rewilding

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 9 November 2020:

     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)

Translations

large-scale conservation

Chinese: Mandarin: 再野化 (zàiyěhuà) Dutch: herwildering f Finnish: villiinnytys French: réensauvagement (fr) m German: Renaturierung (de) f Spanish: resilvestración f Swedish: återförvildande (sv) n Vietnamese: tái hoang dã

Verb

rewilding

1. present participle and gerund of rewild

Further reading

• rewilding (conservation biology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• weirdling, wildering