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Rewilding (conservation biology)

Index Rewilding (conservation biology)

Rewilding is large-scale conservation aimed at restoring and protecting natural processes and core wilderness areas, providing connectivity between such areas, and protecting or reintroducing apex predators and keystone species. [1]

48 relations: Aarhus, Alladale Wilderness Reserve, Apex predator, Aurochs, Ballycroy National Park, Dunwich Forest, Ennerdale, Cumbria, Evolutionary anachronism, Feral (Monbiot book), Gansbaai, Geding-Kasted Mose, Geography of Sussex, George Monbiot, Georgism, Hemeroby, Involuntary park, Kalamos Island biological field station, Knepp Castle, Li Quan (wildlife conservationist), Maja and Reuben Fowkes, Masanobu Fukuoka, Mauro Galetti, Milovice Nature Reserve, Northeast African cheetah, Oostvaardersplassen, Peter Taylor (environmentalist), Pillar and Ennerdale Fells, Pleistocene Park, Pleistocene rewilding, Reed Noss, Reforestation, Restoration ecology, Revegetation, Rewilding, Rewilding Britain, Rewilding Europe, River Liza, Save China's Tigers, Siberian Tiger Introduction Project, Sir Charles Burrell, 10th Baronet, Southern African cheetah, Species reintroduction, Tiger, Wildlands Network, Wildlife crossing, Wildlife management, Willie Smits, Wood Creek.

Aarhus

Aarhus (officially spelled Århus from 1948 until 31 December 2010) is the second-largest city in Denmark and the seat of Aarhus municipality.

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Alladale Wilderness Reserve

Alladale Wilderness Reserve is a privately owned estate in the Caledonian Forest in Sutherland, in the Scottish Highlands.

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Apex predator

An apex predator, also known as an alpha predator or top predator, is a predator at the top of a food chain, with no natural predators.

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Aurochs

The aurochs (or; pl. aurochs, or rarely aurochsen, aurochses), also known as urus or ure (Bos primigenius), is an extinct species of large wild cattle that inhabited Europe, Asia, and North Africa.

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Ballycroy National Park

Ballycroy National Park (Irish: Páirc Náisiúnta Bhaile Chruaich) is located in the Owenduff/Nephin Mountains area of the Barony of Erris in northwest County Mayo, Ireland.

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Dunwich Forest

Dunwich Forest is an area of forest and lowland heath around north-east of the village of Dunwich in the English county of Suffolk.

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Ennerdale, Cumbria

Ennerdale is a valley in Cumbria, England.

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Evolutionary anachronism

Evolutionary anachronism is a concept in evolutionary biology, named by Connie C. Barlow in her book The Ghosts of Evolution (2000),Barlow, Connie C. (2000).

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Feral (Monbiot book)

Feral is a book about rewilding by the British environmentalist George Monbiot.

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Gansbaai

(Dutch/Afrikaans for "bay of geese," sometimes referred to as Gans Bay or Gangs Bay) is a fishing town and popular tourist destination in the Overberg District Municipality, Western Cape, South Africa.

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Geding-Kasted Mose

Geding-Kasted Mose is a bog about 7 kilometers north-west of Aarhus, in the western section of the Egå river valley though which the river Egå runs.

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Geography of Sussex

Sussex is a historic county and cultural region in the south of England corresponding roughly in area to the ancient Kingdom of Sussex.

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George Monbiot

George Joshua Richard Monbiot (born 27 January 1963) is a British writer known for his environmental, political activism.

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Georgism

Georgism, also called geoism and single tax (archaic), is an economic philosophy holding that, while people should own the value they produce themselves, economic value derived from land (including natural resources and natural opportunities) should belong equally to all members of society.

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Hemeroby

Hemeroby, or hemerochora is a term used in botanical and ecological sciences.

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Involuntary park

Involuntary park is a neologism coined by science fiction author and environmentalist Bruce Sterling to describe previously inhabited areas that for environmental, economic, or political reasons have, in Sterling's words, "lost their value for technological instrumentalism" and been allowed to return to an overgrown, feral state.

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Kalamos Island biological field station

The Kalamos Island biological field station is a research station located in the island Kalamos, in the Ionian Sea, in Western Greece.

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Knepp Castle

The medieval Knepp Castle is to the west of the village of West Grinstead, West Sussex, England near the River Adur and the A24.

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Li Quan (wildlife conservationist)

Li Quan (全莉) is a Beijing-born tiger and wildlife conservationist who lives in London.

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Maja and Reuben Fowkes

Maja and Reuben Fowkes are curators and art historians whose work focuses on the theory and aesthetics of East European art from the art production of the socialist era to contemporary artistic practices.

