24. Domesticating rewilding: combining rewilding and agriculture offers environmental and human benefits

Abstract

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Is Joint Management between Conservationists and Farmers Sustainable and Biodiversity-friendly? A Ten-year Study in Residual Grasslands of a Protected Area

“…This technique could be implemented on a foot-by-foot basis by the farmer himself, to maintain the effect of pasture recovery over the long term, while limiting the disruptive effect of more general clearing. These results suggest that the concept of Joint management or Domesticating rewilding is a narrow but relatively efficient pathway (Thomas et al 2022).…”

“…The second position recognizes the influence of human activity on landscape biodiversity (Naveh 1998;Lasanta et al 2023). To benefit from both perspectives, the concept of 'Domesticating Rewilding' seeks to reconcile ecological and economic interests in agrarian habitats by implementing minimal human interventions to maintain or restore open habitats and their specialist species and ecological functions (Thomas et al 2022). This approach advocates for a renewed management strategy that combines traditional knowledge and practices of local farmers with the scientific expertise of conservationists (Haller and Bender 2018;Arnés-García and Santivañes 2021).…”