Self-willed land - advocacy for wild land & nature

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ARTICLES Self-Willed Land Farming and Food Permaculture (Full list of articles) Your favourite articles LEARN about Permaculture DESIGNS, Reports and Presentations, & Research WILDLAND Wildland Bibliography Wildland Filmography NEW Wildland Information What is Wildland? KEEPERS OF TIME - a policy for England's Ancient Woodland Wildland Network News ssenredliW Conservation Speak NEW Treeless Forests Heroes and Villains	True wilderness IS A LAND THAT HAS SUPREME NATURALNESS AND IS FREE OF ANY HUMAN CONTROL It is a self-willed land because plants and animals can thrive there, in their own unfettered communities. We have no true wilderness in Britain today. Natural woodland once covered over 70% of our land, but farming has displaced all that wildwood. Nowhere has been left untouched by people and their farming. Our hills and mountains are over-grazed, and our rivers and marshes constrained. We manage every landscape without leaving anything to natural forces. Wilderness and wildland should be important to us, just as it is in the South American rainforests, the Rocky Mountains in North America, or in the wildernesses of Australasia and South Africa. If you wish to learn more about this, then read some of the articles on this website. The articles look at: the 5000 years in which we have shaped our landscapes through farming the threat to wildness from SSSI designation and the target driven approach to nature conservation how a Permaculture approach to land use can make a difference how giving land back to wild nature would make some of Britain's landscapes self-willed again (see the manifesto) Self-willed land for its own sake will only exist in Britain if land is held inalienably in the public good and that legislation exists to define its natural character, and thus the limits to human intervention. Mark Fisher - mark.fisher@self-willed-land.org.uk Permaculture Design, wild nature, wildland, wildwood, rewilding, advocacy for wild land and nature, self-willed land, wilderness The latest articles are:
Travelogue - ten weeks in North America	When we talk to trees, do they listen? Jun 08 NEW	Rewilding - the moral obligation for ecologial restoration, May 2008	Along the coast and under the sea - the outlook for marine protection, Apr 2008
SELF-WILLED LAND the Manifesto	High price for heath - Loxley and Wadsley Commons, Mar 2008 ADDENDUM -Nomansland Common - Oaks being felled to make way for grass & heather	Swineholes Wood - 'Too many trees being cut down', Feb 2008	Take three woodland wildflowers, Feb 2008
	Last updated 13 June 2008