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Masanobu Fukuoka

was a Japanese farmer and philosopher celebrated for his natural farming and re-vegetation of desertified lands.

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Mauro Galetti

Mauro Galetti.

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Milovice Nature Reserve

The Milovice nature reserve (Přírodní rezervace Milovice) is a nature reserve next to towns Milovice and Benátky nad Jizerou in the Nymburk District, Central Bohemian Region, Czech Republic.

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Northeast African cheetah

The Northeast African cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus soemmeringii) is a cheetah subspecies occurring in Northeast Africa.

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Oostvaardersplassen

The Oostvaardersplassen is a nature reserve in the Netherlands, which is managed by the State Forestry Service.

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Peter Taylor (environmentalist)

Peter Taylor (born 24 January 1948) is a UK environmentalist with a long track record of public activism and scholarship on issues ranging from nuclear safety, ocean pollution, biodiversity strategies, renewable energy and climate change.

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Pillar and Ennerdale Fells

Pillar and Ennerdale Fells is a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) in Ennerdale, Cumbria, England.

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Pleistocene Park

Pleistocene Park (Плейстоценовый парк) is a nature reserve on the Kolyma River south of Chersky in the Sakha Republic, Russia, in northeastern Siberia, where an attempt is being made to recreate the northern subarctic steppe grassland ecosystem that flourished in the area during the last glacial period.

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Pleistocene rewilding

Pleistocene rewilding is the advocacy of the reintroduction of descendants of Pleistocene megafauna, or their close ecological equivalents.

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Reed Noss

Reed F. Noss (born 23 June 1952), a Conservation Biologist since the beginning of the field in the early 1980s, is a writer, photographer, and speaker, retired in 2017 as Provost's Distinguished Research Professor, Pegasus Professor, and Davis-Shine Professor at the University of Central Florida.

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Reforestation

Reforestation is the natural or intentional restocking of existing forests and woodlands (forestation) that have been depleted, usually through deforestation.

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Restoration ecology

Restoration ecology is the scientific study supporting the practice of ecological restoration, which is the practice of renewing and restoring degraded, damaged, or destroyed ecosystems and habitats in the environment by active human intervention and action.

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Revegetation

Revegetation is the process of replanting and rebuilding the soil of disturbed land.

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Rewilding

Rewilding may refer to.

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Rewilding Britain

Rewilding Britain is an organization founded in 2015 that aims to promote the rewilding of Great Britain.

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Rewilding Europe

Rewilding Europe is a non-profit organisation based in Nijmegen, Netherlands, working to create rewilded landscapes in at least 10 different regions across Europe.

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River Liza

The River Liza flows through Ennerdale, a glacial valley in Cumbria, England.

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Save China's Tigers

Save China's Tigers (SCT) is an international charitable foundation based in Hong Kong, the United States, and the United Kingdom (Office in London) which aims to save the big cats of China from extinction.

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Siberian Tiger Introduction Project

The Siberian Tiger Introduction Project involves reestablishing populations of the Siberian tiger (Panthera tigris alatica), also known as the Amur tiger, in their former range and also expanding their range by introducing them as replacements of their genetically similar relative, the extinct Caspian tiger (Panthera tigris virgata), which inhabited Central and Western Asia.

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Sir Charles Burrell, 10th Baronet

Sir Charles Raymond Burrell, 10th Baronet (born 27 August 1962) is an English landowner and conservationist.

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Southern African cheetah

The South African cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus jubatus), also known as the Namibian cheetah, is the most numerous and the nominate cheetah subspecies native to Southern Africa.

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Species reintroduction

Species reintroduction is the deliberate release of a species into the wild, from captivity or other areas where the organism is capable of survival.

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Tiger

The tiger (Panthera tigris) is the largest cat species, most recognizable for its pattern of dark vertical stripes on reddish-orange fur with a lighter underside.

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Wildlands Network

The Wildlands Network (formerly known as “Wildlands Project) was created in 1991 to stem the tide of species extinctions that was being recorded across North America.

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Wildlife crossing

Wildlife crossings are structures that allow animals to cross human-made barriers safely.

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Wildlife management

Wildlife management attempts to balance the needs of wildlife with the needs of people using the best available science.

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Willie Smits

Willie Smits (born February 22, 1957, in Weurt, Gelderland, the Netherlands) is a trained forester, a microbiologist, conservationist, animal rights activist, wilderness engineer and social entrepreneur.

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Wood Creek

Wood Creek in Central New York State flows westward from the city of Rome, New York to Oneida Lake.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rewilding_(conservation_biology)

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