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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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Inauguration Liesbeth Bakker: ‘If you give nature room, it returns rapidly’
- Can giving nature more room help us solve major crises? Liesbeth Bakker, who is to be inaugurated as a professor by special appointment of Rewilding... -
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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Rewilding the planet An archipelago constructed of sand and mud is bringing new life to a dead lake but can this bold experiment have a lasting impact?
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Trophic rewilding can expand natural climate solutions
Nature Climate Change (2023), Volume: 13, Issue: 4 - ISSN 1758-678X - p. 324-333. -
Menselijke rewilding
In: Rewilding in Nederland / , Arts, K., Bakker, L., Buys, A.. - : KNNV uitgeverij - ISBN 9789050118699 - p. 73 - 81. -
Recensie: Rewilding in Nederland – ‘Herwilderen’
Recensie: Rewilding in Nederland – ‘Herwilderen’, Landschap: Tijdschrift voor Landschapsonderzoek, 39 (3), 175, 2022-10-01, Kris van Koppen -
Ecological and human rewilding
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‘Four decades of Dutch rewilding with wildlife’
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Workshop Rewilding voor Brabants Landschap bij De Tongelaar, Mill
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From Planning a Wildlife Corridor to Biocultural Evolution
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Human rewilding : Practical pointers to address a root cause of global environmental crises
In: Routledge Handbook of Rewilding / , Hawkins, S., Convery, I., Carver, S., Beyers, R.. - London : Routledge - ISBN 9780367564483 - p. 374 - 382. -
Bijna alles kan wilder: Eerste Nederlandse rewilding-boek verschenen
Bijna alles kan wilder: Eerste Nederlandse rewilding-boek verschenen, Nature Today, 2022-03-12, https://www.naturetoday.com/intl/nl/nature-reports/message/?msg=28909