A meta-analysis to explore whether rewilding aimed at increasing biodiversity, disturbance stochasticity or connectivity increase ecosystem resilience. Rewilding generally enhances resilience with nearly 70% of observations reporting positive outcomes, 10% neutral and 20% negative. Enhancing connectivity is underrepresented, highlighting a gap in addressing this ecological function for post-disturbance recovery. Rewilding showed positive but non-significant effects on socio-ecological resilience indicating a need for integrated approaches which also target social components.