Or, to put it another way, that equates to seeing London’s Hyde Park or three-quarters of Monaco go up in smoke. Every wildfire is different but the hottest topic in the rewilding debate concerns the management of our moorland. With 30 years of gamekeeping behind him, moorlands expert Richard Bailey points to an online video showing a keeper placing a Mars bar underneath a patch of moorland heather. ‘Rewilding means different things to different people but restoring and protecting natural processes in the right places can have real conservation benefits,’ a spokesman tells me. He adds that the RSPB does provide firebreaks: ‘We take the risk of wildfire exceptionally seriously across all our reserves.’