Despite the backlash in recent years (in Ireland anyway!), rewilding is now well established in academic and practical responses to the biodiversity crisis.
w'thanks to @pettorelli.bsky.social & @landethics.bsky.social for their input to this article #rewidling
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
w'thanks to @pettorelli.bsky.social & @landethics.bsky.social for their input to this article #rewidling
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
Rewilding: A meaningful response to tackling the biodiversity crisis
The concept is an eco-centric approach which is nature-led and human-enabled
www.irishtimes.com
January 16, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Despite the backlash in recent years (in Ireland anyway!), rewilding is now well established in academic and practical responses to the biodiversity crisis.
w'thanks to @pettorelli.bsky.social & @landethics.bsky.social for their input to this article #rewidling
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
w'thanks to @pettorelli.bsky.social & @landethics.bsky.social for their input to this article #rewidling
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
New study confirms some of my 'mantras': shifts to plant-based diets, rewidling/reforesting, active transport, travel with no/less flying & ICE driving all bring human & planetary health cobenefits & are far more impactful for climate mitigation than CCS & nuclear ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/10.1289/...
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ehp.niehs.nih.gov
December 17, 2024 at 12:47 PM
New study confirms some of my 'mantras': shifts to plant-based diets, rewidling/reforesting, active transport, travel with no/less flying & ICE driving all bring human & planetary health cobenefits & are far more impactful for climate mitigation than CCS & nuclear ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/10.1289/...
Beavers could do that for us, yet another rewidling benefit of the magical beaver-that-solves-all-problems (put it on the tenner!)
March 12, 2026 at 11:04 AM
Beavers could do that for us, yet another rewidling benefit of the magical beaver-that-solves-all-problems (put it on the tenner!)
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November 29, 2024 at 8:27 PM
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Feeding crops to animals is inefficient and thus bad for the environment & food security, but feeding forage at scale is bad for the climate (www.theguardian.com/environment/...) and ignores the opportunity costs of the land used for forage (which could be used for crops, biomass, rewidling, etc.)
The most damaging farm products? Organic, pasture-fed beef and lamb
Analysis: You may be amazed by that answer, but the area of land used for grazing is vast compared with the meat and milk produced
www.theguardian.com
October 18, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Feeding crops to animals is inefficient and thus bad for the environment & food security, but feeding forage at scale is bad for the climate (www.theguardian.com/environment/...) and ignores the opportunity costs of the land used for forage (which could be used for crops, biomass, rewidling, etc.)
This is where I have a problem with "rewidling". This isn't rewilding. It is creating a novel ecosystem with a species that never existed in the area (ever) backed up by only an assumption that it would fill the same niche to achieve an unrelated goal.
A project in Spain is bringing Przewalski’s horse to a sparsely populated region to help stem out-of-control fires and boost the local economy.
Rewilding Spain is attempting to rebuild ecological roles in the region to boost biodiversity and mitigate fire outbreaks.
Rewilding Spain is attempting to rebuild ecological roles in the region to boost biodiversity and mitigate fire outbreaks.
Rewilding project aims to restore resilience to fire-prone Spain via wildlife
Some 30,000 years ago, Stone Age people decorated a cave, today known as Cueva de los Casares, in central Spain with pictures of mating humans (most famously), geometric shapes, and animals. The most…
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August 31, 2025 at 11:11 AM
This is where I have a problem with "rewidling". This isn't rewilding. It is creating a novel ecosystem with a species that never existed in the area (ever) backed up by only an assumption that it would fill the same niche to achieve an unrelated goal.
Polly, I loved this piece but can you say more about your dislike of the term rewilded - I'd not heard of it being used like that before, I see it as a positive thing. My substack is called 'rewidling my life' so I'm now worried I'm giving the wrong impression!
August 30, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Polly, I loved this piece but can you say more about your dislike of the term rewilded - I'd not heard of it being used like that before, I see it as a positive thing. My substack is called 'rewidling my life' so I'm now worried I'm giving the wrong impression!
inspired by all this I asked the dumb machine and: a) I hate this article idea, it's shit; b) rewilding isn't a medievalist but a paleolithic fantasy; c) but if you know AFTER LONDON, well, there's an old weird book that does *both* rewidling and medievalism and I *could* write about that, crap.
April 30, 2025 at 9:13 PM
inspired by all this I asked the dumb machine and: a) I hate this article idea, it's shit; b) rewilding isn't a medievalist but a paleolithic fantasy; c) but if you know AFTER LONDON, well, there's an old weird book that does *both* rewidling and medievalism and I *could* write about that, crap.
Did you know?
Bumblebee population increases 116 times over in 'remarkable' Scotland rewilding project."
Read that again: **116** times.
SCOTLAND's REWIDLING PROJECT.
Bumblebee population increases 116 times over in 'remarkable' Scotland rewilding project."
Read that again: **116** times.
SCOTLAND's REWIDLING PROJECT.
November 29, 2024 at 10:39 PM
Did you know?
Bumblebee population increases 116 times over in 'remarkable' Scotland rewilding project."
Read that again: **116** times.
SCOTLAND's REWIDLING PROJECT.
Bumblebee population increases 116 times over in 'remarkable' Scotland rewilding project."
Read that again: **116** times.
SCOTLAND's REWIDLING PROJECT.