Rewilding
Rewilding
Rewilding is an approach to conservation and ecological restoration that seeks to restore natural processes, ecological interactions, wildlife populations, and functioning ecosystems. Rather than attempting only to preserve landscapes in a fixed historical condition, rewilding commonly emphasizes allowing ecological systems to become more self-regulating, dynamic, connected, and resilient.
Scientific definitions of rewilding vary. Some approaches emphasize large protected areas, ecological corridors, and the restoration of top predators, while others focus on trophic complexity, natural disturbance, hydrology, passive vegetation recovery, or the return of locally extinct species. Modern rewilding increasingly combines natural processes with carefully planned human intervention, monitoring, adaptive management, and community participation.
Research suggests that rewilding can contribute to biodiversity recovery and ecosystem restoration, but outcomes vary according to ecological conditions, landscape history, species composition, management choices, and social context. Studies also caution that rewilding is not a single standardized technique and that passive recovery is not necessarily preferable to active management in every ecosystem.
Rewilding Science and Ecological Principles
A central goal of rewilding is the restoration of ecological processes rather than simply increasing the number of protected species. These processes may include predation, herbivory, grazing, browsing, seed dispersal, nutrient cycling, scavenging, flooding, natural disturbance, and interactions among plants, animals, fungi, and microorganisms.
Trophic rewilding focuses particularly on restoring large animals and the ecological relationships associated with them. Predators, herbivores, ecosystem engineers, and other influential species can affect vegetation structure, prey populations, nutrient movement, waterways, soil processes, and entire food webs.
Research on wolves and other large predators has helped stimulate interest in trophic cascades, although scientists continue to debate the strength, causes, and variability of these effects. Reintroductions of large herbivores can similarly alter vegetation and habitat structure, while species such as beavers can reshape rivers and wetlands through their engineering activities.
Rewilding is increasingly viewed as complementary rather than necessarily opposed to conventional conservation. Active habitat management, species translocations, grazing, fire management, and other interventions may remain important where ecological processes have been heavily altered or where cultural landscapes contain biodiversity that depends on continued management.
Climate change also complicates attempts to restore ecosystems to specific historical baselines. Some researchers therefore argue that rewilding should emphasize ecological function, adaptability, connectivity, and resilience rather than attempting to recreate an exact past condition.
Wildlife Reintroductions and Trophic Rewilding
Species reintroductions are among the most visible forms of rewilding. Projects around the world have returned predators, herbivores, birds, reptiles, and other animals to areas from which they had disappeared.
Argentina's Iberá wetlands represent one of the most prominent examples of multispecies rewilding. Jaguars, giant anteaters, and other native animals have been returned as part of a broader effort to reconstruct ecological relationships and rebuild a functioning wetland ecosystem. The successful reproduction of reintroduced jaguars indicates that restored populations can eventually become increasingly independent of direct human assistance.
Other projects have returned or strengthened populations of European bison, Przewalski's horses, red deer, guanacos, cheetahs, white rhinoceroses, mountain bongos, swamp deer, platypuses, tortoises, turtles, macaws, condors, and other wildlife.
Large-animal restoration can influence much more than the target species. Research suggests that restored mammals may affect vegetation, insects, microbial communities, nutrient cycling, seed dispersal, grazing patterns, predation, and other ecological processes.
Successful reintroductions generally require suitable habitat, adequate prey or food, genetic and demographic planning, disease management, monitoring, legal approval, community involvement, and preparation for coexistence between wildlife and people.
The evidence also shows that reintroductions can produce unexpected ecological interactions. Rewilding therefore requires long-term observation and adaptive management rather than assuming that restoring a species will automatically recreate a historical ecosystem.
Rewilding in Europe
Europe has become one of the major centers of modern rewilding. Agricultural abandonment, changing rural economies, wildlife recovery, and expanding conservation networks have created opportunities for large-scale restoration.
Rewilding projects operate across countries including Romania, Spain, Portugal, France, Scotland, Croatia, Bulgaria, Poland, Slovakia, Belgium, Montenegro, Greece, Türkiye, and the Netherlands.
European initiatives include the restoration of bison, vultures, wild horses, deer, forests, peatlands, rivers, wetlands, oyster reefs, and other ecological systems. Natural grazing and the return of large herbivores are frequently used to encourage dynamic vegetation patterns and habitat diversity.
The European Rewilding Network links projects across the continent, allowing practitioners to exchange information about wildlife restoration, natural-process management, community engagement, finance, monitoring, and coexistence.
Projects in the Southern Carpathians demonstrate how European bison restoration can be combined with nature-based tourism and local enterprise. The Iberian Highlands are being used to investigate the ecological effects of large herbivores while also exploring their potential contribution to rural economies and wildfire management.
Other projects emphasize natural forest development, peatland recovery, restored hydrology, wetland regeneration, and marine restoration.
Rewilding in Britain
Britain has become an important center of public debate and experimentation around rewilding. British projects range from large estates and connected landscapes to wetlands, farms, rivers, coastlines, marine ecosystems, and urban areas.
Projects such as Heal Somerset demonstrate how former agricultural landscapes can experience increases in birds, bats, butterflies, and other wildlife when intensive management is reduced and ecological processes are allowed greater freedom.
Wetland and river restoration can also improve resilience to drought and other environmental stresses. Peatlands, woodlands, natural grazing systems, and restored waterways are increasingly discussed as components of both biodiversity recovery and climate adaptation.
British rewilding advocates also emphasize that food production and nature recovery do not necessarily need to be treated as mutually exclusive. Instead, debates increasingly concern which lands should remain intensively farmed, which could support less intensive production, and which might provide greater ecological benefits through restoration.
The movement has also generated controversy. Unauthorized releases of wild boar and lynx have raised questions about animal welfare, public safety, ecological planning, law, and community consent.
Rewilding in the Americas
Rewilding projects in North and South America range from predator restoration to private-land conservation, national park creation, wildlife corridors, and large-scale ecosystem reconstruction.
Argentina's Iberá wetlands have become an important international example because conservationists have attempted to rebuild an entire ecological community rather than focusing on a single endangered species.
Elsewhere in Argentina, jaguars and guanacos are being restored to landscapes where they had disappeared. Patagonia has also become associated with large-scale conservation land acquisition, restoration, wildlife recovery, and the transfer of protected landscapes into public ownership.
In Chile, conservation lands and new protected areas are contributing to wildlife corridors and habitat protection in Patagonia.
In North America, proposals for large-scale rewilding include restoring wolves and beavers, improving habitat connectivity, protecting large landscape cores, and reducing pressures that interfere with natural ecological processes.
