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00:00Okay, my name is Derek Gow. I am standing in front of a breeding flock of white storks,
00:05which are a species that were hunted to extinction in Britain approximately 500 years ago. And
00:10these birds are here alongside a lot of other creatures, both birds, mammals, some insects.
00:16As part of a project we're running to rewild our farm. We have about 350 to 400 acres here
00:23where we have some areas of land elsewhere and the landscape around us. And the idea
00:28is that we just, you know, we take this land and we start to manage it in a different way,
00:34to create an environment where we have large flocks of goldfinches in the summertime, where
00:38our pastures are full of wildflowers, where, you know, the sound of the summer is the buzzing
00:43of the insects and the singing of the grasshoppers and crickets. And we're doing this because
00:48I believe very, very firmly that, you know, in a landscape which is increasingly devoid
00:54of life, we need to start to look at how we take the unproductive agricultural land
00:59out and return it to nature. We can't live on this planet or continue our existence if
01:05there are no insects. And the insects, of course, support all other manner of different
01:10life species. So what we're trying to do is take this land, put it to one side and regenerate
01:16living space for other creatures.