Introducing rewilding to restoration to expand the conservation effort: a response to Hayward et al.

Anderson, Robert M.; Buitenwerf, Robert; Driessen, Clemens; Genes, Luísa; Lorimer, Jamie; Svenning, Jens Christian

doi:10.1007/s10531-019-01845-1

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“…While the other rewilding forms generally originate in landscapes where agriculture is absent, marginal or has been abandoned (Navarro and Pereira, 2012), agricultural rewilding can be found on land that is either marginal or nonmarginal for agriculture on individual farms and/or in agricultural landscapes. Despite continued debate over the utility of distinguishing "rewilding" from "restoration" (Anderson et al, 2019;Hayward et al, 2019), all forms of rewilding emphasise minimal human intervention and the influence of fauna (especially large mammals) on ecosystems (Gordon et al, 2021b).…”

Section: Forms Of Rewildingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Agricultural rewilding: a prospect for livestock systems

Mondière¹,

Corson²,

Morel³

et al. 2021

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CONTEXT: Agricultural intensification is a major cause of biodiversity loss. Biodiversity conservation and restoration generally involve human intervention. In comparison, rewilding, a radically different approach to address the erosion of biodiversity, aims to increase the ability of ecological processes to act with little or no human intervention, and thus to enhance biodiversity and the supply of ecosystem services. OBJECTIVE: In this review and call to explore the potential of rewilding for agriculture, in particular for livestock systems, we identified effects of agroecological livestock systems on biodiversity and analysed similarities, differences and complementarities between the agroecological transition and the rewilding of livestock systems.METHODS: We researched literature in the Web of Science Core Collection that focussed on biodiversity, livestock, agriculture, rewilding and interactions among them.RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS: Agricultural rewilding is an emerging form of land use that we conceptually position between agroecology and rewilding. It combines restoration of ecological processes with some degree of agricultural production, most often of animals. Over time, human land-use has aimed to increase plant and animal output, which has degraded the ecological integrity of ecosystems. This process of dewilding accelerated with the advent of agriculture. In recent decades, certain agricultural landscapes and farms have evolved in the opposite direction, decreasing material human inputs and improving ecological integrity. This evolution takes three forms: agroecological transition, agricultural rewilding and rewilding. Of these, the first and third concern relatively large areas. A selection of 11 agricultural rewilding projects established for at least 5 years in the United Kingdom had areas of 121-4402 ha. The projects targeted 48 key species/breeds, 23 of which were ecosystem engineers: 18 grazers, 4 pig breeds and beavers. The main actions to enhance rewilding were extensive grazing and habitat restoration. The main economic activities were meat or animal sales, tourism and education programmes. Agricultural rewilding may provide a multifunctional model to which livestock farms may transition to respond better to societal demands.SIGNIFICANCE: Agricultural rewilding offers a new and inspiring prospect for livestock systems and poses research questions about its relation to agroecology and rewilding, its implementation, its potential for plant production and its value for livestock farmers. The forms it can take remain to be explored, and the potential influence of these forms on biodiversity, ecosystem services and environmental impacts needs to be characterised. Exploring the forms that agricultural rewilding may take requires close collaboration among ecologists, animal scientists and agronomists.

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Section: Forms Of Rewildingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Agricultural rewilding: a prospect for livestock systems

Mondière¹,

Corson²,

Morel³

et al. 2021

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“…However, this proposal has been regarded as rather narrow (Derham, 2019). For example, Anderson et al (2019) suggest that rewilding 'is a subfield of practices under the broader umbrella of restoration: all rewilding is restoration (of species, but especially ecological processes), but not all restoration is rewilding'. Instead they argue rewilding projects emphasize and promote the autonomy of ecological processes that are unplanned or spontaneous.…”

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“…Discussions on post-2020 biodiversity strategies by the signatory countries of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) have led to proposals to declare a 'decade of restoration' in which rewilding will potentially be at the forefront of conservation policy, management and practice (Perino et al, 2019). Nevertheless, although there is significant growth in the use of the term in both academic and popular literature, its application and utility remains fundamentally contested (Anderson et al, 2019;Carey, 2016;Derham, 2019;Hayward et al, 2019;Lorimer et al, 2015;Pettorelli, Durant, & du Toit, 2019).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Tourism and rewilding: an introduction – definition, issues and review

Hall

2019

Journal of Ecotourism

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Rewilding is an increasingly significant normative concept in biological conservation, environmental planning and urban greenspace studies. Originally developed in relation to ecological restoration theory and practice the term has developed over time and has come to be used in a range of environmental discourses. Along with other ecosystem services tourism provides a major economic justification for rewilding, although specific studies on rewilding and tourism are limited. In introducing this special issue of Journal of Ecotourism on tourism and rewilding attention is given to the main definitions and approaches to rewilding, their application, and some of the issues that emerge, including contestation over not only how rewilding is framed but also the implications of the (re)introduction of wild animals. Rewilding therefore provides new opportunities to examine the nature-culture relationship and the ethics, management and policies associated with tourism's embeddedness in ecological restoration practices and the framing of the wild.

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“…For example, necessary changes to Soulé’s (1985) normative values and functional postulates for conservation in the 21st century have been highlighted (Kareiva & Marvier, 2012). Yet debate continues to focus largely on the empirical evidence supporting paradigmatic conservation solutions, rather than also addressing the underlying values that drive the debate (e.g., Hayward et al., 2019; Anderson et al., 2019; Wallach et al., 2020). Without broader disciplinary acknowledgement and more robust methodological accounting for the influence of values on research and the management processes it informs, conservation scientists risk exacerbating conflicts and failing to find durable conservation solutions.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%