The recovery of California condors in the Pacific Northwest, led in part by the Yurok Tribe, demonstrates how Indigenous leadership can play a central role in species restoration.
Rewilding in Africa, Asia, and Oceania
Rewilding approaches are increasingly being applied in Africa and Asia, particularly where wildlife populations have disappeared from otherwise suitable protected landscapes.
African conservation projects use large-scale wildlife translocations to restore ecological functions and rebuild populations of species such as cheetahs, white rhinoceroses, mountain bongos, and other large mammals.
In Zambia, cheetahs have been returned to the Greater Luangwa ecosystem. Mozambique has re-established a breeding population of white rhinoceroses after decades of absence.
Kenya's mountain bongo recovery illustrates the interaction between captive breeding, international zoo populations, conservation enterprise, habitat protection, and eventual restoration of animals to their native range.
Asian projects include efforts involving tigers, elephants, banteng, swamp deer, tortoises, turtles, and other wildlife. Cambodia and Viet Nam are exploring more systematic national approaches to rewilding in landscapes affected by snaring and severe wildlife depletion.
Cambodia's proposed tiger restoration demonstrates the importance of assessing prey populations, habitat quality, security, management capacity, and long-term viability before returning a major predator.
Australia provides additional examples of successful wildlife reintroductions, including restored platypus populations.
Marine, Freshwater, and Urban Rewilding
Rewilding is no longer restricted to large terrestrial landscapes. The concept is increasingly being applied to rivers, wetlands, coastal ecosystems, seas, and cities.
Marine rewilding may involve restoring oyster reefs, recovering fish populations, rebuilding food webs, reforming fisheries, protecting habitats, and allowing marine ecological processes to recover.
The North Sea's Dogger Bank and restoration efforts along European coastlines illustrate growing interest in applying rewilding principles to marine environments.
Freshwater rewilding can involve restoring natural river connectivity, flood regimes, wetlands, fish populations, beavers, and other ecosystem processes. Restoration of the Danube and associated wetlands demonstrates the importance of hydrology as an ecological process.
Urban rewilding includes wildlife-friendly parks, reduced mowing, native vegetation, restored wetlands, urban forests, and the reintroduction of species such as beavers and seed-dispersing animals.
Urban projects can improve biodiversity and potentially increase access to green spaces, but they also require careful planning because wildlife must coexist with dense human populations.
Rewilding and Climate Change
Rewilding is increasingly presented as a nature-based response to climate change.
Restored peatlands, forests, wetlands, grasslands, floodplains, soils, and marine ecosystems can store carbon while also improving water regulation and ecological resilience.
Large herbivores may influence vegetation, fire regimes, soils, and carbon cycling. Proposals for Arctic rewilding have explored whether restoring large grazing animals could influence vegetation and potentially help protect permafrost.
Rewilding may also strengthen climate adaptation by restoring wetlands that retain water, reconnecting rivers and floodplains, increasing habitat diversity, and creating ecological corridors that allow species to move as environmental conditions change.
Researchers nevertheless caution against assuming that every rewilding project produces automatic climate benefits. Carbon effects depend on ecosystem type, wildlife density, land-use history, management, and ecological interactions.
Rewilding Economies and Conservation Finance
Rewilding increasingly intersects with tourism, rural development, private investment, carbon markets, biodiversity finance, and other economic mechanisms.
Wildlife recovery can support nature-based tourism and create business opportunities for local communities. Projects involving bison in Romania, jaguars in Argentina, and wildlife restoration in Spain and Portugal illustrate attempts to connect ecological recovery with local economic development.
Some organizations are experimenting with conservation loans and investment structures intended to make landscape restoration financially sustainable.
Carbon credits are also being explored as a funding source where wildlife restoration can contribute to soil or ecosystem carbon storage.
Biodiversity credits represent another potential mechanism, although research suggests that existing willingness to pay may be far below the cost of large-scale global nature recovery.
Economic approaches therefore remain experimental and raise questions about measurement, ecological integrity, permanence, additionality, local benefits, and dependence on financial markets.
Monitoring and Measuring Rewilding
Monitoring is essential because rewilding outcomes can be complex, slow, and unpredictable.
Researchers increasingly recommend measuring not only species abundance but also ecological processes, habitat structure, connectivity, trophic interactions, vegetation, soils, hydrology, biodiversity, and social outcomes.
Environmental DNA and other technological tools may help scientists monitor changes across large landscapes.
Research projects are also developing standardized indicators that allow rewilding initiatives to compare ecological and social outcomes.
Long-term monitoring is particularly important because ecological responses may take decades to emerge and because interventions that initially appear successful can produce unexpected consequences.
Governance, Law, and Community Consent
Rewilding is not solely an ecological project. It also involves politics, law, land ownership, economics, culture, and competing ideas about how landscapes should be used.
Returning large predators and herbivores can create conflicts involving livestock, farming, hunting, property, safety, animal welfare, and public perceptions.
Legal systems designed around distinctions between livestock and wildlife can make it difficult to manage free-ranging horses, cattle-like herbivores, or other animals intended to perform ecological functions.
Successful projects increasingly emphasize coexistence, local participation, public communication, adaptive management, and community support.
Unauthorized wildlife releases demonstrate the risks of bypassing these processes. Scientists and conservation organizations have warned that illegal or poorly planned releases can harm animals, damage public confidence, and undermine legitimate restoration programs.
Debates and Criticism
Rewilding remains a contested concept.
Critics argue that the word can be used too broadly, making it difficult to distinguish rewilding from conventional ecological restoration. Ambiguous definitions can also make scientific evaluation and policy development more difficult.
Some critics question assumptions about pristine wilderness and the idea that nature should necessarily be separated from people. Human communities have shaped ecosystems for thousands of years, and traditional management can sometimes maintain important biodiversity.
Mediterranean and other cultural landscapes demonstrate why complete nonintervention may not always produce the most desirable ecological outcome. Grazing, fire management, and other forms of human stewardship may remain necessary.
Rewilding can also create indirect environmental effects. Restoring agricultural land in wealthy countries without changing food consumption could move agricultural production elsewhere and increase biodiversity loss in more species-rich regions.
Public reactions can likewise differ sharply. What conservationists perceive as ecological recovery may be perceived by others as disorder, neglect, lost farmland, dangerous wildlife, or declining rural livelihoods.
These disagreements highlight the importance of treating rewilding as an adaptive process rather than a universal formula.
