Derek Gow has been an advocate of rewilding for many years. He has travelled widely to view projects in Britian, Europe and more widely in the world to view projects and meet the practitioners who are returning land to nature. Derek is now engaged with a team of colleagues in a process to return over 300 acres of what was livestock farmland to nature. Over 60 ponds and scrapes have been excavated, 10,000 trees planted, 200 acres of green hay applied, subsoil banks shaped to face south and large log or rock piles installed.

Beavers have already been reintroduced along with greylag geese, water voles, harvest mice, northern pool frogs and glow worms to this recovering landscape. Exmoor ponies, water buffalo, belted and white Galloway cattle and iron age pigs are used for grazing and land shaping purposes throughout the area.