Biography

Dylan Walker is an ecologist and founder of Wilderlife.

During his fun and interactive talks and walks Dylan shows us how to rewild the places we call home by channelling the wild instincts of beaver, boar, bear and more! With thought provoking insights on how these large animals engineered our landscapes and practical advice for you to take away with you, a walk in the woods may never seem the same again!

Critical to the success of rewilding is the reintroduction of animals that we have lost from our wild places! We are finally realising that when we killed off the last wolf, bear, wild boar, elephant, and beaver in this country (yes, they all thrived here once), we killed far more than the animals themselves! This is because large animals that eat vegetation or hunt other animals effectively engineer the ecosystem as they wander around. They trample, chew, scare, rub, dig, build, and chop their way through the wild, creating new habitats that are the homes for ever more animals, plants, and fungi to thrive!

Although many of our mega species are currently extinct, that doesn’t mean we can’t rewild for nature in a way that would make a wolf proud! All we need to do is think like a lynx, gather sticks like a stork, lever timber like a beaver, and be as happy as a pig in; well, you know what; and nature will do the rest! Dylan will show you how, with practical examples to take home and try for yourself.