After a year of bison freely roaming Canterbury woodland, monitoring programme releases first year of findings 👉www.kentwildlifetrust.org.uk/...
Kent Wildlife Trust’s Ecological Evidence and Academic Partnerships Lead, Kora Ross explains: “With all the excitement that followed the bison release, it is only natural people want to now know how the herd are impacting the woodland, but we are far from being able to evidence that scientifically.
“We have seen the visible initial impacts they have had in trampling rhododendron, opening up paths through the woodland, dung beetle larvae appearing in their dung and fungi growing from it, but we need years more research to establish patterns in biodiversity that we can attribute to the bison.
“Over the next few years, the bison will have bridges installed to full access to 200 hectares of woodland, rather than the 50 they are currently roaming, and the grazing animals will be placed in with them and then we can start building a picture of how the woodland is adapting to these giant herbivores grazing, dustbathing and dispersing seeds around it.”
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