WHAT IS REWILDING? Basically, it’s the attempt to recreate the natural ecological systems that once covered our landscapes—woods, rivers, wetlands—and trusting nature to look after itself, perhaps with some help at the start to fix the most broken pieces.
Many rewilding projects are large in scale, to allow nature to really do its stuff without interference and pollution from us. It is about vast estates and landscapes, large herbivores or carnivores and huge decisions made by distant landowners or institutions. These are invaluable. But it is