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Wild Landscapes what’s to be gained from letting nature take its course?

Wild Landscapes what’s to be gained from letting nature take its course?. Steve Carver University of Leeds. Wild land and wild nature Natural Beauty = Wildlife Landscapes change Physical Social Economic Opportunities for re-wilding selected areas?. NPPG14 & SNH

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Wild Landscapes what’s to be gained from letting nature take its course?

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  1. Wild Landscapes what’s to be gained from letting nature take its course? Steve Carver University of Leeds

  2. Wild land and wild nature • Natural Beauty = Wildlife • Landscapes change • Physical • Social • Economic • Opportunities for re-wilding selected areas?

  3. NPPG14 & SNH • “uninhabited and often relatively inaccessible countryside where the influence of human activity on the character and quality of the environment has been minimal.” • NTS • “Wild land in Scotland is relatively remote and inaccessible, not noticeably affected by contemporary human activity, and offers high-quality opportunities to escape from the pressures of everyday living and find physical and spiritual refreshment”

  4. “a number of experimental schemes on a limited scale should be set up in National Parks where farming is withdrawn entirely and the natural succession of vegetation is allowed to take its course” (Recommendation 6.3, Edwards, 1991)

  5. Semi-natural areas, which appear natural but are in fact influenced by management for agriculture or forestry. • Near-natural areas, where the land is totally divorced from agricultural or forestry use – in which natural processes are encouraged to maintain the diversity of habitats, and vegetation is free to vary naturally with variations in the physical environment. (After CNP, 1998, p.3)

  6. Gains – a multiple benefit model • Recreation – formal and informal • Landscape – aesthetics • Habitat and wildlife • Water protection and flood mitigation • Forestry and extensive agriculture • Public health • Climate change, CO2, etc.

  7. Losses? • Traditional way of life • Social structures and community • Economies

  8. Goals: • “Wild(er)ness and Plenty” Fraser-Darling

  9. “Wild by Design” highlights the challenge…“the commitment to leave minimal intervention areas on a much larger scale (landscapes of thousands of hectares) and over much longer periods (hundreds of years)” (CNP, 1998, p.5). • Integrating re-wilding with farming • Packaging and marketing • Developing a workable and realistic strategy

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