Rebirding: Winner of the Wainwright Prize for Writing on Global Conservation: Restoring Britain's Wildlife

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Rebirding: Winner of the Wainwright Prize for Writing on Global Conservation: Restoring Britain's Wildlife

Rebirding: Winner of the Wainwright Prize for Writing on Global Conservation: Restoring Britain's Wildlife

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Some are perfectly feasible – with environmental and green narratives rising to prominence more and more in society, the rewilding of our back gardens and parks is surely realistic. After baby is floating and has settled, you bring the top of baby’s head against your abdomen and place your free hand on their forehead. Another Cambridge-based swift enthusiast, retired salesman John Stimpson, celebrated his 80th birthday in January by completing his goal of building 30,000 swift boxes in the garage attached to his bungalow in Ely which he sells to people wanting to assist. Coming at the subject from a desire to see a sizable increase in the number of species in and around our landscapes is laudable, birds are his passion after all. MacDonald's thesis is that rather than concentrating on the birds themselves, we should concentrate on allowing the landscapes they need to survive to develop and thrive.

Wilding is an exception because the solution for that site is ‘keep giving us public money and we’ll keep delivering wildlife’ which is at least clear.Another popular method of rebirthing involves submerging yourself in a bathtub or hot tub and using a breathing device such as a snorkel to stay underwater. Instead, one day she clambered up to the loft and saw the remains of an old swift nesting spot, but one which had been sealed up by the previous homeowner using expanding foam. That said, we need to fix our planet and the habitats we’ve slowly destroyed over time, so why not go all-in with the restoration of it? It was the Victorians and Edwardians, with their enthusiasms for “improvement”, who routed the last of the raptors and other “undesirable” wild creatures. One doesn’t need to go further than social media to see this concept on a micro-level: the angst at a recently trimmed roadside margin or roundabout, the frustration of anti-birding netting on hedges and so on.

Any digging into the comparative economies of, say, grouse shooting as opposed to nature watching, in similar areas, then yielded the expected result that nature fuels asection in the economy worth billions each year – and that’s even before we’ve reinstated true national parks and many of our lost charismatic animals.Reintroductions of red kites and white-tailed eagles following their extermination have redressed the balance to some extent, and Macdonald even dares to dream of Dalmatian pelicans soaring again in Cambridgeshire skies.

The key to bringing back wildlife of all shapes and sizes is to bring back the large mammals and predators to our landscapes and just let them get on with it. The winner for the much-loved Wainwright Prize for UK Nature Writing has been announced at a virtual awards ceremony on September 8 th. Note: I have an Advanced Review Copy so I cannot easily comment on the look and feel of the finished article – but I’ve read the words]. Quite rightly, Benedict Macdonald acknowledges that we face a double whammy of biodiversity loss and the climate crisis, which threatens not just Britain’s birds but also our own existence on this planet.

I am privileged to play a small part in this picture, helping guide their ambitions to deliver the maximum benefits for both people and nature. Places are named, species are named and the experience of other European countries is drawn on to illustrate what rewilding could do for our wildlife. Silent Spring is as relevant today as it was when American environmentalist Rachel Carson first published her seminal work 60 years ago.

Travelling abroad — especially to national parks in eastern Europe — makes you realise quite how robbed and silent our own country is. She has dug a small pond, sown a mini-meadow on the lawn with wildflower species including cowslips, field scabious, and knapweed, and planted honeysuckle and climbing roses which snake up her home.There are various ways of doing this and reintroduction have been successful, in particular with kites and the great bustard.



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