Picture a British landscape of farms, forests, meadows, gardens. It's beautiful and orderly. There's a "deeply rooted cultural assumption that nature, properly handled, should be visually orderly."
Britain has no genuine wilderness remaining. Every acre is owned. Even forests are managed, and there's a growing cost to it. Some are willing to give up that management to an animal that can accomplish some of their goals for the forests naturally.
European bison were native to the land until loss of habitat and hunting eliminated them 6,000 years ago. They're being brought back and given free range in some places. Bison do not produce a tidy woodland. They make a messy, complex one, but it's a healthy ecosystem.
Human management can't sustain or replicate what these animals do. They call it "re-wilding."
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