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Japie Buckle (2025) A practical and holistic approach to rewilding thicket

Aim. Finding a holistic and practical approach to rewilding thicket successfully over the long term Location. The rewilding work that has been done on the Hive Ecosystems farms in the Somerset East district will be used as examples Activities. 1) Determine the historical reasons for the degraded condition of the land/thicket and address (remove) the degradation drivers before starting with restoration efforts. 2) Understand the ecological dynamics and processes to restore the local thicket by also considering the climate. 3) Start with the improvement of the soil health and hydrology of the area, reduce water runoff and control erosion processes, planting of indigenous plants in-field to speed-up succession and increase vegetation cover, reduce herbivory in the beginning and do not introduce large herbivores and large numbers of game and/or extralimital game in highly degraded thicket. 4) Once the degraded thicket has recovered sufficiently to sustain a higher carrying capacity of herbivores, introduction of the correct species can be considered. Main Conclusions. Understand your local thicket in terms of climate, vegetation type (species composition) and how, what and when degradation took place on your site. Address the degradation drivers first. Restoration/rewilding can be expensive, so think holistically and practically on how to help the system recover by starting with the basic ecological drivers like soil health and vegetation cover. Management Implications. Rewilding is expensive, and a good knowledge of the local thicket restoration dynamics is needed before decisions on the rewilding methodology are made. Consult with restoration practitioners who have already learned through their mistakes: they can tell you what the most logical (use “common sense”) site-specific interventions are that can be used for your situation.