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- verb To return an area to a more
wild state, especially torepopulate it withwild animals .
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Examples
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Nothing less than the ability to "rewild" as much of the countryside as we want, by taking the burden of agricultural production out of the continental ecosystem.
EcoGeek & Skiffy Writer Karl Schroeder Interviewed at WorldChanging kateelliott 2007
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Elephant for the mammoth Cheetah for the New World cheetah Przewalski's horse for the tarpan In one proposal to "rewild" North America, Asian and African elephants would play the ecological role of the now-extinct Columbian mammoth.
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Under a European directive to look at restoring historical species - and a philosophical desire from conservationists to "rewild" landscapes "destroyed by the hand of man" - the beaver has been returned to 24 countries.
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Under a European directive to look at restoring historical species - and a philosophical desire from conservationists to "rewild" landscapes "destroyed by the hand of man" - the beaver has been returned to 24 countries.
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Under a European directive to look at restoring historical species - and a philosophical desire from conservationists to "rewild" landscapes "destroyed by the hand of man" - the beaver has been returned to 24 countries.
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One amateur group, the Torreya Guardians, are attempting to "rewild" the endangered Florida torreya, a conifer tree.
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Under a European directive to look at restoring historical species - and a philosophical desire from conservationists to "rewild" landscapes "destroyed by the hand of man" - the beaver has been returned to 24 countries.
British Blogs 2009
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Regardless of scale, ranging from huge areas encompassing a wide variety of habitats that need to be reconnected or that need to be protected to personal interactions with animals and habitats, the need to rewild and reconnect and to build or maintain links centers on the fact that there has been extensive isolation and fragmentation "out there" in nature, between ourselves and Mother nature, and within ourselves.
Marc Bekoff: Rewilding Our Hearts: Maintaining Hope and Faith in Trying Times Marc Bekoff 2011
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Regardless of scale, ranging from huge areas encompassing a wide variety of habitats that need to be reconnected or that need to be protected to personal interactions with animals and habitats, the need to rewild and reconnect and to build or maintain links centers on the fact that there has been extensive isolation and fragmentation "out there" in nature, between ourselves and Mother nature, and within ourselves.
Marc Bekoff: Rewilding Our Hearts: Maintaining Hope and Faith in Trying Times Marc Bekoff 2011
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Regardless of scale, ranging from huge areas encompassing a wide variety of habitats that need to be reconnected or that need to be protected to personal interactions with animals and habitats, the need to rewild and reconnect and to build or maintain links centers on the fact that there has been extensive isolation and fragmentation "out there" in nature, between ourselves and Mother nature, and within ourselves.
Marc Bekoff: Rewilding Our Hearts: Maintaining Hope and Faith in Trying Times Marc Bekoff 2011
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