…bison, beaver, brown bear, wolf and several species of vulture. Apart from the member sites where natural grazing and predation take place, also included are several rewilding areas in which…

…Estonia the natural process of grazing might be restored and take these areas one step closer to a more true wilderness. Western Europe, with its growing numbers of wild herbivores,…

They are breeding rabbits for reintroduction and rock pigeons too, and have started with wild living horses of an ancient Portuguese race, to see the effect on the landscape. We…

…will also increase riverside meadow areas, which should boost local grazing,” he continues. “Last but not least, better natural channelisation will reduce the flooding of agricultural land and a local…

…to become available for natural grazing in the rewilding areas. This mechanism (formerly called the European Herd Fund) has been successful in The Netherlands, Latvia and Bulgaria and is now…

…a natural grazing pilot and exploration of possible rewilding enterprises in the area. This provided some small results like the release of two bison in December 2014, but all in…

…also been released into these areas in Western Iberia f or another reason: to bring back the natural grazing regime in the two reserves , which they now carry out…

…– organisms that have a disproportionately large effect on their natural environment relative to their abundance. As such, the reintroduction of European bison and wild forest reindeer in Sweden, coupled…

…mammoth and rhino) reduced effectiveness of the grazing and browsing pressure that would otherwise suppress tree establishment. Then, in the Late Holocene, but still before industrial farming, humans dominated the…

…from Dadia National Park in northern Greece often visit Bulgaria’s Rhodope Mountains foraging for food, but natural recolonisation is unlikely due to limited population size. Svetoslav Spasov What is the…