About the project
Our aims and ambitions…
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Overview:
We are making a difference.
The UK is losing wildlife at an alarming rate, once common species such as water voles, swifts and curlews are rapidly fading others such as wildcats and lynx are long gone.
Farming has now ceased on 400 acres at Coombeshead. Our land is re-adjusting to a more wild state and supporting more and more wildlife as a result.
Careful reseeding and planting, combined with grazing and browsing by our exmoor ponies, short horn cattle and buffalo, combined with the rootling of our iron age pigs is leading to the recovery of our land.
Life is returning, we are already seeing this happen, beavers live in our streams, water voles flourish in our pools with a myriad of dragon flies, our meadows are alive with crickets, barn owls have returned to hunt over our land and this is just the start.
Our goal is to maximise the biodiversity and reintroduce lost species into our landscape.
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For years, Derek Gow worked his 400-acres in western England as a conventional sheep and cattle farm. But as both a farmer and conservationist, he knew that wasn’t right for nature. Now, he’s using his experience with British rewilding projects to return his land to what it once was: a healthy, biodiverse ecosystem.
Piece by piece, Derek Gow is reassembling the puzzle that was the wild landscape of Great Britain, and restoring hope along the way.
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Upcott Grange
Broadwoodwidger
Lifton Devon
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