rewild

English

re- +‎ wild

rewild (third-person singular simple present rewilds, present participle rewilding, simple past and past participle rewilded)

(ecology) To return an area to a more wild state, especially to repopulate it with wild animals.
- 2005, Paul Schultz Martin, Twilight of the Mammoths: Ice Age Extinctions and the Rewilding of America, University of California Press, →ISBN, page XIII:
  Told in the form of a personal journey, Paul Martin's book covers his own boyhood bird-watching, graduate work in evolutionary biology, and a distinguished academic career; it culminates in a daring plan to truly rewild North America.
- 2016 January 26, John Carey, “Core Concept: Rewilding”, in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America‎, DOI:10.1073/pnas.1522151112, pages 806–808:
  Some scientists and others now argue that we should be bringing some of those ghosts back, part of a controversial movement to “rewild” parts of Europe and North America, whether by reintroducing extant species, reviving extinct ones, or attempting to reconstruct ecosystems.

Conjugation of rewild

to return an area to a wilder state