Rewilding as a Global Conservation Strategy
Modern rewilding increasingly combines several approaches:
- restoring missing wildlife;
- rebuilding trophic relationships;
- allowing vegetation to regenerate;
- restoring rivers, wetlands, forests, grasslands, and marine ecosystems;
- reconnecting fragmented habitats;
- recovering natural disturbance and hydrological processes;
- reducing intensive human pressures;
- monitoring ecological change;
- involving local communities;
- developing wildlife coexistence strategies;
- creating sustainable conservation finance; and
- adapting restoration goals to climate change.
The growing diversity of projects demonstrates that rewilding can range from passive recovery to highly active species restoration.
The common element is an emphasis on restoring ecological function and enabling nature to regain greater capacity for self-organization.
Conclusion
Rewilding has developed from a relatively specialized conservation idea into a broad international movement encompassing wildlife restoration, landscape connectivity, trophic ecology, natural regeneration, river and wetland recovery, marine restoration, urban biodiversity, climate resilience, and conservation finance.
Evidence from Europe, the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Oceania shows that wildlife populations and ecological processes can sometimes recover dramatically when habitat is protected, pressures are reduced, and missing species are restored.
At the same time, rewilding is neither simple nor universally applicable. Ecological outcomes depend on local conditions, historical land use, species interactions, climate, management, governance, and human communities.
The strongest approaches therefore combine ambitious ecological goals with scientific monitoring, adaptive management, legal planning, community involvement, and recognition that people remain part of most modern ecosystems.
Rather than recreating an exact version of the past, contemporary rewilding increasingly seeks to restore ecological processes capable of producing more diverse, resilient, dynamic, and self-sustaining landscapes in the future.
Rewilding: Science, Concepts, and Evidence
| Michael J. Stratigos et al. | The Anthropocene Review | 2026
This critical analysis questions some cultural assumptions behind rewilding, including imagined pristine baselines, human-free nature, and insufficient attention to local knowledge.
| Study authors | Biological Conservation | 2026
A scoping review examines "high-tech rewilding," including digital monitoring and technological interventions, and weighs their potential benefits against dependence and unintended risks.
| Miguel Nuno Bugalho, F. Javier Pérez-Barbería, José Miguel Cardoso Pereira | Ambio | 2025-10-11
The authors warn that strict nonintervention can harm some Mediterranean cultural landscapes, where grazing, fire management, and other active measures may remain ecologically important.
| Ian Convery et al. | Frontiers in Conservation Science | 2025-02-19
This editorial on rewilding in practice stresses context, monitoring, sociocultural dimensions, adaptation, and learning from real-world implementation.
| Study authors | Journal of Environmental Management | 2025
This study maps climate-smart rewilding opportunities, combining biodiversity recovery, climate mitigation and adaptation, and social considerations in landscape planning.
| Brenda Maria Zoderer et al. | Conservation Letters | 2025
Researchers systematically characterize 89 European rewilding projects, showing the diversity of goals, interventions, ecological settings, and approaches used under the rewilding label.
| Patrick B. Finnerty et al. | BioScience | 2025
A systematic review examines urban faunal reintroductions and finds growing interest in city rewilding alongside major research, monitoring, and community-engagement gaps.
| Study authors | Nature Ecology & Evolution | 2025
Research explores how trophic restoration can alter biodiversity and zoonotic-disease hazards, illustrating why public-health consequences should be considered in rewilding design.
| Current Biology | Current Biology | 2024-10-21
This dispatch examines how rewilding could contribute to international biodiversity targets by restoring ecological processes and expanding functioning natural systems.
| Miguel B. Araújo, Diogo Alagador | Current Biology | 2024-09-09
Researchers estimate that roughly a quarter of Europe could be compatible with rewilding, with opportunities differing between passive recovery and active species restoration.
| Sally Hawkins et al. | Frontiers in Conservation Science | 2024
The authors develop a theory-of-change framework for rewilding, describing it as nature-led but human-enabled, place-based, adaptive, and inherently long term.
| Meredith Root-Bernstein et al. | Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution | 2024
This paper expands rewilding beyond animals by examining how foundation plants and megaflora could restore ecosystem functions in the Sahel and Southern Cone.
| Sarah Weber Hertel, David Luther | Frontiers in Conservation Science | 2023-12-04
Analysis of IUCN restoration cases finds that social and political conditions, including local awareness and proof of concept, can strongly influence project success.
| Emma E. Hart, Amy Haigh, Simone Ciuti | Biological Conservation | 2023
A scoping review maps the scientific evidence for European rewilding, finding growing support for biodiversity and ecosystem benefits while highlighting geographic bias and monitoring gaps.
| William J. Ripple et al. | BioScience | 2022-08-09
Scientists propose a Western Rewilding Network in the United States centered on large protected landscapes, restored wolves and beavers, and reduced livestock grazing.
| Steve Carver et al. | Conservation Biology | 2021-06-04
An international group proposes ten guiding principles for rewilding, emphasizing natural processes, ecological integrity, connectivity, scale, coexistence, and adaptive management.
| Carlos Carroll | Conservation Biology | 2020-06-01
This article revisits structural rewilding and reserve design under climate change, asking how connectivity and large-scale conservation should adapt to shifting species distributions.
| University of Oxford | University of Oxford | 2020-01-27
Oxford researchers explore whether restoring large herbivores and grassland processes in the Arctic could help protect permafrost and reduce climate-change risks.
| Jens-Christian Svenning et al. | BioScience | 2019-10-16
This paper argues that rewilding and traditional active conservation need not be opposing paradigms and can be combined according to ecological goals and context.
| Matt W. Hayward et al. | Biological Conservation | 2019
The authors critique ambiguous uses of "rewilding," arguing that unclear definitions and overlap with ecological restoration can make scientific evaluation and policy harder.
| Nathalie Pettorelli et al. | Cambridge University Press | 2019
A broad overview explains rewilding's competing definitions, ecological ambitions, role for people, and both the opportunities and controversies surrounding the concept.
| Jens-Christian Svenning et al. | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B | 2018
A review of trophic rewilding finds promising ecosystem effects from restoring large animals while stressing that outcomes depend on density, context, and long-term ecological interactions.
| Jens-Christian Svenning et al. | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 2016
This synthesis outlines a research agenda for trophic rewilding, including megafauna restoration, food-web effects, ecological complexity, and human coexistence.
| Wouter Helmer, Deli Saavedra, Magnus Sylvén, Frans Schepers et al. | Springer | 2015
A foundational European chapter explains how agricultural abandonment and land-use change can create opportunities for large-scale rewilding and wildlife recovery.
| Robert L. Beschta, William J. Ripple | Biological Conservation | 2012
A synthesis of Yellowstone's first 15 years after wolf reintroduction reviews trophic-cascade evidence involving woody plants, herbivores, beavers, and ecosystem recovery.
Rewilding in Britain and Europe
| The Guardian | The Guardian | 2026-08-24
A self-seeded English wildflower meadow illustrates spontaneous ecological recovery when intensive management stops but a light annual hay-cutting regime remains.
| The Guardian | The Guardian | 2026-08-21
Reporting from Somerset examines restored wetlands and river systems at Holnicote, where rewilded areas showed resilience during severe dry conditions.
| Rewilding Europe | Rewilding Europe | 2026-08-18
A nature-based tourism loan near Romania's bison reintroduction area illustrates how wildlife recovery can be linked with local enterprise and a growing wild economy.
| Rewilding Europe | Rewilding Europe | 2026-08-04
A census of endangered Marsican brown bears highlights the importance of connected corridors and bear-smart communities as the population expands beyond its core range.
| Rewilding Europe | Rewilding Europe | 2026-07-30
A Dutch restoration enterprise demonstrates large-scale rebuilding of native oyster reefs and connects marine ecosystem recovery with conservation-oriented business.
| Rewilding Europe | Rewilding Europe | 2026-07-23
New projects in Poland and Slovakia join the European Rewilding Network, expanding collaboration and practical exchange across Central European landscapes.
| Rewilding Europe | Rewilding Europe | 2026-07-07
Work in Spain's Iberian Highlands shows how livestock and wildlife law can constrain free-living horses and Tauros even when they are intended to perform ecological functions.
| Rewilding Europe | Rewilding Europe | 2026-07-02
Cinereous vultures hatch in Bulgaria's Rhodope Mountains for the first time in more than three decades following sustained restoration and species-recovery work.
| Rewilding Europe | Rewilding Europe | 2026-06-29
Rewilding Europe's annual review summarizes 15 years of expansion, project lessons, wildlife recovery, and the movement's transition toward more mainstream conservation practice.
| The Guardian | The Guardian | 2026-06-01
Reporting from Heal Somerset documents rebounds in birds, bats, butterflies, and other wildlife after conventional farmland was shifted toward rewilding.
| Rewilding Europe | Rewilding Europe | 2026-05-12
An agreement in France's Die Forest commits to allowing natural forest processes to lead recovery for at least 60 years.
| Rewilding Europe | Rewilding Europe | 2026-04-20
A Scottish partnership is restoring roughly 1,000 hectares of peatland in the Affric Highlands for biodiversity, carbon storage, water, and landscape recovery.
| Rewilding Europe | Rewilding Europe | 2026-03-24
A former mining landscape in Portugal's Greater Côa Valley is being transformed as ponds, lakes, vegetation, and wildlife recover through rewilding.
| University of Cambridge | University of Cambridge | 2026-03-03
Researchers assess voluntary biodiversity credits as a possible source of restoration finance while finding that current willingness to pay is far below what recovery requires.
| Rewilding Europe | Rewilding Europe | 2026-02-17
Hydrological restoration reconnects Danube waters with Lake Kartal, demonstrating how restoring natural water dynamics can revive wetlands and wildlife habitat.
| Rewilding Europe | Rewilding Europe | 2026-02-10
A Normandy initiative based on "libre évolution" allows forests, wetlands, and former farmland to recover with minimal intervention.
| University of Cambridge | University of Cambridge | 2025-02-13
This research warns that restoring land in wealthy countries can displace agricultural production abroad, creating a "biodiversity leakage" problem if consumption is ignored.
| Dr Sahran Higgins | Rewilding Britain | 2024-08-20
A practical discussion of monitoring explains why biodiversity, habitats, processes, and long-term change must be measured to understand whether rewilding is working.
| University of Oxford | University of Oxford | 2023-02-16
A global review of large-carnivore translocations identifies factors associated with success, including wild-born animals, younger individuals, and acclimation before release.
| Rewilding Britain | Rewilding Britain | 2021-03-09
This article examines employment and volunteering around rewilding and challenges the claim that nature recovery necessarily removes people and livelihoods from the land.
Rewilding in the Americas
| Marisi López | Rewildology | 2026-08-11
A project perspective describes the expansion of Iberá's jaguar population and the accompanying growth of wildlife tourism and local economic activity.
| Cristián Saucedo, Oswald J. Schmitz et al. | bioRxiv | 2026-07-28
A preprint models how restoring pumas and guanacos in Patagonia could affect trophic interactions and ecosystem carbon storage.
| Suzana Camargo | Mongabay | 2026-06-24
Conservationists in Rio de Janeiro are rebuilding an "empty forest" by restoring locally vanished fauna one species at a time.
| Tompkins Conservation | Tompkins Conservation | 2026-05-18
A visitor sighting highlights the visibility of Iberá's restored jaguar population and the maturation of a long-running reintroduction program.
| Associated Press | Associated Press | 2026-05-07
A look at Ted Turner's conservation legacy covers large private-land restoration efforts involving bison, black-footed ferrets, tortoises, and other native species.
| Russell Parton | University of Exeter | 2026-03-03
Sediment evidence from Panama suggests ancient megafauna shaped vegetation, supporting the idea that restoring large herbivores could recover some lost ecosystem functions.
| Tompkins Conservation | Rewilding.org | 2026-01-16
Guanacos return to El Impenetrable after more than a century, restoring grazing, nutrient movement, and other ecological functions once missing from the landscape.
| Reuters | Reuters | 2025-12-19
Chile moves toward a new national park at Cape Froward using donated conservation land, strengthening habitat protection and wildlife corridors in Patagonia.
| Megan "Turtle" Southern | Rewilding.org | 2025-10-17
Jaguar Acaí is released at El Impenetrable, extending Argentina's effort to rebuild viable jaguar populations across separated landscapes.
| The Washington Post | The Washington Post | 2025-09-26
This feature examines arguments for restoring mountain lions to parts of their former eastern U.S. range and the ecological and social barriers involved.
| Administración de Parques Nacionales | Argentina.gob.ar | 2025-03-25
Argentina reports the transfer of a wild-born jaguar from Iberá to El Impenetrable as part of efforts to reconnect and strengthen recovering populations.
