What is the concept of rewilding?

Rewilding is a progressive approach to conservation. It’s about letting nature take care of itself, enabling natural processes to shape land and sea, repair damaged ecosystems and restore degraded landscapes. Through rewilding, wildlife’s natural rhythms create wilder, more biodiverse habitats.

What can rewilding introduce?

Rather than the reintroduction of a species that recently disappeared from the area, Pleistocene rewilding potentially involves introducing a completely foreign species to an ecosystem. It seeks to restore missing or dysfunctional processes and ecosystem functions by reintroducing current descendants of lost species.

How does rewilding help biodiversity?

Biodiversity: rewilding gives nature a chance to reestablish its natural state of rich abundance and biodiversity. Rewilding, restoring native vegetation and regenerating soil can sequester large amounts of carbon, playing a pivotal role in any country’s decarbonisation plan.

Which is the best definition of rewilding?

Definition of rewilding. : the planned reintroduction of a plant or animal species and especially a keystone species or apex predator (such as the gray wolf or lynx) into a habitat from which it has disappeared (as from hunting or habitat destruction) in an effort to increase biodiversity and restore the health of an ecosystem.

Why do we need to rewild the world?

We must take action. Nature has the power to heal itself and to heal us, if we let it. That’s what rewilding is all about; restoring ecosystems to the point where nature can take care of itself, and restoring our relationship with the natural world. Reconnecting with what matters. Rewilding is hope for the future.

Why is rewilding important to the conservation movement?

Rewilding is the most exciting and promising conservation strategy to slow down or halt the 6th mass extinction of species. It also has tremendous potential for climate change mitigation and has had documented successes in restoring biodiversity and ecosystem processes.

What is the difference between translocation and rewilding?

Translocation rewilding is a more active approach, also involving the reintroduction of species, but the species it focuses on reintroducing are of more recent origin. It seeks to restore missing or dysfunctional processes and ecosystem functions by reintroducing current descendants of lost species.