In general, European nature is managed and controlled to a huge extent. There is a belief that people need to manage nature, and we are perhaps afraid of what might happen if we don't.

Rewilding is about working with nature, not against it. It's about using nature's immense power to revitalise itself, supporting the restoration of natural processes so that they can breathe new life into ecosystems and enable them to function as they should.

A key principle of rewilding is acknowledging that nature may not need our continuous intervention, and that it can lead its own recovery.