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rewilding

noun

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  1. The act of restoring a natural area to its former wild state, especially by repopulating…

    The act of restoring a natural area to its former wild state, especially by repopulating it with animals that have been extirpated.

    • For rewilding North America, we need to find or restore some of the cogs and wheels we've already tossed into the dust bin.
    • The beaver was hunted to extinction in Britain more than three centuries ago, but is today the rewilding movement’s pin-up.
    • There's a colossal amount of tree planting, rewilding and other work going on to ensure that HS2 adds more to the environment than it takes away.

  2. present participle and gerund of rewild

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for rewilding. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA