rewilding
English
Noun
rewilding (uncountable)
- (ecology) Large-scale conservation aimed at restoring and protecting natural processes and core wilderness areas.
- 2004 July 1, Dave Foreman, Rewilding North America, Island Press, →ISBN, page 134:
- For rewilding North America, we need to find or restore some of the cogs and wheels we've already tossed into the dust bin.
- 2020 October 13, Patrick Barkham, “How maverick rewilders are trying to turn back the tide of extinction”, in The Guardian, retrieved 2020-11-09:
- The beaver was hunted to extinction in Britain more than three centuries ago, but is today the rewilding movement’s pin-up.
- 2022 March 23, Paul Bigland, “HS2 is just 'passing through'”, in RAIL, number 953, page 40:
- There's a colossal amount of tree planting, rewilding and other work going on to ensure that HS2 adds more to the environment than it takes away.
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Translations
large-scale conservation
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Verb
rewilding
- present participle of rewild
Further reading
rewilding (conservation biology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- weirdling, wildering