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- verb Present participle of
rewild .
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The word "rewilding" became an essential part of talk among conservationists in the late 1990s when two well-known conservation biologists, Michael Soulé and Reed Noss, wrote a now classic paper called "Rewilding and biodiversity: Complementary Goals for Continental Conservation."
Marc Bekoff: Rewilding Our Hearts: Maintaining Hope and Faith in Trying Times Marc Bekoff 2011
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The word "rewilding" became an essential part of talk among conservationists in the late 1990s when two well-known conservation biologists, Michael Soulé and Reed Noss, wrote a now classic paper called "Rewilding and biodiversity: Complementary Goals for Continental Conservation."
Marc Bekoff: Rewilding Our Hearts: Maintaining Hope and Faith in Trying Times Marc Bekoff 2011
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The word "rewilding" became an essential part of talk among conservationists in the late 1990s when two well-known conservation biologists, Michael Soulé and Reed Noss, wrote a now classic paper called "Rewilding and biodiversity: Complementary Goals for Continental Conservation."
Marc Bekoff: Rewilding Our Hearts: Maintaining Hope and Faith in Trying Times Marc Bekoff 2011
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Looks like the rewilding is proceeding beyond expevctations.
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Looks like the rewilding is proceeding beyond expevctations.
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And I found just what I was looking for when I began to read about what are called rewilding projects.
Marc Bekoff: Rewilding Our Hearts: Maintaining Hope and Faith in Trying Times Marc Bekoff 2011
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And I found just what I was looking for when I began to read about what are called rewilding projects.
Marc Bekoff: Rewilding Our Hearts: Maintaining Hope and Faith in Trying Times Marc Bekoff 2011
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And I found just what I was looking for when I began to read about what are called rewilding projects.
Marc Bekoff: Rewilding Our Hearts: Maintaining Hope and Faith in Trying Times Marc Bekoff 2011
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Serious debates have begun over what were once considered fringe ideas, such as dumping iron into the ocean to promote algal blooms that suck up carbon dioxide or even North American "rewilding" - the reintroduction of large mammals, such as cheetahs and camels, that disappeared from the continent about 13,000 years ago.
Gyre.org - Tracking the Next Military and Technological Revolutions 2009
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Some of England's most endangered species could be brought back from the brink of extinction as the result of a year-long government wildlife review to be launched tomorrow, which will focus on "rewilding" - returning land to its natural state - and extending habitats.
European Tribune 2009
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Some conservation groups and landowners have increasingly advocated for rewilding, in which large, contiguous areas of land are taken out of farming.
Current conservation policies risk accelerating biodiversity loss Ian Bateman 2023
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As the world burns and biodiversity hits a crisis point, rewilding — the process of letting nature restore itself — can feel like a hopeful refuge.
The secret movement bringing Europe’s wildlife back from the brink Isobel Cockerell 2023
mercy commented on the word rewilding
a process by which the domestication of people is undone
July 17, 2008
bilby commented on the word rewilding
"Greene and a number of other highly eminent ecologists and conservationists have authored a paper, published in the latest issue of Nature (Vol. 436, No. 7053), advocating the establishment of vast ecological history parks with large mammals, mostly from Africa, that are close relatives or counterparts to extinct Pleistocene-period animals that once roamed the Great Plains. The plan, which is called Pleistocene rewilding and is intended to be a proactive approach to conservation, would help revitalize ecosystems that have been compromised by the extinction of many of the continent's large mammals, many of them predators."
- Krishna Ramanujan, Cornell conservationists propose allowing wild animals to roam parts of North America, cornell.edu, 17 August 2005.
September 7, 2009
bourbonmots commented on the word rewilding
Europeans ate their way through the island nation of Mauritius, most famously eliminating the dodo bird by 1700. Less well known was their effect on the Mauritian island now known as Ile aux Aigrettes, where they exterminated giant skinks and tortoises and logged the native ebony trees for firewood.
In 1965 the largely denuded 25 hectares of the island were declared a nature reserve. But even in the absence of logging, the slow-growing ebony forests failed to thrive. Why? Because they had lost the animals that ate their fruit and dispersed their seeds. So in 2000 scientists relocated four giant tortoises from the nearby Aldabra atoll in the Seychelles, and by 2009 a total of 19 such introduced tortoises roamed the island, eating the large fruits and leaving behind more than 500 dense patches of seedlings....For this tiny island, at least, rewilding appears to have worked. And that holds out hope for other restoration ecology projects in the midst of the sixth mass extinction in the earth’s history.
– Scientific American, July 2011, p. 16
August 24, 2011