rewilding

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English

Noun

rewilding (usually uncountable, plural rewildings)

  1. (ecology) The act of restoring a natural area to its former wild state, especially by repopulating it with animals that have been extirpated.
    • 2004 July, Dave Foreman, Rewilding North America, Island Press, →ISBN, page 134:
      For rewilding North America, we need to find or restore some of the cogs and wheels we've already tossed into the dust bin.
    • 2020 October 13, Patrick Barkham, “How maverick rewilders are trying to turn back the tide of extinction”, in The Guardian‎, retrieved 2020-11-09:
      The beaver was hunted to extinction in Britain more than three centuries ago, but is today the rewilding movement’s pin-up.
    • 2022 March 23, Paul Bigland, “HS2 is just 'passing through'”, in RAIL, number 953, page 40:
      There's a colossal amount of tree planting, rewilding and other work going on to ensure that HS2 adds more to the environment than it takes away.

Descendants

  • → Dutch: herwildering (calque)

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Verb

rewilding

  1. present participle and gerund of rewild

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