hassett for sending the links.