rewilding the world

If you had told me at the beginning of 2020 that, within a few short months, people would disappear from our streets and be replaced by wild animals, I’d have been intrigued by the concept but ultimately concerned for your sanity. I’d have been the fool, because here we are. As our global community isolates to stop the spread COVID-19, we’re indeed seeing urban settings looking a little wilder, with animals slowly edging back to areas previously only claimed by humans.

While these incongruous appearances of our wildlife are heartwarming, locking down all of humankind is unrealistic and undesirable. However, it has displayed that when given space to breathe, the natural world, “It’s about abandoning the Biblical doctrine of dominion which has governed our relationship with the natural world.” Rewilding is not simply a nature-lover’s pipe dream – there’s plenty of evidence from around the world that shows how reintroducing species is transforming the face, and future, of conservation.