Air pollution. Traffic. Animals dying. Habitat loss. All of these issues are side effects of urbanization, according to the United Nations. But, with a new rewilding solution that is being tested in ...

In recent years, the concept of "rewilding" has risen to prominence in the conservation community, but to date, most efforts have been concentrated on large protected areas far from cities—and ...

Rewilding is often portrayed as being no different to land abandonment. But the case of Italy’s Abruzzo region shows this to be far from reality The unique Marsican brown bear, pictured in a mural in ...

Up to a quarter of Europe could be suitable for rewilding, a new analysis has revealed. Restoring wilderness in areas of Scotland, Scandinavia and Spain would help to raise the continent's ...

Three books that grapple with the role of humans in restoring natural ecosystems. In Colombia, there’s a national debate about what to do with Pablo Escobar’s feral “cocaine hippos.” To many, the 160 ...

A few hundred feet from a McDonalds’ and a strip mall, sandwiched between busy and polluted roads, is a lush and thriving ...

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Europe's abandoned farmlands could find new life through rewilding, a movement to restore ravaged landscapes to their wilderness before human intervention. A quarter of the European continent, 117 ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. France’s largest rewilding project is underway in the Dauphiné Alps, in the south of the country. In the 18 th century, much of the region was ...

"Rewilding is largely a matter of humans getting out of the way and letting nature take charge."–Graham Lawton Source: Mikhail Nilov/Pexels It’s common knowledge that we are losing species and ...