The UK’s first wild bison in millennia have been joined by iron-age pigs, Exmoor ponies and longhorn cattle because the rewilding undertaking strikes ahead in making a wealthy and pure new habitat. The Wilder Blean undertaking in Kent is deploying the animals to duplicate the roles performed by mega-herbivores when bison, aurochs and wild horses
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Until the final male golden eagle died in 2015, Haweswater, on the rugged north-eastern fringe of the Lake District, was England’s remaining refuge for the chook of prey. “Even now, every time I am going up Riggindale, it looks like one thing is lacking,” says Spike Webb, a long-serving RSPB warden at its Haweswater website.