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IRISH METALHEAD TURNS HIS ANCESTRAL ESTATE INTO MODEL OF REWILDING: IT NATURALLY
GREW INTO BIODIVERSE EDEN
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Aug 17, 2021
@Randal Plunkett, Twitter (L)/Dunsany Nature Reserve
There’s a lot of talk about rewilding in Europe, where so much wild country has
been eliminated over the last 1,000 years, but it usually comes from radical
farmers, not death metal musician-filmmakers.
That’s exactly who Randal Plunkett is: a living, working testament to the power
of humanity to create change for a better future.
In the face of his lifestyle (as a steak-eating body-building, death metalhead)
and under the weight of his heritage (as the 21st Baron of Dunsany Castle in
Ireland’s County Meath) Randal decided to take action to restore the dwindling
number of truly wild spaces on the Emerald Isle by converting his entire
650-hectare (1,600-acre) estate into Ireland’s most ambitious rewilding project.
First installed in Dunsany Castle in 1402, the Plunkett family is one of
Ireland’s oldest clans of blue-bloods. A Plunkett was canonized after being
executed by the Church of England in the 17th century, and another ancestor,
Horace Plunkett, advocated on behalf of rural development and farming
innovations during the early 20th century.
“I’ve never been a country bumpkin,” Randall told The Guardian. “I saw it as a
burden, a life of servitude.”
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Now though, concerns about the climate crisis and his country’s native ecosystem
destruction has led him to turn his estate over to nature, letting grasses grow
tall, and animals to run wild—a clean break from his ancestor Horace’s ideas of
agriculture.
GREEN IN NATURE AND NAME
Dunsany Nature Reserve
“The reserve is pretty much left untouched, with natural processes left to
reshape the landscape,” Randall, officially ‘Lord Dunsany,’ told the European
Rewilding Network (ERN), which he recently joined. “There’s no drainage, and
areas of grassland are left to be grazed by wild animals, such as deer.”
“Otters have returned—the first time the species has been seen on the estate in
my lifetime. We have pine martens, stoats, hedgehogs, foxes, badgers and barn
owls. Red kite and snipe have returned. We have seen a big increase in
insects—with a massive surge in butterflies—and we now see many different bat
species. Even endangered Irish species such as corncrakes have come back. Nature
really is flourishing,” he added.
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With several small streams meandering through what is mostly unforested land,
there’s room for natural processes to stretch out and create that marvelous
chaos most ecosystems need to make substantial, resilient food webs and habitat.
Lord Dunsany doesn’t have much interest in opening the estate up to much more
than small tour groups, but as a filmmaker, he does allow filming crews on to
shoot, most recently for his own independent film The Green Sea, named for that
most stunning shade of green that covers so much of Ireland, not least of which,
his family estate.
Private estates like those owned by historically royal families are often some
of Europe’s best places to experiment with rewilding.
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ERN details how places like Bunloit and Glenfeshie Estates in Scotland, and Ken
Hill and Knepp Estates elsewhere, are often the only ones which have the large
tracks of countryside that aren’t already deeply agricultural necessary to give
rewilding a shot.
As GNN reported last year, Knepp is a success story—a broke descendant of lords
who couldn’t farm his land anymore turned it into an English wildland safari,
creating one of England’s most biodiverse areas and wiping out his debts at the
same time.
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