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  • We've been so incredibly bowled over by how many people are excited to try to get their place for this this job.

  • There are only two rolls out there, and we've had hundreds and hundreds of applications.

  • If your resume includes experience with animals, knowledge of their behavior on permission to work in the UK, then you could be a good candidate to become one of England's first ever bison rangers.

  • The European bison, continent's largest land mammal, is being reintroduced more than 15,000 years after its ancestors roamed Britain.

  • Stan Smith, landscapes manager at Kent Wildlife Trust, has Bean sifting through applications.

  • So we're hiring for two bison rangers.

  • These will be the first bison rangers in the UK, probably ever.

  • We've never had European bison here in the past, so this will be of really exciting experience for new People were looking for people who really sort of empathetic with animals who really kind of understand animal behavior.

  • But we're not expecting people to have ever worked with bison before, because you can't until now.

  • Eso these people will be involved in all the kind of day to day care of the bison, but very much hands off.

  • We want these animals to be kept as wild as possible.

  • So it's a case of monitoring these animals for a distance.

  • Andi making sure that they're healthy and happy and they're doing the right jobs in the environment.

  • The bison will come from the Netherlands, Romania or Poland on will be kept in a near wild state in a fenced area of the 500 hectare site in the southern county of Kent.

  • They'll help manage the woodland by their unique ability to fell trees by rubbing up against them and eating the bark, creating space for other species to thrive.

  • This is all part of our wilder Belene project.

  • The bison are just one element of it, that they are sort of ecosystem engineers.

  • They can manage habitats in a way that no other animal can.

  • But it also be in our woodland with other species such as export ponies, longhorn cows on also iron age pigs like a domesticated kind of world war kind of thing.

  • On.

  • This is all about trying to find nature based solutions to solve the biodiversity crisis that we currently face.

  • We one of the big problems we have in this country is.

  • We're not very able to manage our woodland sustainably.

  • It takes a lot of manpower to be able to manage woodlands in a way that's that's useful wildlife.

  • But bison could do that just by the way they behave.

  • Size off the bloom reserve that we're looking to bring the European bison to is approximately about 500 hectares on.

  • The bison will have access to part of that in an enclosed area.

  • And the reason we're bringing sort of semi wild vice and in for this project is because it's very different to what you see behind me here with the European bison that are in captivity here in Wildwood.

  • They've become sort of very habituated to people on do sort of are fairly reliant on the supplementary feeding or food that is offered to them.

We've been so incredibly bowled over by how many people are excited to try to get their place for this this job.

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