Rewild

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. ❋ Kateelliott (2007)

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. ❋ Unknown (2008)

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. ❋ Unknown (2009)

One amateur group, the Torreya Guardians, are attempting to "rewild" the endangered Florida torreya, a conifer tree. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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 (2011)

It'll feel good to rewild on a personal level because compassion and empathy are very contagious. ❋ Marc Bekoff (2011)

We must rewild our hearts and build corridors of compassion and coexistence. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He disapproved of suggestions to rewild nonnative species & ndash; for example, relocating elephants and rhinos to the American plains. ❋ AP (2010)

The project to save the big Asian cats on African soil aims to breed and "rewild" the critters so they can be reintroduced to their natural habitat and historic range in China. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Vacariu is the western director of the Wildlands Project, the conservation group spearheading the drive to rewild North America -- to reconnect remaining wildernesses (parks, refuges, national forests, and local land trust holdings) through corridors, on a continentwide scale. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Realistically we can't rewild every island in the world and even if we did, shipping would soon bring some of the problem species back - rats and mice for example. ❋ Unknown (2008)

What we can do (and are doing) is rewild small unpopulated islands and use these as preserves to maintain species whilst we try to sort out the bigger issues. ❋ Unknown (2008)

It seemed an obvious step to expand the idea and rewild the whole estate, if we could. " ❋ Unknown (2009)