Rewilding the planet

And how it’s necessary so we can live another 1000 years or more
First off, what is “Rewilding”?
 Rewilding introduces endangered or lost animal species to natural
environments. This restores ecosystems and conserves the environment
to increase biodiversity and create almost complete self-sustainable
environments.
 “Rewilding is a form of ecological restoration with an emphasis on
humans stepping back and leaving an area to nature, as opposed to more
active forms of natural resource management.” (True Nature foundation)
Benefits of Rewilding
 Rewilding can repair many broken ecosystems and improve the
sustainability of it. It improves our environments’ conditions and can
control or even change climate change/ global warming altogether.
 It introduces species that have been forgotten or harmed, that were
erased from its own ecosystem, causing the ecosystem to crash and
eventually die on its own.
 Humans wont be able to manage the ecosystems and environment as the
whole purpose is to involve as little human touch as possible. This will
allow the animals to freely act as they are trying to revive their own
ecosystem and will allow it to stay in it’s most sustainable and natural
state.
Issues of Rewilding
 Like stated, the whole purpose of rewilding was to include little to no
human involvement. However, this can have a downside. Humans not
controlling it can cause the ecosystem to increase quite rapidly without it
staying under control and can cause significant problem to humans.
 For example, habitats will increase as animals increase as they need a place
to live. Apex predators can increase and cause serious harm to humans,
their poultry or farms. The more animals, the larger the ecosystem, the
more pests, birds or animals that can conflict with our food resources and
agriculture.
 “Misuse of the increasingly popular rewilding concept risks alienating
communities, harming existing biodiversity and undermining confidence in
a technique with enormous conservation potential.” (IUCN)
 “Without proper consultation rewilding may not benefit local
communities, especially those with histories of traditional land
management such as hunting, farming, forestry and fisheries.” (IUCN)
Why is it important?
 Due to unwanted human interaction, the ecosystems remaining are failing
and we need a method to repair it and to restore biodiversity and
environmental sustainability so that the world can once again gather more
natural resources for food, clothing, medicine etc.
 “The UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration and the post-2020 global
biodiversity framework provide opportunities to rebuild the biodiverse
ecosystems which sustain all life on Earth. Rewilding has the potential to do
so at a landscape scale, and brings other important benefits for society.”
(IUCN)
 Rewildling ecosystems can cause significant decrease in carbon emission
increasing air quality for humans as well as animals.
 “Rewilded ecosystems can also create socio-economic opportunities for
local communities, reduce the effects of and costs associated with
environmental hazards (such as flooding), and improve human health and
wellbeing by improving access to nature.” (IUCN)
10 principles for Rewilding
 Cited from IUCN (https://www.iucn.org/resources/benefits-and-risks-rewilding)
 1. Rewilding uses wildlife to restore food webs and food chains. 
2. Rewilding plans should identify core rewilded areas, ways to connect them, and
ensure outcomes are to the mutual benefit of people and nature.
3. Rewilding requires local engagement and community support.
4. Rewilding focuses on the recovery of ecological processes, interactions and
conditions based on similar healthy ecosystems.
5. Rewilding recognises that ecosystems are dynamic and constantly changing.
6. Rewilding should anticipate the effects of climate change and act as a tool
to mitigate its impacts. 
7. Rewilding is informed by science and considers local knowledge.  
8. Rewilding recognises the intrinsic value of all species.
9. Rewilding is adaptive and dependent on monitoring and feedback. 
10. Rewilding is a paradigm shift in the coexistence of humans and nature.
How/ what can be done?
 Governments will have to obtain some land that hasn’t been touched by
humans and release natural species into the population slowly. If done
quickly, the ecosystem can rapidly fail as there’s not enough time for
each species to evolve and adjust to its surroundings.
 Scientists will have to make a plan that involves every species and decide
which species will be put into the same ecosystem as some can ruin the
food chain or invent unnecessary challenges for the ecosystem to
maintain sustainability therefore wasting time, money, resources and
opportunities.