Self-willed land - advocacy for wild land & nature

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ARTICLES Complete list of articles WILDLAND Wildland Reports and Presentations, Work Reports & Designs WILD Europe Wildland Books Wildland Filmography What is Wildland? Ancient Woodland ssenredliW Conservation Speak Heathland MADNESS Treeless Forests PERMACULTURE Learn about Permaculture	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 Wildwood once covered much of Britain, but early farmers destroyed that woodland. We also lost wolves, lynx, bear, wild boar and beaver, and the range of wildcat, polecat and pine marten is severely reduced. Nowhere has been left untouched by people in the humanization of our land, leaving behind a simplified ecology that has lost most of its wild heritage. Wilderness and wildland should be important to us. If you wish to learn more about this, read some of the articles about: the 5,000 years in which we have shaped and modified our land through farming the continuing threat to wildness from SSSI designation and the target driven and funded approach to nature conservation 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 wild character, and thus the limits to human intervention. Mark Fisher - mark.fisher@self-willed-land.org.uk wild nature, wildland, wildwood, rewilding, advocacy for wild land and nature, self-willed land, ecological processes, wilderness The latest articles are:
Travelogue - ten weeks in North America in 2003	Wild trees and natural woods, April 2013 NEW	The neoliberalisation of nature conservation, Feb 2013 ADDENDUM - Mar 2013	Protected areas in Europe – Natura 2000 versus national protected areas, Jan 2013
SELF-WILLED LAND the Manifesto	Saying goodbye to ash, Dec 2012 ADDENDUM - Jan 2013	The natural aspect - Epping Forest and Rock Creek Park, Nov 2012	The New Enclosures, Sept 2012
	Last updated 12 April 2013