Somerset Rewilding Project
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The Somerset Levels in the South West was once the UK’s Danube Delta, a vast wild wetland, teaming with life – from pelicans to beavers, sturgeon to wildcats. Somerset Wildlands’ aim is to return some of that life through a process of decentralised rewilding. By acquiring pieces of land large and small it will create lightly managed wild stepping-stones as refuges and corridors for nature.
So by the 3rd acquisition in my Funding Nature project I’ve provided Somerset Wildlands with a philanthropic loan to acquire a 12-acre field formerly grazed by sheep, and very close to an existing Somerset Wildlands wildlife stepping stone. Despite being small, the neighbouring site is already used by a host of wildlife including otters, great egrets, marsh harriers and grass snakes, and that wildlife now has another twelve-acre refuge to spread out to.
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