The Wilder Blean Project will introduce large herbivores onto the site which include European Bison as the headline act, along with Long Horn Cattle and Ponies and Iron Age Pigs. This experiment is happening a mile or two away from where I live in a place I know really well, which is great as I am interested in the whole topic of rewilding or wilding whatever phrase you use. I have read about it and even visited the Knepp Wildland a pioneer rewilding project in West Sussex which has been established for perhaps 15-20 years.
But here’s the thing, me and Fred my Irish Terrier will have to find pastures new to run free off the lead. So, you see it is goodbye to our early morning woodland explorations together in Thornden Woods. This journal will record something of our final walks together during the lead in period to these animals being introduced.
