Rewilding: a concept borne of frustration with the dwindling of nature It is a concept that could see rhinos roaming the Australian outback or beavers creating wetlands in the British countryside.
Scientists found the reintroduction of top predators such as wolves, re-establish top-down ‘trophic’ controls which regulates the transfer of energy between vegetation and animals via food webs.
Sun, 20 Dec, 2020 - 12:30
Review: Dan MacCarthy
Paul Jepson and Cain Blythe
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THAT the planet is in serious danger is in no doubt. That there are plans and methodologies to derail the drastic decline in species’ extermination and global warming (to cite just two of the armageddon scenarios that await us) is also not in doubt. Among the bolder of these plans is rewilding. Jepson and Blythe are two of the strongest advocates for this theory which recognises the interplay of all ecosystems with one another in the essential functioning of the biosphere.