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a wood pasture landscape

Understanding how our landscape once looked, how our ecology evolved, informs how we can conserve for nature in the future.

It is not only Frans Vera who sees the primal landscape of Europe as more open and diverse. Other scientists in the UK have reached the same conclusion from other directions.

What they envisage is a dynamic wood pasture landscape system, characterised by large areas of grazed savanna and thorny scrub with groves and open grown trees.