What is "rewilding"

vb. (context conservationist jargon English) (present participle of rewild English)

Rewilding may refer to:

• Rewilding (conservation biology), the return of habitats to a natural state
  • Rewilding Europe, a programme to do so in Europe
    • Pleistocene rewilding
  • Rewilding Institute, an organization concerned with the integration of traditional wildlife and wildlands conservation
• Rewilding (anarchism), the reversal of human "domestication"
• Rewilding (horse), a thoroughbred racehorse
• Species reintroduction, the deliberate release of a species into the wild

Rewilding is a 2008 album by Mr. Pine. It can be noted for its instrumental diversity.

Rewilding means to return to a more wild or natural state; it is the process of undoing domestication. The term emerged from the green anarchism and anarcho-primitivism political theories, in which humans are believed to be "civilized" or "domesticated" by industrial and agricultural progress. Supporters of rewilding argue that through the process of domestication, human wildness has been altered by force.

Rewilding is about dismantling the culture of human domestication and returning to the lifeways of pre- agrarian human cultures. Though often associated with primitive skills and learning knowledge of wild plants and animals, it emphasizes regenerative land management techniques employed by hunter-gatherers and horticulturalists, as well as development of the senses and fostering deepening personal relationships with members of other species and the natural world. Rewilding intends to create permanently wild human cultures beyond domestication.

Rewilding is considered a holistic approach to living, as opposed to skills, practices or a specific set of knowledge.

Rewilding is large-scale conservation aimed at restoring and protecting natural processes and core wilderness areas, providing connectivity between such areas, and protecting or reintroducing apex predators and keystone species. Rewilding projects may require ecological restoration or wilderness engineering, particularly to restore connectivity between fragmented protected areas, and reintroduction of predators where extirpated.

Rewilding (23 February 2007 – 23 July 2011) was a thoroughbred racehorse. He won races at Royal Ascot and in Dubai. His finest hour came when winning the 2011 Prince Of Wales Stakes, beating Australian superstar So You Think. As a 3-year-old he won the Cocked Hat Stakes at Goodwood and the Great Voltiguer Stakes at York.

Rewilding was put down after the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes at the Betfair Weekend at Ascot Racecourse on Saturday, 23 July 2011. The horse tripped and broke its leg, throwing jockey Frankie Dettori to the ground. The jockey received no serious injuries in the incident.