Rewilding Britain 2020 Year Review 🌱 Happy Rewilding Day!

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There are so many projects in place across the country and loads being proposed! my upcoming film Rewilding Britain will explore many more!

Wild bison to be reintroduced to UK for first time in 6,000 years

2020 is set to see the reintroduction of European Bison to the UK for the first time in thousands of years.

Wild Ennerdale, Cumbria

A partnership between the Forestry Commission, National Trust and United Utilities, Wild Ennerdale formed to create a wild valley where natural processes determine how the landscape and ecology of the area is shaped and developed.

B-line Initiative to Create Wildflower Highways Across England to Help Pollinators

The conservation charity Buglife is the only organisation in Europe devoted to the conservation of all invertebrates. Their new initiative named B-lines an online map will create a network of wildflower highways across England to help bees and other pollinators.

Rewilding britain to rewild 300,00 acres of land.

The conservation charity, Rewilding Britain, is going full force to rewild the UK, with the aim of turning an area the size of Greater Manchester over to nature within three years.

Beavers Are Allowed to Stay in Devon!

The decision has been announced by Defra that England’s first wild breeding population of beavers for 400 years has been given the permanent right to remain in their East Devon river home.

Beavers have built a dam

The beavers have been busy and footage shows them at work building a dam. The trust has already spotted kingfishers on-site and are expecting to see a lot more wildlife soon like amphibians, insects, bats and birds.

Dingle Marshes, Suffolk

A coastal location, what makes this reserve interesting is that there is no attempt to protect the area from sea level rises, with the general acceptance that over time the environment will become more saline.

Teenage Mission to Rewild Britain with Reptiles and Amphibians

Two teenage boys are on a mega mission to rewild Britain. Harvey Tweats and Tom Whithurst are building an amazing project. They want to replace the toads, frogs and lizards to British ponds, lakes and wetlands once more.

Rewilding Success with the Golden Eagle in Scotland

For the first time in 40 years a pair of golden eagles have successfully bred at an estate in the Scottish Highlands thanks to the help of an artificial nest.

Pesticide Metaldehyde to be banned by March 2020!

The outdoor use of metaldehyde, a pesticide used to control slugs on farms and in gardens is set to be banned in Great Britain.
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Rewilding Britain - Seawilding 1 Million Oysters in the UK

In Loch Craignish, on the west coast of Scotland is popular with fisherman, sailors and tourists. Danny Renton, a radio documentary maker and founder of the Seawilding project, wants to restore the loch’s marine life to its former glory.

Rewilding Britain with the Dalmatian Pelican

A new rewilding effort which aims to expand the UK’s marshlands could see the return of the Dalmatian pelican.

Knepp Estate

A five year monitoring survey carried at Knepp reveals astonishing wildlife success.

Red Squirrels in cumbria

The Red Squirrel Survival Trust is the largest national charity protecting Britain’s iconic native species and has raised more than £50,000 in funding for the Animal and Plant Health Agency for the continuation of pioneering research into non-lethal grey squirrel management.

Vincent Wildlife Pine Marten Recovery Project, Mid Wales

The Vincent Wildlife Trust will be releasing pine martens brought down from Scotland into 20 woodland sites across mid wales. The first of these reintroductions has already happened with 20 animals being released. The translocated pine martens have become established and breeding has been recorded every year since the translocation began.

Happy rewilding day!

References


"zHDR Wild Ennerdale-8_DCE" by Theregsy is licensed under CC BY 2.0

"Dingle marsh and Dunwich Forest" by Simon Leatherdale is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0

"Dingle Marshes" by Chris Holifield is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0

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English: kannur kattampally
Date 28 November 2019
Source Own work
Author afsarnayakkan

"Looking into Dingle Marshes Nature Reserve from the beach" by Chris Holifield is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0

"Dingle Marshes near Dunwich" by Mat Fascione is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0

[sergeikuptsov]

I'm writing this comment from Russia and want to say that european beavers now live just over all the Moscow city parks and european bisons successfully returned not only to all national parks along the Oka river but in rural landscapes nearby too.
And it is wonferful. :)

[mckelloggs]

Rewilding restores my faith in humanity

[ProjectDarkWolf]

There's only one invertebrate conservation organization in europe? That's insane. Also, I wonder how all that dam building by beavers will influence the local environment in years to come. Also also, seawilding. What a name.

[pogues]

All this good news, it's a mental tonic. Well presented, I thank you.

[JackoJ]

The Hampshire Sea Eagle project deserves a name drop too! But awesome video.

[hughfranklin]

I read somewhere that red squirrels numbers were on the rise because of the rise of pine Martin numbers, it seem the reds can evade the martins but the greys can't, I hope this is true.

[Submarine_]

It would be great if golden eagles could come back too- my grandma and grandad live in Penrith in the Lake District and they say they used to see them sometimes.

[abdusqamar]

Thanks for the update it’s great to see how much progress we’ve made I thought it was little to none. It really gives you hope

[malcolm]

I didn't know Britain had had pelicans. That's awesome

[outdoorsy]

Rewilding is what I do for a living. I personally think the most positive change is the change in mindset. I rewild more gardens these days and it seems more people each year want to do more by, doing less. After revisiting a few gardens since the end of lockdown, wildlife is flourishing. It really is Dow to the every day person if we're going to make a difference. Love this content.

[LiamB]

I've had such a negative outlook on life recently, things just seem bad at the moment. nice just to hear a bit of positivity for a change, keep it coming.

[christopherbzowski]

yay hopefully wolves and lynxs will be in Scotland soon

[dancullender]

So nice to hear about all this positive news

[kevinkearney]

This is very inspiring! Thank you for cataloguing and detailing this important work so that more and more of us can push this movement forward. We are finally catching up in CA with wildlife bridges and tunnels for mountain lions and replacing invasives with native plants :)

[awestruckbeaver]

This truly fills my heart with joy seeing the UK regain so much of its wilderness.
Let's hope that this trend carries on in positive trends, especially with the red squirrels. I haven't seen any red squirrels in at least 15 years.

[theotheseaeagle]

Wow this looks very promising! HAPPY REWILDING DAY!

[robertclarke]

Such amazing projects. Do you know of anything happening in Northern Ireland?

[paladintrueknight]

Now this is what YouTube is great for.

[Submarine_]

If you want to see red squirrels then Formby is a great place- they have a pine forest dedicated to the reds, and any greys they see are taken away

[prettybird]

What a wonderful video thank you. I live in the US and I’m very grateful that Joe Biden is now our new president with that being said hopefully someone can do a video of we wilding stories like yours from the US