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WILDLAND

NATURAL SCIENCE AND SPATIAL APPROACH OF REWILDING –evolution in meaning of rewilding in Wild Earth and The Wildlands Project UPDATED

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

No where 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 and learn how giving land back to wild nature would make some of Britain's landscapes self-willed again

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
natural vegetation, natural systems, natural processes, ecological function, trophic occupancy, wild nature, advocacy for wild land & nature, self-willed land, wilderness

WILD - is Willed, Will'd (or self-willed) in opposition to those (whether men or beasts) who are tamed or subdued (by reason or otherwise) to the will of others or of Societies - John Horne Tooke 1805

‘Wild’ is the participle past of ‘to will’; a ‘wild’ horse is a ‘willed’ or self-willed horse, one that has been never tamed or taught to submit its will to the will of another; and so with a man - Richard Chenevix Trench 1853

WILD, self-willed, violent, untamed, uncivilised, savage, desert - Walter Skeat 1888

Wilderness then means "self-willed-land" or "self-willed-place" with an emphasis upon its own intrinsic volition - Jay Vest 1985

A place is wild when its order is created according to its own principles of organization—when it is self-willed land - Jack Turner 1996

The latest articles are:

Travelogue - ten weeks in North America in 2003

Unfettered Evolution: A Cornerstone of Wildness, June 2023  NEW

Providing opportunities for formerly native species reintroductions, Mar 2023 Deciding not to destroy the world, Feb 2023

SELF-WILLED LAND
the Manifesto

Downgrading the protection of wolves in Europe, 12 December 2022 A wolf-shaped hole in Britain, Sept 2022 Requiem redux – it’s the ecology, stupid, May 2022

Last updated 16 June 2023 -New article with Kate McFarland on the critical need to to protect the autonomy of evolutionary processes for wild nature