A profile of Argentina's Iberá region examines decades of restoration, wildlife reintroductions, jaguar recovery, and the growth of conservation-linked tourism.
| Tompkins Conservation | Rewilding.org | 2022-08-04
Wild jaguar births in Iberá show that the reintroduced population is beginning to reproduce without direct human assistance.
| Tompkins Conservation | Rewilding.org | 2022-01-17
The release of an adult male jaguar adds genetic and demographic strength to Iberá's newly restored predator population.
| United Nations Environment Programme | UNEP | 2022-01-12
UNEP presents jaguar restoration in Argentina as an example of rebuilding ecological interactions while supporting protected areas and nature-based local economies.
| Rewilding Argentina conservationists | Nature | 2022
Practitioners reflect on lessons from Argentina's multispecies rewilding program and what those lessons could contribute to global biodiversity goals.
| Kyrsten Stringer | Re:wild | 2021-03-18
This article explains the ecological role of jaguars and the long-term work behind returning the species to the Iberá wetlands.
| Tompkins Conservation | Rewilding.org | 2021-02-15
Jaguars are released into Argentina's Iberá wetlands after roughly 70 years of local absence, restoring an apex predator to a recovering ecosystem.
| United Nations Environment Programme | UNEP | 2021-02-11
UNEP reports on the first jaguar releases in Iberá and the ecological and community work required to bring the species back.
| Study authors | Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation | 2017
A scientific review of Iberá assesses multispecies reintroductions and the broader strategy of rebuilding a degraded wetland ecosystem through missing native fauna.
Rewilding in Africa, Asia, and Oceania
| IUCN Viet Nam | IUCN | 2026-08-13
This update outlines technical and policy challenges being addressed as Viet Nam develops its first national rewilding plan for 2027–2035.
| Charles Mpaka | Mongabay | 2026-07-27
Cheetahs are returned to Zambia's Greater Luangwa ecosystem, restoring a predator that had disappeared from the landscape.
| Ryan Truscott | Mongabay | 2026-07-24
African wild dogs are recorded in a Malawi national park after more than a decade, offering a sign of improved connectivity and carnivore recovery.
| Shanna Hanbury | Mongabay | 2026-06-12
Mozambique establishes a breeding population of white rhinos again after decades, using translocation to rebuild a lost ecological and conservation presence.
| Arathi Menon, Andy Ball | Mongabay | 2026-06-04
Cambodia's proposed tiger reintroduction is examined critically, including prey availability, habitat readiness, management capacity, and whether conditions can support a viable population.
| Megan Strauss | Mongabay | 2026-05-27
Monitoring indicates that reintroduced platypuses in Australia's Royal National Park are surviving and breeding, an encouraging sign for the restored population.
| IUCN Viet Nam | IUCN | 2026-05-22
IUCN reflects on the launch of work toward Viet Nam's national rewilding plan, including snaring, "empty forest" conditions, species restoration, and institutional coordination.
| Mongabay.com | Mongabay | 2026-05-12
A translocated swamp-deer population in India is growing in its new habitat, illustrating the role of moving animals to rebuild secure populations.
| IUCN Viet Nam | IUCN | 2026-05-04
Lessons from Cambodia's Siem Pang Wildlife Sanctuary are examined as a model for restoring depleted forests and planning reintroductions in Viet Nam.
| Lynet Otieno | Mongabay | 2026-04-03
Kenya prepares to receive mountain bongos from European zoos as part of a longer-term effort to rebuild the species in its native range.
A conservation-enterprise case study explores how business, breeding programs, and rewilding can support recovery of Kenya's critically endangered mountain bongo.
| Rhett Ayers Butler | Mongabay | 2026-03-10
Singapore's potential to restore locally extinct reptiles raises questions about habitat, urban coexistence, ecological function, and the limits of reintroduction.
| Carolyn Cowan | Mongabay | 2026-02-17
Conservationists use helicopter translocation to move isolated banteng in Cambodia, aiming to strengthen population security and reconnect ecological restoration efforts.
| Rhett Ayers Butler | Mongabay | 2025-10-28
Bangladesh plans to return captive elephants to the wild, a difficult rewilding effort involving animal welfare, habitat, training, and human-elephant coexistence.
| Dr Angela Gaylard | African Parks | 2025-03-20
African Parks explains how carefully planned wildlife translocations can rebuild ecological functions in protected landscapes where key species have disappeared.
Work with the critically endangered Bengal florican demonstrates how assurance populations and carefully managed releases may support future rewilding.
| WWF | World Wildlife Fund | 2022
WWF reviews tiger-recovery efforts across Asia, including translocations, habitat protection, prey recovery, and plans to restore tigers where they have disappeared.
Marine, Urban, Climate, and Rewilding Economies
| The Guardian | The Guardian | 2026-08-20
This article examines replacing wildlife-poor lawns with native plants and more complex habitats as a household-scale form of ecological restoration and rewilding.
| Patrick Barkham | The Guardian | 2026-06-06
A profile of pond creation shows how small, carefully designed wetlands can rapidly create habitat complexity and support broader rewilding at landscape scale.
| Mongabay.com | Mongabay | 2026-04-27
A South African reserve links wildlife restoration with soil-carbon finance, illustrating both the potential and complexity of using carbon markets to fund rewilding.
| Mongabay | Mongabay | 2022-06
An interview with Charles Clover explores marine rewilding through fisheries reform, protected areas, species recovery, and allowing ocean ecosystems to regenerate.
| Rewilding Europe | Rewilding Europe | 2022-03-18
Rewilding Europe argues that restoring natural processes can contribute to both climate mitigation and adaptation through carbon storage, water regulation, and resilience.
| Samuel Yutong Cai | University of Oxford | 2021-07-02
Urban rewilding can improve access to green space and health, but the article stresses thoughtful species selection, site design, and attention to environmental risks.
| WWF | World Wildlife Magazine | 2021
Restoration along the Lower Danube includes sturgeon recovery, river connectivity, and efforts to revive natural processes in one of Europe's great freshwater systems.
This feature looks at European rewilding and climate, including restored coastal wetlands at Wallasea and the potential of peatlands, forests, and floodplains.
| Rewilding Britain | Rewilding Britain | n.d.
An overview connects rewilding with carbon storage, restored peatlands and woodlands, natural flood management, and greater ecosystem resilience to climate change.
| Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery | University of Oxford | n.d.
A Namibian project explores large-landscape wildlife recovery alongside conservation finance, carbon benefits, ecological connectivity, and local economic opportunities.
