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  • You get suited up with the Bleex, and with your night vision goggles, satellite navigation systems and weaponized hoe, you set about re-wilding urban concrete wastelands.

    Elastic 2008

  • The Wikipedia page also mentions other re-wilding sites; such as in Siberia, where scientists hope to recreate the mixed grassland and woods pre-human Siberia was known for.

    Fantastic Settings marycatelli 2010

  • In the Scottish Highlands, much of which Kohn anticipates will be pedestrianised, changes to fauna will be more dramatic, following closely managed "re-wilding" initiatives, which will see the reintroduction of beavers to rivers and lochs, and wolves and lynxes to the forests, where they will stabilise the deer population.

    Turned Out Nice: How the British Isles Will Change as the World Heats Up by Marek Kohn 2010

  • You get suited up with the Bleex, and with your night vision goggles, satellite navigation systems and weaponized hoe, you set about re-wilding urban concrete wastelands.

    The Bleex, or: Intergalactic planetary landscape architect, Part II 2006

  • You get suited up with the Bleex, and with your night vision goggles, satellite navigation systems and weaponized hoe, you set about re-wilding urban concrete wastelands.

    Archive 2006-01-01 2006

  • Did you see the Pleistocene re-wilding paper by Donlan et al. a few years ago.

    Assisted colonization? Let’s hope that will not be our last hope AYDIN 2008

  • You get suited up with the Bleex, and with your night vision goggles, satellite navigation systems and weaponized hoe, you set about re-wilding urban concrete wastelands.

    Archive 2008-03-01 2008

  • This 'Pleistocene re-wilding' would be achieved through a series of carefully managed ecosystem manipulations using closely related species as proxies for extinct large vertebrates, and would change the underlying premise of conservation biology from managing extinction to actively restoring natural processes.

    The Pleistocene Park 2005

  • While others go on and on about phytoremediation and brownfield parks and research parks and re-wilding the mine as a design program, Pruned will instead be producing a showcase extravangaza to outdo all past and future Olympic Games opening ceremonies.

    Archive 2005-12-01 2005

  • This 'Pleistocene re-wilding' would be achieved through a series of carefully managed ecosystem manipulations using closely related species as proxies for extinct large vertebrates, and would change the underlying premise of conservation biology from managing extinction to actively restoring natural processes.

    Archive 2005-12-01 2005

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