Interesting article in The Observer by Robert Macfarlane (doesn't seem to be in the online edition).The Dutch are way ahead of this country in re-wilding, allocating 17% of a smaller country to an imaginative project. Here in Britain the powers that be are very reluctant to go beyond the farmed and fenced approach to all our countryside, more's the pity. But there are signs that in some areas people are beginning to understand a more imaginative approach (advocated by Friends of Blacka Moor and others). Ennerdale in the Lake District has been set aside for a re-wilding project and as the article says, part of the excitement is in not knowing for sure how it will look in 20 years or 50 years time.
Pity the countryside management people in the Sheffield and Peak District region cannot match this level of imagination.
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