At a fence line on the Beara Peninsula, writer and rewilding advocate Eoghan Daltun finds a parable for an entire nation: on one side, land stripped bare by grazing; on the other, a quiet riot of returning life. In his new book, Setting the Land Free, Daltun argues that this division is not fate but choice — a matter of policy, of economic interest, and of what a society decides to value. As the climate crisis moves from warning to lived reality, he places rewilding not in the register of idealism but of necessity, asking Ireland whether it can any longer afford the cost of its own inaction.