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Rewilding

By giving space to nature and natural processes, ecosystems can recover. Wageningen scientists are investigating the opportunities for the rewilding of areas in the Netherlands and Europe. This can be done, for example, by giving more space to rivers, improving connections between land and water, or returning large herbivores and predators to ecosystems. Rewilding can thus contribute to improved biodiversity and more wildlife, and offer solutions for the effects of climate change, such as reducing the risk of floods and wildfires.

Since 2020, Wageningen has the first special chair in Rewilding Ecology in Europe. The chair and the research have been made possible in part by NIOO-KNAW and Rewilding Europe.

News about rewilding

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  26 November 2020

  Rewilding nature in the Netherlands and Europe

  - Nature is more than just living plants and animals. Dispersing sand or overflowing rivers create habitats for species that thrive in these specific...
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  23 April 2020

  Liesbeth Bakker appointed as Special Professor Rewilding Ecology in Wageningen

  - The Executive Board of Wageningen University & Research has appointed Dr Liesbeth Bakker as special professor of Rewilding Ecology. Her...
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  26 June 2014

  Successful KIGO European Nature Entrepreneurship concludes with symposium in Velp

  - The Cultural Geography group collaborated in a successful KIGO project on European Nature Entrepreneurship together with Van Hall Larenstein...
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  08 March 2012

  Symposium The Business of Nature Conservation inspires European Wilderness

  - On thursday the 8th of March the symposium ‘The Business of Nature Conservation, What Europe can learn from Africa’ took place at the...

Research on rewilding

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  Wild Experiments

  The project examined the history, politics and geographies of rewilding, which is emerging as a new paradigm for wildlife conservation. It focused on...

Publications about rewilding

• Fragmentation and Translocation Distort the Genetic Landscape of Ungulates : Red Deer in the Netherlands

  Jong, Joost F. de , Hooft, Pim van , Megens, Hendrik Jan , Crooijmans, Richard P.M.A. , Groot, Gerard Arjen de , Pemberton, Josephine M. , Huisman, Jisca , Bartoš, Luděk , Iacolina, Laura , Wieren, Sip E. van , Ydenberg, Ronald C. , Prins, Herbert H.T. (2020) Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 8 (2020). - ISSN 2296-701X

• ‘Nature is quite capable of taking care of itself’: ‘Rewilding: an action plan for making the landscape more natural’

  Bakker, Liesbeth (2020) "De natuur kan heel goed voor zichzelf zorgen": Rewilding : een stappenplan naar wilder en natuurlijker, Resource jrg. 15 nr. 6 p. 18-19, 2020-11-27, https://edepot.wur.nl/536102;‘Nature is quite capable of taking care of itself’: ‘Rewilding: an action plan for making the landscape more natural’, Resource jrg. 15 nr. 6 p. 18-19, 2020-11-26, https://edepot.wur.nl/536198

• Naturally selected Varroa resilient honeybees act as resource for re-wilding

  Blacquiere, T. , Panziera, Delphine (2020) Natural Bee Husbandry 2020 (2020)15. - p. 28 - 31.

• Introducing rewilding to restoration to expand the conservation effort: a response to Hayward et al.

  Anderson, Robert M. , Buitenwerf, Robert , Driessen, Clemens , Genes, Luísa , Lorimer, Jamie , Svenning, Jens Christian (2019) Biodiversity and Conservation 28 (2019)13. - ISSN 0960-3115 - p. 3691 - 3693.

• Conflicts forever : Understanding the role of conflicts in conservation tourism

  Pellis, Arjaan (2019) Wageningen University. Promotor(en): V.R. van der Duim, co-promotor(en): M. Duineveld. - Wageningen : Wageningen University - ISBN 9789463439503 - p.

• Reality effects of conflict avoidance in rewilding and ecotourism practices–the case of Western Iberia

  Pellis, Arjaan (2019) Journal of Ecotourism 18 (2019)4. - ISSN 1472-4049 - p. 316 - 331.

• Rewilding Hony bees in the Netherlands.

  Blacquiere, Tjeerd (2018)

• Risks and opportunities of trophic rewilding for arthropod communities

  Klink, Roel van , WallisDeVries, Michiel F. (2018) Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. Biological sciences 373 (2018)1761. - ISSN 0962-8436 - 8 p.

• Naya is the 1st known wolf in Belgium in over 100 years — and she may be looking for a mate

  Jansman, H.A.H. (2018) Naya is the 1st known wolf in Belgium in over 100 years — and she may be looking for a mate , CBC radio, 2018-01-25, https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-wednesday-edition-1.4501604/naya-is-the-1st-known-wolf-in-belgium-in-over-100-years-and-she-may-be-looking-for-a-mate-1.4501606

• The superior effect of nature based solutions in land management for enhancing ecosystem services

  Keesstra, Saskia , Nunes, Joao P. , Novara, Agata , Finger, David , Avelar, David , Kalantari, Zahra , Cerdà, Artemi (2018) Science of the Total Environment 610-611 (2018). - ISSN 0048-9697 - p. 997 - 1009.

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