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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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Dam dreams and river rewilding: Ideals in dispute (Dialogue 30 August 13:30h)
- Are we entering a new era of river governance in Europe, with a revolutionary shift from dam construction to dam removal? What ideals are behind dam... -
EU Nature Restoration Law 'significant and highly positive step'
- Nature is in decline globally and it clearly needs action at all levels if we are to bend the curve of biodiversity loss in a positive direction. The...
News 2012-2021
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A landscape without people can be detrimental to biodiversity
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Reversing extinction through re-wilding: the case of China’s Père David’s Deer
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Rewilding nature in the Netherlands and Europe
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Liesbeth Bakker appointed as Special Professor Rewilding Ecology in Wageningen
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Successful KIGO European Nature Entrepreneurship concludes with symposium in Velp
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Symposium The Business of Nature Conservation inspires European Wilderness
Research on rewilding
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Rewilding for climate and biodiversity
wildE is a Horizon2020 project proposing a multi-disciplinary research and innovation programme that addresses the climate-biodiversity nexus in tight... -
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
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Temperature and Rainfall Patterns Constrain the Multidimensional Rewilding of Global Forests
Advanced Science 9 (2022)18. - ISSN 2198-3844 -
Op zoek naar de positieve emoties door rewilding
In: Rewilding in Nederland: Essays over een offensieve natuurstrategie. - : KNVV Uitgeverij - p. 59 - 67. -
Een (ge)wilde toekomst voor Nederland in 2120
In: Rewilding in Nederland. - : KNNV uitgeverij - p. 195 - 207. -
Rewilding in Nederland : Essays over een offensieve natuurstrategie
Zeist : KNNV uitgeverij - ISBN 9789050118699 - p. -
Oostvaardersplassen: A Wild Idea
Oostvaardersplassen: A Wild Idea, BBC 4 radio, 2021-12-15, Pippa Smith, Matthew Syed, https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0012fp4 -
Animal Conservation in the Twenty-First Century
In: Animals in Our Midst: The Challenges of Co-existing with Animals in the Anthropocene. / , Bovenkerk, Bernice, Keulartz, Jozef. - : Springer, Cham (The International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics ) - ISBN 9783030635220 - p. 27 - 45. -
Fragmentation and translocation distort the genetic landscape of ungulates: red deer in the Netherlands
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Fragmentation and Translocation Distort the Genetic Landscape of Ungulates : Red Deer in the Netherlands
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’
"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
Natural Bee Husbandry 2020 (2020)15. - p. 28 - 31.