LettsSafari Books
The Definitive Guide to Small-Scale Rewilding
Discover the wild on your doorstep.
A visual journey into rewilding, wildlife and the power of giving nature room to thrive.
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Synopsis
Twenty years of rewilding, distilled into something you can act on this weekend.
At its centre is Mamhead Park South, the Letts family's own rewilding project on the edge of Exeter — a living case study of what happens when you give a small patch of land back to nature. Over ten years, the family has watched the park shift and settle, season by season, as habitats formed and wildlife returned. The photographs in this book capture the full range of that transformation — the beauty and variety of rewilding across landscapes, scales and focuses, from the smallest insect to the widest open ground.
Through the lens of Mamhead Park, the book shows how rewilding actually works. Mouths, feet, horns and hooves disturb and graze the ground in ways machinery can only imitate. Water slows, soil builds, plants find their own order, and species begin to regulate the land themselves. The images trace this journey not as theory, but as something visible and practical — a record of what happens when nature is given room to breathe.
The lessons are not confined to one park. Balconies, back gardens, verges and small fields can all become habitat if you know the first moves. The book applies what Mamhead Park has taught the Letts family to the everyday spaces most of us already have — showing what works and how to read the early signs of return in the insects, birds and mammals that use the ground you have given back.
For anyone who wants to bring a little more wild into everyday life.
- Start with what you have
- Balcony, back garden, verge or field — the first moves that turn any patch into habitat.
- Wildlife that follows
- The species that arrive first, what they need from you, and how to read the signs of return.
- Parks in practice
- Twenty years of smaller-scale rewilding — what worked, and the methods behind it.
Coming later this yearNext from LettsSafari Books
The Nature Reserve Next Door: How to Turn Any Garden Into a Wildlife Sanctuary
The garden rewilding book this movement has been waiting for. A rigorous, beautiful, practical handbook for anyone who tends an ordinary outside space and suspects it could become something wilder. Plant palettes by habitat and region, a month-by-month seasonal calendar, and the safari framing that turns your garden into a place of constant transformation.
Serialised first for LettsSafari+ subscribers — then published in full.
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