Rewilding may refer to:
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Rewilding (conservation biology)
Rewilding, or re-wilding, activities are conservation efforts aimed at restoring and protecting natural processes and wilderness areas. Rewilding is a form of ecological restoration
Restoration ecology is the scientific study supporting th ...
, the return of habitats to a natural state
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Rewilding Europe, a programme to do so in Europe
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Pleistocene rewilding
Pleistocene rewilding is the advocacy of the reintroduction of extant Pleistocene megafauna, or the close ecological equivalents of extinct megafauna. It is an extension of the conservation practice of rewilding, which involves reintroducing sp ...
, a form of species reintroduction
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Rewilding Institute, an organization concerned with the integration of traditional wildlife and wildlands conservation
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Rewilding (anarchism)
Rewilding means to return to a more wild or natural state; it is the process of undoing domestication. The term emerged from green anarchism and anarcho-primitivism. The central argument is that the majority of humans have been "civilized" or "d ...
, the reversal of human "domestication"
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Rewilding (horse), a thoroughbred racehorse
See also
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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. The goal of species reintroduction is to establish a healthy, genetically diverse, self-sustainin ...
, the deliberate release of a species into the wild
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