Creating wild stepping stones in the landscape
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The Somerset Levels were once England's Danube Delta. From pelicans to lynx, beavers to sturgeons, it would have teemed with wildlife, much of it now gone. Somerset Wildlands is aimed at restoring some of that lost wildlife and wildness through a process of distributed rewilding. The Levels may never be what they were, but we have an opportunity to create a spectacular wildlife core for the South-West of England and beyond.
We want to show that rewilding is for everyone, at large and small scales. To that end Somerset Wildlands is using a process of distributed rewilding, which we are calling ‘stepping stones’. This will seek to develop a network of sites throughout the Levels – small (<10 acres) or large (>100 acres). Some will be owned by the charity, others by affiliates who share our aims.
Each of these will be managed in as light-touch a way as is possible using tools such as passive rewilding (eg leaving land alone), natural regeneration and succession, light grazing, re-wetting etc. Rather than one big rewilded estate, over time this will create numerous ‘islands of wildness’ - providing refuges and diversity within the overall landscape, and complimenting the existing nature reserves.
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