ABSTRACT
The global conservation community is lobbying hard to get governments to think at the landscape scale and support large scale habitat restoration through the creation of transnational habitat networks based around the cores, corridors and carnivores model. While the model of cores, corridors and carnivores is the backbone of (re)wilding at the whole landscape scale, exactly how it is achieved can vary. In practice, complete abandonment of land to natural forces is rare, and when it does happen the rewilding is often unintentional such as in disaster zones or where a land use is completely withdrawn without replacement. Outside of wilderness areas such landscapes are few and far between and where they do exist, they do so largely by some accident of fate. Many of the UK's protected areas show the makings of good connectivity, whereas others do not, such as the 'Black Hole' of the Midlands area.
