We define rewilding as “the large scale restoration of ecosystems through the provision of protecting land from human uses, and re-introducing lost natural processes with the ultimate aim of letting nature take care of itself. This may include, but not limited to, the reintroduction of extinct species”.
It is estimated that a million acres of land maybe in a state of ecosystem recovery in the next ten years, while to date there is already 120,000 hectares of private land in a state of rewilding. Couple these facts with new economic incentives such as Enviromental Land Management schemes, carbon capital and biodiversity net gain, it is unlikley that the pace of rewilding is going to slow anytime soon.