Rewilding Debates, Governance, and Society
| Ben Goldsmith | The Times | 2026-08
This commentary disputes claims that rewilding inherently increases wildfire danger, arguing that restored hydrology and natural grazing can reduce some fire risks.
| Scottish Rewilding Alliance | Scottish Rewilding Alliance | 2026-05-13
A briefing surveys rewilding progress in Scotland, including beavers, native woodland, peatlands, seagrass, oysters, and proposals for scaling nature recovery.
| Spoorthy Raman | Mongabay | 2026-04-20
An interview with Alister Scott discusses global coordination among rewilding practitioners, shared principles, and the challenge of scaling projects across different social contexts.
| Marlowe Starling | Mongabay | 2025-11-17
France's Dauphiné Alps project illustrates the opportunities and practical challenges of building a very large connected landscape for natural-process recovery.
| Sandra Laville | The Guardian | 2025-05-01
A Devon estate links landscape restoration with mental-health and wellbeing programs, showing how rewilding projects can also serve social and therapeutic goals.
| The Washington Post | The Washington Post | 2025-04-30
The release of lynx without authorization in Britain becomes a case study in conflict between rewilding enthusiasm, animal welfare, law, and community consent.
| Gary Hartley | The Guardian | 2025-04-12
A report on unauthorized animal releases in Britain explores the ecological, legal, and public-trust problems created by "guerrilla rewilding."
| Simon Walker | Earth.Org | 2023-05-11
An accessible overview argues that successful rewilding depends not only on ecological recovery but also on rebuilding people's relationship with wild nature.
Rewilding Science, Theory, and Monitoring
| Study authors | Global Ecology and Conservation | 2025-08
A case study examines whether passive rewilding of agricultural land could provide biodiversity gains under England's Biodiversity Net Gain system.
| Study authors | Biological Conservation | 2025-05
Research in an arid rewilding landscape finds that restoring above-ground trophic diversity can influence bacteria, fungi, and other below-ground microbial communities.
| Study authors | Science of the Total Environment | 2025-04-10
A seven-site Czech study finds that large-herbivore rewilding can increase grassland resilience to nitrogen and water stress.
| Study authors | Biological Conservation | 2025-04
Researchers define "covert rewilding" as unauthorized species releases and offer a framework for managers faced with deciding whether such populations should remain, be monitored, or be removed.
Researchers develop a clearer definition of marine rewilding to distinguish it from related forms of marine restoration and conservation.
| Study authors | One Earth | 2025-03-21
This perspective proposes rewilding-inspired forestry that restores natural disturbance, trophic complexity, and ecological processes instead of relying primarily on intensive forest management.
| Study authors | Journal for Nature Conservation | 2025-03
Researchers propose ecological and social indicators for monitoring rewilding projects involving medium and large herbivores.
| Chris Sutherland, Xavier Lambin, Darragh Hare, Kenny Kortland et al. | Nature | 2025-02-04
Conservation scientists argue that unauthorized wildlife releases can undermine evidence-based reintroduction programs and public confidence in rewilding.
| Study authors | Biological Conservation | 2025-02
A study of reintroduced eastern quolls in Tasmania shows how trophic interactions can develop in unexpected ways after predators are returned to landscapes.
| IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management | IUCN | 2025
IUCN's practical rewilding guidelines translate broad rewilding principles into recommendations for planning, governance, implementation, and monitoring.
Researchers examine the motivations behind guerrilla rewilding and what unauthorized releases reveal about public attitudes, animal welfare, and conservation governance.
| Mark Moritz, C. E. Hunter, Paul Scholte | Frontiers in Conservation Science | 2024-09-24
Restoration of natural flooding in Cameroon's Waza-Logone floodplain demonstrates how rewilding hydrology can benefit vegetation, wildlife, pastoralists, and ecosystem processes.
| Jens-Christian Svenning et al. | Current Biology | 2024-05-06
This review argues that trophic rewilding can make ecosystems more adaptable to novel climatic and ecological conditions by restoring large animals and complex food webs.
| Study authors | Biological Conservation | 2024-04
Scientists argue that amphibians deserve greater attention in trophic rewilding because they perform important ecological functions in aquatic ecosystems.
| Study authors | Biological Conservation | 2024-03
Research in Argentina's Iberá wetlands finds that returning native large mammals can produce ecological cascades extending to dung beetle communities.
| Study authors | Frontiers in Conservation Science | 2024-01-05
The Yellowstone-to-Yukon region is examined as a continental-scale example of reconnecting landscapes, restoring wildlife, and coordinating conservation across political boundaries.
A systematic review examines environmental DNA metabarcoding as a tool for detecting biodiversity change and monitoring terrestrial rewilding.
| Study authors | Biological Conservation | 2023-05
A nine-year experiment finds important trade-offs between passive rewilding and rewilding involving large herbivores, showing that neither approach is universally superior.
Wildlife recovery in China's Sanjiangyuan National Park illustrates both the potential of large-scale rewilding and increasing competition between recovering wild herbivores and livestock.
| Joshua Rapp Learn | Smithsonian Magazine | 2016-03-08
This article examines evidence that attempting to restore landscapes to a particular historical state can sometimes create unexpected or undesirable ecological effects.
European Rewilding in Practice
| Rewilding Europe | Rewilding Europe | 2026-06-23
Protected areas in Belgium, Montenegro, and Croatia join the European Rewilding Network to strengthen natural-process restoration and collaboration.
| Rewilding Europe | Rewilding Europe | 2026-05-28
The return of European bison to Romania's Southern Carpathians is being used to build public awareness of rewilding and links between wildlife and local communities.
| Rewilding Europe | Rewilding Europe | 2026-04-30
The European Wildlife Comeback Fund reports supporting reintroductions of bison, vultures, hamsters, horses, Tauros, trout, and other ecologically influential species.
| Rewilding Europe | Rewilding Europe | 2026-03-16
Rewilding in Ukraine's Danube Delta combines wetland and grassland restoration with efforts to reconnect people affected by war with recovering nature.
| Rewilding Europe | Rewilding Europe | 2026-03-16
Rewilding projects in Türkiye and Greece join a continent-wide network designed to exchange practical experience and expand landscape-scale restoration.
| Rewilding Europe | Rewilding Europe | 2026-03-09
A conservation-oriented loan in Portugal's Greater Côa Valley illustrates attempts to build local economies around wildlife recovery and nature-based tourism.
| Rewilding Europe | Rewilding Europe | 2026-02-26
A Scottish Highland property where natural recovery has been encouraged for decades joins the European Rewilding Network.
| Rewilding Europe | Rewilding Europe | 2026-02-12
New guidance focuses on helping European communities and municipal leaders coexist with recovering populations of large wildlife.
| Rewilding Europe | Rewilding Europe | 2026-01-21
Nine European bison are introduced to Spain's Iberian Highlands as part of research into their ecological effects, wildfire management potential, and value to rural economies.
