Thanks for this essay, I'm a big supporter of rewilding Britain myself (one of the first things I wrote about on this platform:

https://medium.com/being-known/rewilding-dreams-81147c4b5a6f?sk=e09a02fc88c1440176142498b4a1a55e

You might like this book, which was short-listed for the Wainwright Prize last year:

https://wainwrightprize.com/nominee/black-ops-and-beaver-bombing/