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Scale rewilding of the countryside. you argued, in britain, for example, that thousands of years ago, a whole host of large wild animals, including lions, bison, roamed the land. and you appeared to suggest that if we could only stop farming much of this land and leave it wild, we could expect, in the long run, obviously with careful management, some of these large mammals to reappear, a new wilderness to emerge. is that what you want to happen, and believe can happen notjust in the uk, but around the world? i don't use the term wilderness, but i do want to see very large scale rewilding. i th...

Because they can grow from one year to the next, they're likely to be far more resilient to environmental shocks. pretty much a decade ago, you wrote a book, feral, which recommended the large scale rewilding of the countryside. you argued, in britain, for example, that thousands of years ago, a whole host of large wild animals, including lions, bison, roamed the land. and you appeared to suggest that if we could only stop farming much of this land and leave it wild, we could expect, in the long run, obviously with careful management, some of these large mammals to reappear, a new wilderness t...