Monks Wood Wilderness: 60 years ago, scientists let a farm field rewild – here’s what happened
“Will it become a wood again, how long will it take, which species will be in it?”
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Reintroducing top predators to the wild is risky but necessary – here’s how we can ensure they survive
New research studies the factors that determine whether large carnivore reintroductions will be a success.
The bogs of war: landscapes play a huge part in conflict – and restoring them can strengthen security
Europe is rethinking security: as geopolitical tensions rise, Russia looms and climate risks intensify, can restoring nature help defend both nations and the planet?
Farmers told me what they really think about reintroducing lynx and wolves to Britain and Ireland
To investigate what’s really behind the controversy that surrounds large carnivore reintroductions, one political ecologist spoke to people on the frontline of this debate.
How Hollywood horror’s ‘killer wolf’ trope is sabotaging rewilding efforts
Our natural landscapes need wolves. And right now, wolves need all the good PR they can get.
Rewilding: conservationists want to let elephants loose in Europe – here’s what could happen
It sounds like a mammoth plan, but bringing back large herbivore species to Europe could help mitigate ecosystem collapse.
We’re conservation scientists – here’s why we haven’t lost hope for the future
In Europe, biodiversity is under threat. But three major trends mean we’re still optimistic.
Bears, wolves, lynx – Europe is going wild
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…
Why we should welcome the return of ‘Old Stinker’, the English werewolf
Collective environmental guilt could be leading to a rise in werewolf sightings in the English countryside.
40 years on from the disaster, why there are foxes, bears and bison again around Chernobyl
Endangered species are making their home in a massive wild zone around the derelict Chernobyl nuclear plant.
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