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Rewilding
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A common misconception is that rewilding seeks to return land to an idealised previous ecological state. In reality it would never be possible to go back in time to some arbitrarily chosen baseline - and it would be arbitrary, because healthy living systems are always changing naturally over time, even if that's often difficult for us to perceive. The real objective is not to go back to the past, but forward: to complex, vibrant ecosystems that actually work by themselves, and are therefore more
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― An Irish Atlantic Rainforest: A Personal Journey into the Magic of Rewilding
― An Irish Atlantic Rainforest: A Personal Journey into the Magic of Rewilding
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Naysayers at their polite best chided the rewilders for romanticizing the past; at their sniping worst, for tempting a 'Jurassic Park' disaster. To these the rewilders quietly voiced a sad and stinging reply. The most dangerous experiment is already underway. The future most to be feared is the one now dictated by the status quo. In vanquishing our most fearsome beasts from the modern world, we have released worse monsters from the compound. They come in disarmingly meek and insidious forms, in
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― Where the Wild Things Were: Life, Death, and Ecological Wreckage in a Land of Vanishing Predators
― Where the Wild Things Were: Life, Death, and Ecological Wreckage in a Land of Vanishing Predators
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