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Scientists asked young people to draw what they would like the natural world to look like when they’re older. Their imagination could help make conservationists more ambitious.
A reserve near Amsterdam lost many wild cattle and deer over the tough winter, leading to public protests. Yet this was a failure of Dutch politics rather than rewilding itself.
Trowels and spades are being put to use in the sea.
Zoos’ role in conservation is divisive, but in Australia they could be critical in securing and even recovering threatened species.
Collective environmental guilt could be leading to a rise in werewolf sightings in the English countryside.
Keeping such large, intelligent and endangered animals in captivity poses a number of ethical and practical challenges.
Depends on whether or not we reintroduce ‘rewilded’ animals such as bison or wolves.
Australia wants to kill off two million feral cats and momentum for similar plans is growing in the US. Is there a good case for killing or neutering outdoor cats to protect biodiversity?
Proposals to set aside vast tracts of land for wildlife raise ethical questions, challenging the human-centric view of the value of life.
Restoring natural ecosystems doesn’t have to mean looking back to the past.
A “Pleistocene Park” might be a more realistic scenario.
There’s more to reintroducing wildlife than just releasing a few lynx.
Rewilding is considered one of the crazier ideas in contemporary conservation. The idea of resurrecting woolly mammoths and setting them loose in Siberia and the American Great Plains or lions roaming…
We are losing our large carnivores. In ecosystems around the world, the decline of large predators such as lions, bears, dingoes, wolves, and otters is changing landscapes, from the tropics to the Arctic…
Europe, the world’s most industrialised and intensively managed continent, is going wild. During the past three decades it has witnessed conservation successes with the most unexpected species: Europe…
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