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20 October 2025
The Rise of Rewilding in the UK: How Boothby Wildland and LettsSafari Are Helping Nature Bounce Back

A new era for rewilding in Britain Across the UK, rewilding and nature restoration projects are reshaping how we think about land, wildlife and climate action. The latest story making headlines is the Boothby Wildland project in Lincolnshire - a bold 600-hectare rewilding experiment that’s transforming intensively farmed fields into thriving wild landscapes. From beavers […]

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15 October 2025
Why Single-Species Conservation Fails: The Case of Britain’s Vanishing Curlews

The curlew – with its haunting call and sweeping bill – has declined by 60% in the UK over the past 25 years. Conservationists are now debating whether culling foxes, which prey on curlew eggs and chicks, could be the bird’s last hope. But focusing on predators alone is a sticking-plaster solution. The real drivers […]

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10 October 2025
Rewild Your Outdoor Space in 25 Steps

A practical 25 step rewilding programme inspired by LettsSafari’s smaller-scale rewilding approach. You don’t need hundreds of acres to make a difference for nature. In fact, most of the world’s biodiversity now lives alongside us — in gardens, parks, schoolyards, allotments, and road verges. That means ordinary people, not just landowners or governments, hold the […]

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6 October 2025
Glasgow’s Graceful Guardian: The Argyle Street Ash Wins UK Tree of the Year

A tree older than the lightbulb In the very heart of Glasgow, where trams once rattled and Teslas now glide, a living sentinel has stood for 170 years. The Argyle Street ash , described in 1951 by local historian James Cowan as “quite the most graceful ash I have seen” , has witnessed the city’s […]

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29 September 2025
England’s New Ban on Deep-Peat Burning: What It Means & How LettsSafari Can Help

The UK government has just announced a ban on burning deep peatland across England. It’s a milestone moment: peatlands are some of the most important landscapes we have and for too long they’ve been treated as expendable. Peat is often called England’s “Amazon rainforest” - a natural storehouse of carbon, water and life. It forms […]

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23 September 2025
Transforming Cities: The Urban Rewilding Enthusiast's Journey

At LettsSafari, we know that rewilding doesn’t just belong in vast countryside estates or protected reserves. It can - and must - take root in our cities. That’s where the Urban Rewilder comes in. The Urban Rewilder is passionate about turning concrete corners into green havens. They see the potential in a neglected verge, a […]

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16 September 2025
Golden Eagles: Poised to Return to England. And LettsSafari Is Ready to Soar.

England’s skies may soon see the return of one of the most iconic symbols of wilderness: the golden eagle. Absent from our landscapes for more than 150 years, these majestic raptors could be reintroduced thanks to a landmark feasibility study by Forestry England. The study confirms that northern England has enough suitable habitats and prey […]

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8 September 2025
Bringing Back the Storks: A Rewilding Revival in London

Imagine walking through a London park and spotting the elegant silhouette of a white stork soaring above. Once extinct in Britain, this iconic bird could soon return to the capital’s skies thanks to a bold new rewilding initiative. Earlier this week, Citizen Zoo announced a groundbreaking project to explore the reintroduction of white storks to London […]

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2 September 2025
Lockleaze’s Green Revolution: How One Bristol Community is Rewilding the Urban Wild

In the heart of Bristol, a quiet revolution is unfolding. Not the loud kind of protest or policy change but a gentle, powerful act of community-led rewilding. The residents of Lockleaze, a suburb just north of the city centre, are breathing new life into forgotten spaces. Their initiative, Really Wild Lockleaze , is transforming the […]

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26 August 2025
Wild London Returns: Beavers, Meadows & Urban Resilience

What do beavers, water voles and “wiggly” rivers have in common? They’re all making a comeback right in the heart of London. In a powerful shift from concrete to canopy, a series of ambitious urban rewilding projects are transforming the capital into a haven for wildlife and people alike. The story begins at Paradise Fields […]

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Collective Action. Powerful Impact
LettsSafari Logo, a grey Letts with an orange Safari.
Collective Action. Powerful Impact