What is Rewilding?
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"To be effective, conservation must be guided by a vision that is bold, scientifically credible, practically achievable, and hopeful." -Dave Foreman
Rewilding is the process of protecting and expanding areas of strong biodiversity to protect keystone or umbrella species so that all other flora and fauna those species depend upon are also protected with enough habitat to sustain the network.
Where to learn about Rewilding:
The Rewilding Institute headed by Dave Foreman is a good place to start. With Fellows like Michael Soule, an originator of Conservation Biology, Brian Miller, conservation biologist for the Denver Zoological Foundation, Dave Parsons, a key driver in the Mexican Wolf Reintroduction Program in the Southwest, and Dave Maehr an Aldo Leopold Leadership Program fellow, Ocelot Recovery Team co-leader for the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, chair of The Wildlife Society's Certification Review Board, a member of the Border Cats Working Group, and the Eastern Cougar Foundation's board of directors, these leaders are pointing the way to conservation's future.
Rewilding News Blog
- Free Paul Watson!
Captain Watson has been in a German prison since Sunday and is in danger of being extradited to Costa Rica where we fear for his safety from the Shark Fin Mafia and an unfair, politically motivated trial! When we last wrote you, we had only 15 hours to make our case to the German Federal [...] - 4 days ago
- Audubon NPR-A Action Alert – Please Respond!
Please take the time to respond to this recent Action Alert from the National Audubon Society: Audubon Advisory May 11, 2012 Vol 2012 Issue 5 B is for Birds: Help Protect Special Areas of the Western Arctic The National Petroleum Reserve – Alaska encompasses an immense and spectacular Arctic ecosystem on Alaska’s North Slope – [...] - 7 days ago
- Urgent Action Needed: Sportsmen’s Heritage Act Will Essentially Repeal the Wilderness Act
We just received this message from our friends at Wilderness Watch and hope you will read about the bill and take immediate action to oppose it: Dear friends of Wilderness, I have been a wilderness activist for more than 30 years. Never in that time has a bill been introduced—let alone pass in the House of [...] - 11 days ago
- Hungry Dragon
COMMENT from PROFESSOR WILLIAM LAURANCE William Laurance is a Distinguished Research Professor and Australian Laureate at James Cook University in Cairns, Queensland. He studies tropical forests across the planet. Australian Geographic - May – June 2012, p 118-119 HUNGRY DRAGON China has become a black hole for the world’s timber, much of it harvested illegally. Consumers should [...] - 12 days ago
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I would recommend large bears, mountain lions and certainly wolves in your garden to keep down the rabbit population. :)
Rick Lomas 4 years ago
Jack, you never cease to amaze me by what you are into! I'm just about to buy my chalet here in The French Alps, so it will be the first ever time I will have ever had - a garden! So how should we work it? What beasties are going to live in my garden? I reckon whoever lives there can stay!
BTW there's some photos here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ricklomas/sets/721576