A FEW weekends ago, I hosted the first of our new Discovery Tour Weekenders at Rewilding Coombeshead, a former farm tucked away in the UK’s Devon countryside. Owned and run by maverick conservationist Derek Gow, the site has an extensively rewilded area filled with Eurasian beavers, water buffalo, wild boar and Exmoor ponies, as well as an animal reintroduction and breeding programme for water voles, white storks, wildcats…
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