Beyond Conservation: A Wildland StrategyAfter decades of operating off-the-backfoot and protecting and conserving nature perceived as under threat, conservationists are becoming proactive and creative in the face of habitat loss, agricultural intensification and climate change. Beyond Conservation offers a revolutionary agenda for both managing existing wildlands in Britain and for expanding and connecting such lands. Central to this strategy is the imperative to 'rewild' or restore and repair damaged habitat and ecosystems, promote existing biodiversity and reintroduce vanished plant and animal species, while working to reconcile human needs and livelihoods and the needs of nature. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Chapter 1 The Wild Side of Natural | 8 |
Chapter 2 Coed Eryri | 15 |
Chapter 3 Caledon | 32 |
Chapter 4 Dartmoor | 49 |
Chapter 5 The Potential for Networks and Corridors | 56 |
Regeneration of the Core Vegetation | 74 |
The Herbivore Guild | 95 |
Chapter 10 The Land Inbetween | 183 |
Chapter 11 Targeted Habitat Creation | 206 |
Chapter 12 Stepping Stones to a Wilder Policy | 219 |
Chapter 13 Straight to the Heart | 236 |
Endnotes | 247 |
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Scientific Names of Species | 264 |
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agri-environment agriculture animals aurochs bear beaver biodiversity birch birds bison boar breeding Britain British buffer zones Caledonian Caledonian Forest carbon carnivores Carrifran cattle cent Community Forests conservation conservationists core areas corridors Countryside culling cultural Dartmoor deer numbers domestic stock ecological economic ECOS ecosystem Ennerdale environmental Europe European Exmoor Exmoor ponies extinct farmers farming field layer Forestry Commission funds Glen Affric global grassland grazing habitat healing heath herbivores herds Highlands human initiatives land landscape large areas large herbivores livestock lynx major mammals montane National Park National Trust natural processes nature reserves pasture pine pine marten planting ponies population post-glacial potential predators programme re-introduction re-wilding red deer Reforesting Scotland regeneration restoration rhino Rhinogydd river roe deer RSPB schemes scientific Scotland sheep Snowdonia species strategy subsidies tarpan Tir Gofal trees uplands vegetation vision Wales Western wild wilderness wildland wildlife wildwood wolf wolves Woodland Trust woods