Section 6.a. "Smaller-Scale Rewilding: A Practical Guide to Restoring Nature in Your Own Space"

'The Importance of LettsSafari' - the latest section of LettsSafari's guide to smaller-scale rewilding.

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The Importance of LettsSafari

Throughout this guide, we’ve often mentioned LettsSafari - not just as an example, but as a pioneer and facilitator of the smaller-scale rewilding movement. So why does LettsSafari, as an organisation and concept, matter?

In this final section, we’ll summarise what LettsSafari offers to individuals and communities, why supporting such initiatives amplifies the impact of rewilding, and the vision of a global movement that LettsSafari and others are building - one garden, one park, one animal at a time.

LettsSafari is a multi-faceted platform. First, it’s a network of rewilding parks and projects. They have on-the-ground sites where they actively practice rewilding and test models for different scales. By visiting these parks online via LettsSafari+, people can see rewilding in action - essentially living demonstrations. For instance, subscribers get a “front row seat” via LettsSafari+ with immersive videos and online updates from the parks, which is both educational and inspiring.

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Secondly, LettsSafari provides expertise and guidance distilled from 15+ years of experience. They have developed practical models for various scales - small gardens, large gardens, small parks, and more - which means if you have a particular size plot, they likely have a template or advice on how to rewild it effectively. Through LettsSafari+, they share these insights (like the 10-step guides, plant recommendations, rewilding tools and immersive how-to's). In essence, they are doing the research and legwork so that the average person or community can rewild with confidence, armed with proven techniques.

Thirdly, LettsSafari offers a membership (LettsSafari+ and subscription) structure that makes rewilding accessible to all, even those who don’t have land to rewild themselves. For a small monthly fee (the price of a coffee, as they say), anyone can contribute to rewilding efforts - the money goes directly to creating new parks, planting trees and releasing animals.

This is a powerful model: it democratises conservation. You can be an urban apartment dweller but still know that through LettsSafari, you’ve “built” a part of a new wild park or given a home to an endangered wild animal. That emotional and ethical connection is valuable. In return, members get not only the content but the satisfaction of measurable impact: LettsSafari’s pledges like “for every 10 new subscribers we plant a tree a year, for every 100 we release an endangered animal” show a transparent conversion of support to action.

Additionally, LettsSafari runs special initiatives like LettsSafari+ Rewilding content (articles on cornerstone species like ragwort, insights into global small rewilding examples like Moyenne Island and Glasgow Botanic Gardens) which serve to educate and keep the community engaged. They also host events - tree planting days for members or volunteer opportunities. This creates a sense of community and direct involvement beyond just passive reading.

Safari being reinvented by LettsSafari?

They’ve effectively created a brand around “safari parks” - but not the old concept of safari (zoo-like), rather a new kind where the wilderness is the attraction and climate action is the mission. LettsSafari uses friendly language and imagery (the word “safari” evokes adventure, journey) to draw people in, making rewilding feel exciting rather than burdensome.

Why Supporting LettsSafari (and Similar Efforts) Matters:

• Scaling Up Impact: By supporting LettsSafari, individuals amplify their personal impact manyfold. Your backyard rewilding helps your local area, but your membership helps fund dozens of acres elsewhere that you alone might not have access to. LettsSafari pools resources to tackle larger projects that single individuals couldn’t (like acquiring land for parks, or coordinating nationwide campaigns). This collective action accelerates rewilding at a regional/national scale.

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• Expert-Backed Success: LettsSafari’s team has learned from trial and error since 2006. Supporting them means you are investing in proven success models. Instead of each person having to figure out how to rewild by themselves, LettsSafari provides a blueprint and support system. This increases the success rate of projects and ensures good practices spread. Essentially, they’ve “cracked the code” for small-scale rewilding and are sharing that knowledge.

• Renewable Nature / Climate Solution: LettsSafari frames rewilding as a key piece of tackling climate change - “renewable nature” as they call it. By supporting them, you’re directly contributing to climate mitigation (through carbon capture in soils/trees) and biodiversity recovery. It’s a tangible way to do something about big problems, which many people otherwise feel helpless about. As they remind, if enough of us do it, we can help fix climate issues. LettsSafari basically gives a channel for turning eco-anxiety into action. They highlight outcomes like tonnes of CO₂ sequestered, thousands of trees planted – showing supporters the real difference made.

• Creating a Movement: LettsSafari emphasises community - “Collective Action. Powerful Impact” is one of their taglines. By being part of it, you’re not alone. There’s motivation and encouragement in numbers. It starts to normalise rewilding behaviour. And supporting LettsSafari means you support their outreach to new audiences (companies, cities, other countries). They actively try to spread the movement (e.g., their mention of possibly popping up in other countries to share the approach. The more people back them, the louder and farther-reaching the movement becomes.

• Innovation and Projects: LettsSafari isn’t static; they innovate (like those Wildlife Biodomes, or digital engagement tools). By funding them, you facilitate further innovation in conservation tech and methods that can be game-changers beyond their own projects. It’s akin to supporting a conservation incubator - they try novel ideas at Mamhead Park South or in the digital space, and if successful, those can be replicated globally.

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• Leveraging Media and Storytelling: LettsSafari produces stories, videos, and spotlights on new rewilding projects that not only inform members but can influence public discourse in favour of rewilding. By supporting them, you help these positive stories reach more people, swaying public opinion and potentially policy. The narrative of “smaller-scale rewilding can save biodiversity” counters the doom-and-gloom narrative with practical hope, and that’s powerful.

• Ensuring Longevity: Many small projects fail when initial enthusiasm wanes or funding dries. LettsSafari’s membership model provides a steady stream (each month, funds for maintenance/new work). That ensures the projects you care about persist long-term (trees get aftercare, habitats remain protected, wildlife is managed). It also allows long-term planning - e.g., they can commit to releasing an animal every year for every 100 subscribers, meaning sustained reintroductions, not one-off. To truly rewild landscapes over decades, this kind of continuity is crucial.

• Building public safari parks: When LettsSafari gathers enough traction and support they are committed to building 500+ acre national safari parks, initially in the UK, fully open to the public. They have the plan, the model, the technology and techniques, and a growing audience - and most importantly they have the brand and will to do it. The more we can share LettsSafari with our friends and colleagues, the sooner it might happen.

LettsSafari is just a few years old and yet it has come a long way. They are only at the beginning, but are full of hope and fully believe that smaller-scale rewilding, done right, has almost limitless potential.

Section 6.b. coming next week: ‘The Vision of a Global Movement’.

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