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ECOS 46 (1) – Illegal lynx releases signal discontent — a wake-up call for rewilding advocates

HANNAH L. TIMMINS · In early January 2025, four lynx, extinct in the UK, were [...]

REWILDING THE SEA and BLUE MACHINE

REWILDING THE SEA: How to Save Our Oceans Charles Clover Witness Books/Penguin, 2023, 288 pages [...]

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ECOS 45 (6) – The spirit of rewilding

Releasing our grip on nature & rediscovering our own wildness PETER TAYLOR Rewilding has caught [...]

ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF REWILDING

ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF REWILDING Sally Hawkins, Ian Convery, Steve Carver, and Rene Byers (Eds) Routledge, [...]

ECOS 43 (2): Passive Rewilding: A case for more trees on peat and fewer species reintroductions

A smorgas board of sophisticated rewilding initiatives are springing up across the UK, capturing the [...]

ECOS 42 (3): Time to put the wild back into rewilding

With rewilding in danger of becoming all things to all people we argue the need [...]

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Postgraduate Highly Commended 2020: Lessons from Scotland’s rewilding vs. repeopling debate

As a number of authors in ECOS and elsewhere have made clear, rewilding is both [...]

ECOS 40(6): Editorial: Rewilding – connections and perceptions

Rewilding has been in the news a lot recently, from further releases of beaver (albeit [...]

ECOS 40(6): Movement ecology and rewilding

The level of hyperbole in the promotion of a Dutch concept of nature conservation, and [...]

ECOS 40(6): Principles of rewilding – from the heart

This article discusses the challenge of maintaining a social movement for rewilding in the face [...]