SCOUT· 65%39m·2026-07-15·ScienceA vision for rewilding at Emblehope with Benedict MacDonald and Gil Martin
"Our aim is to re-create that sort of biosphere level peat land on a massive scale and unsurprisingly everything begins with water. And we need flowers and of course with flowers we’ll build insects so really straight and extraordinary complex botany on site and that’s gonna be really very difficult." "The aim in any…
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