| Rewilding Europe | Rewilding Europe | 2026-01-12
Rewilding teams experiment with film, music, influencers, and other cultural approaches to increase public engagement with nature recovery.
| Sarah Kuta | Smithsonian Magazine | 2026-01-09
Red-necked ostriches are introduced in Saudi Arabia as ecological substitutes for the extinct Arabian ostrich in a broader desert rewilding program.
| Rewilding Europe | Rewilding Europe | 2025-12-29
Red deer releases in Croatia's Velebit Mountains demonstrate collaboration between rewilding organizations and hunting associations.
| Rewilding Europe | Rewilding Europe | 2025-12-19
Przewalski's horses are released into a protected area in Spain's Iberian Highlands to restore natural grazing and support wildlife-based tourism.
| Rewilding Europe | Rewilding Europe | 2025-12-17
A continent-wide review highlights free-flowing rivers, recovering forests, returning vultures, and expanding populations of wild grazers.
| Rewilding Europe | Rewilding Europe | 2025-12-11
Europe's young rewilding network expands as students and early-career conservationists become increasingly involved in practical nature recovery.
| Rewilding Europe | Rewilding Europe | 2025-12-09
New financial partnerships seek to make peatland restoration, natural grazing, and other large-scale rewilding activities investable.
| Rewilding Europe | Rewilding Europe | 2025-12-04
The Rewilding Dogger Bank coalition works to restore one of the North Sea's most important ecological areas and expand the concept of marine rewilding.
| Rewilding Europe | Rewilding Europe | 2025-11-27
Rewilding in rural Spain is examined not only as biodiversity restoration but as a potential source of employment, tourism, and local enterprise.
| Rewilding Europe | Rewilding Europe | 2025-11-21
New partnerships in Scotland's Affric Highlands seek to connect landowners, residents, businesses, and protected areas around landscape-scale recovery.
| Caroline Fraser | Yale Environment 360 | 2010
This feature examines early Scottish efforts to restore native forests, reduce excessive deer numbers, return beavers, and debate the eventual recovery of large carnivores.
Rewilding Britain
| Rewilding Britain | Rewilding Britain | 2026-08-13
This article argues that healthier peatlands, wetlands, woodlands, and naturally grazed landscapes can reduce some of the conditions that intensify wildfire.
| Rebecca Wrigley | Rewilding Britain | 2026-07-30
The author challenges the framing of food production and nature recovery as mutually exclusive and argues for changing where and how land is farmed.
| Rewilding Britain | Rewilding Britain | 2026-07-08
Offshore wind development is discussed as an opportunity to incorporate marine restoration and biodiversity recovery into Britain's rapidly changing seas.
| Rewilding Britain | Rewilding Britain | 2026-07-08
This policy-oriented article proposes integrating rewilding with economic regeneration, public health, climate adaptation, and regional development.
| Sara King | Rewilding Britain | 2026-06-15
Practitioners from across Britain share lessons about species recovery, landscape management, community engagement, and financing at a national rewilding gathering.
| Rewilding Britain | Rewilding Britain | 2026-06-05
An analysis examines how election outcomes in England, Scotland, and Wales could affect policies supporting large-scale nature recovery.
| Rebecca Wrigley | Rewilding Britain | 2026-05-21
This opinion piece argues that conservation should focus more heavily on restoring dynamic ecological processes rather than maintaining landscapes in fixed historical conditions.
| Rewilding Britain | Rewilding Britain | 2026-05-19
New grants support experimental British projects seeking to scale species recovery, natural processes, and community-led rewilding.
| Rewilding Britain | Rewilding Britain | 2026-04-16
Rewilding Britain's Innovation Fund reaches £1 million in cumulative support for projects experimenting with new approaches to nature recovery.
| Rewilding Britain | Rewilding Britain | 2025-11-05
Eleven projects receive funding for work ranging from restoring amphibians to rebuilding marine ecosystems and ecological connectivity.
| Sahran Higgins | Rewilding Britain | 2025-08-06
Researchers work toward a standardized framework for measuring how rewilding affects ecosystem processes, biodiversity, and social outcomes.
| Ellen Rickford | Rewilding Britain | 2025-07-10
Businesses are encouraged to consider biodiversity loss as a material economic risk and rewilding as one possible component of nature-positive investment.
| Charlotte Maddix | Rewilding Britain | 2025-07-09
This policy commentary argues that Scotland's natural-environment legislation should set stronger ecosystem-restoration and rewilding targets.
| Oliver Newham | Rewilding Britain | 2025-06-25
Ending routine burning of upland vegetation is presented as a way to restore peat, improve water retention, reduce carbon emissions, and allow ecological recovery.
| Rewilding Britain | Rewilding Britain | 2025-06-05
The article calls for stronger recovery of Britain's marine ecosystems through habitat restoration, fisheries reform, and protection of natural processes.
| Rewilding Britain | Rewilding Britain | 2025-05-20
Britain's beaver comeback is presented as an example of how a formerly extinct native species can once again shape rivers, wetlands, and floodplains.
| Rewilding Britain | Rewilding Britain | 2025-05-07
Thirteen British rewilding projects receive funding for experimental work on wildlife restoration, ecological connectivity, and natural processes.
| Rewilding Britain | Rewilding Britain | 2025-03-06
A reading guide surveys books explaining rewilding, ecological recovery, species restoration, and changing relationships between people and nature.
| Rewilding Britain | Rewilding Britain | 2025-02-11
The organization condemns illegal releases of wild boar and stresses that species restoration requires ecological planning, legal approval, and local involvement.
| Steven Morris | The Guardian | 2024-08-01
Cornwall's Tor to Shore initiative links terrestrial rewilding with river, farm, coastal, and marine restoration across a connected landscape and seascape.
Wildlife Reintroductions and Global Rewilding
| Claire Turrell | Mongabay | 2022-03-31
The return of bison to England is placed within the wider recovery of the species in Europe and North America and growing interest in restoring its ecological role.
| Carolyn Cowan | Mongabay | 2022-03-22
Community-led restoration in Cambodia's Tonle Sap seeks to rebuild depleted fish populations and restore ecosystem processes supporting both wildlife and people.
| Carolyn Cowan | Mongabay | 2022-02-17
Research suggests that returning large mammals can accelerate restoration by rebuilding grazing, predation, seed dispersal, nutrient cycling, and other ecological interactions.
| Oscar Bermeo Ocaña | Mongabay | 2022-02-15
Giant anteaters returned to Iberá become part of a much larger effort to rebuild the wetland's missing mammal community.
| Rebecca Branford, Sue Branford | Mongabay | 2021-11-15
WildEast proposes restoring nature across 20% of East Anglia through a decentralized network of farms, gardens, estates, and community lands.
| Rachel Fritts | Mongabay | 2021-09-21
The Yurok Tribe leads efforts to return California condors to the Pacific Northwest after more than a century of regional absence.
| Marlowe Starling | Mongabay | 2021-09-20
The dramatic recovery of the Mauritius kestrel provides lessons about captive breeding, reintroduction, genetic bottlenecks, and long-term conservation.
| Kieran Dodds | Mongabay | 2021-06-21
Scottish rewilding projects examine how ecological history can inform restoration while recognizing that future landscapes cannot simply recreate the past.
| Mongabay | Mongabay | 2021-05-26
The unexpected appearance of a giant otter in Argentina's Iberá region raises hopes that a species believed locally extinct may return naturally alongside active reintroductions.
| Rhett Ayers Butler | Mongabay | 2021-05-17
A major Galápagos initiative seeks to restore degraded islands, control invasive species, and recover populations of threatened native wildlife.
| Johan Augustin | Mongabay | 2021-03-12
The Iberian lynx recovery illustrates how captive breeding, rabbit restoration, habitat protection, and carefully managed releases can reverse severe population decline.
| Rhett Ayers Butler | Mongabay | 2021-03-09
Kris Tompkins discusses restoring wildlife, creating national parks, and transferring privately acquired conservation land to governments in Patagonia.
| Meghie Rodrigues | Mongabay | 2020-11-03
Scientists argue that restoring wildlife and ecological processes can contribute simultaneously to biodiversity conservation and climate mitigation.
| Jeremy Hance | Mongabay | 2019-10-21
Water buffalo are increasingly used as ecological proxies in European wetlands because their grazing and wallowing create habitat diversity.
| Jeremy Hance | Mongabay | 2019-07-19
Conservationists consider how the endangered tamaraw of the Philippines might be restored to landscapes from which it has disappeared.
| Jeremy Hance | Mongabay | 2019-01-14
The idea of restoring tapirs to Borneo raises questions about ecological surrogates, historical baselines, and the boundaries of rewilding.
| Jeremy Hance | Mongabay | 2015-05-12
The European bison's recovery from extinction in the wild is examined as one of the continent's most significant large-mammal conservation successes.
| Jeremy Hance | Mongabay | 2015-01-29
Mozambique's Gorongosa National Park demonstrates how wildlife populations and ecological communities can recover after war and widespread animal loss.
| Jeremy Hance | Mongabay | 2014-12-17
Scientists reintroduce agoutis to Rio de Janeiro's Tijuca Forest to restore seed dispersal and ecological interactions in an urban rainforest.
| Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa | Mongabay | 2014-01-06
Researchers investigate whether returning native guanacos could increase ecological diversity while remaining compatible with livestock production in Chile.
Rewilding Debates, Cities, Marine Systems, and Restoration
| The Conversation / Phys.org | Phys.org | 2026-04
Four decades after the Chernobyl disaster, reduced human activity has allowed wolves, lynx, bears, bison, and other large mammals to increase in the exclusion zone.
| The Conversation / Phys.org | Phys.org | 2026-03
Researchers find that generative AI tends to depict rewilding as neat and idyllic unless prompted to show the ecological disorder and conflict characteristic of genuinely wild systems.
| Sean Mowbray | Mongabay | 2025-02-18
Global small-wildcat projects show that successful reintroductions require years of habitat assessment, political support, prey restoration, monitoring, and adaptive management.
| Suzana Camargo | Mongabay | 2025-02-07
Captive-born blue-and-yellow macaws in Brazil receive free-flight training to develop navigation, foraging, predator avoidance, and other skills before independent life.
| Kristine Sabillo | Mongabay | 2025-01-17
Bangladesh releases captive-bred elongated and Asian giant tortoises as part of a long-term effort to rebuild depleted wild populations.
| Patrick Barkham | The Guardian | 2024-11-14
Public fundraising enables conservationists to purchase Strawberry Hill, an accidentally rewilded farm supporting nightingales, turtle doves, bats, orchids, and butterflies.
| Letters | The Guardian | 2024-09-13
Readers debate the distinction between true ecological rewilding and simply reducing mowing or maintenance in municipal spaces.
| Patrick Barkham | The Guardian | 2024-07-31
A 200-hectare farm near London is converted toward wood pasture and other wildlife habitat, financed partly through England's biodiversity-offset system.
| Carolyn Cowan | Mongabay | 2024-04-04
Fifty captive-bred spotted softshell turtles are released in Vietnam, combining ex-situ breeding with efforts to restore a critically threatened freshwater species.
| Mattha Busby | The Guardian | 2023-10-26
British restoration projects report recoveries of dormice, butterflies, birds, and other threatened species as habitat quality and connectivity improve.
| Phoebe Weston | The Guardian | 2023-08-26
Disputes over unmown grass and vegetation in British towns illustrate how public perceptions of tidiness can collide with attempts to increase urban biodiversity.
| Patrick Barkham | The Guardian | 2023-06-13
Isabella Tree and Charlie Burrell argue that some principles learned at Knepp can be applied at scales ranging from farms to small gardens.
| Petro Kotzé | Mongabay | 2023-06-13
Recovering lion populations in parts of Africa show how restoring prey, reconnecting protected areas, and managing large landscape mosaics can eventually allow apex predators to return.
| Tom Ambrose | The Guardian | 2023-03-21
A pair of Eurasian beavers is prepared for introduction in west London, testing whether ecosystem engineers can coexist with people in a densely urban environment.
| Damian Carrington | The Guardian | 2023-03-18
Pigs, ponies, cattle, and bison are used as ecosystem engineers at Wilder Blean to create a more structurally diverse woodland.
| Oregon State University | ScienceDaily | 2022-08-09
Scientists propose restoring wolves and beavers while reducing livestock grazing across a network of western U.S. federal lands.
| Phoebe Weston | The Guardian | 2022-07-29
A multimillion-pound grant supports expansion of European rewilding landscapes and a new fund for wildlife reintroductions.
| George Monbiot | The Guardian | 2020-02-25
This long-form feature explores tensions between intensive agriculture, food production, changing farm subsidies, land abandonment, and rewilding in Britain.
| Jason G. Goldman | Smithsonian Magazine | 2018
The possibility of moving threatened species into cities raises questions about assisted migration, urban rewilding, habitat restoration, and adapting conservation to climate change.
| Caroline Fraser | Yale Environment 360 | 2010-02-11
An early overview describes rewilding around three major ideas: large protected cores, ecological corridors, and recovery of top predators.
