Picture credit: Charles Darwin Foundation – Protecting the Galapagos, one of the planet’s most renowned natural treasures, and leading scientific research to better understand our natural systems
The Global Rewilding Alliance is working with a variety of experts to systematically compile, review and share the evidence on the benefits of rewilding. Dive into the rewilding research and gain invaluable insights from esteemed scientists and researchers worldwide.
Tracking the global application of conservation translocation and social attraction to reverse seabird declines
Dena R. Spatz, Lindsay C. Young, Nick D. Holmes, Graeme A. Taylor
06/03/2023 in PNAS
Ecological restoration for sustainable development in China
Bojie Fu, Yanxu Liu, Michael E Meadows
21/02/2023 in National Science Review
Natural infrastructure in dryland streams (NIDS) can establish regenerative wetland sinks that reverse desertification and strengthen climate resilience
Laura M. Norman, Rattan Lal, Ellen Wohl, Emily Fairfax, Allen C. Gellis, Michael M. Pollock
25/11/2022 in ScienceDirect
Harnessing island–ocean connections to maximize marine benefits of island conservation
Stuart A. Sandin, Penny A. Becker, Ceiba Becker, Brian J. Zgliczynski
27/10/2022 in PNAS
Ecological Protection and Livelihood Improvement in Ecologically Vulnerable Regions
ZHEN Lin, XU Zengrang, CHENG Wuxue
30/09/2022 in Journal of Resources and Ecology
Bison outperform cattle at restoring their home on the range
Kyle E. Harms
28/09/2022 in PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America)
Assessment of Seabird Restoration Priorities for the U.S. Pacific Islands
USFWS Migratory Bird Office - André F Raine, Jason Gregg, Scott Driskill & Helen Raine
01/09/2022 in Archipelago Research and Conservation
Reintroducing bison results in long-running and resilient increases in grassland diversity
Zak Ratajczak, Scott L. Collins, John M. Blair, Jesse B. Nippert
29/08/2022 in PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America)
“Nature’s contributions to people” and peoples’ moral obligations to nature
John J. Piccolo, Bron Taylor, Haydn Washington, Helen Kopnina, Joe Gray, Heather Alberro, Ewa Orlikowska
12/05/2022 in ScienceDirect
The role of large wild animals in climate change mitigation and adaptation
Yadvinder Malhi, Tonya Lander, Elizabeth le Roux, Nicola Stevens, Marc Macias-Fauria, Lisa Wedding et al
28/02/2022 in Cell Press – Current Biology
Animating The Carbon Cycle
The Global Rewilding Alliance
01/01/2022 by The Global Rewilding Alliance
Seabird meta-Population Viability Model (mPVA) methods
M. Tim Tinker, Kelly M. Zilliacus, Diana Ruiz, Bernie R. Tershy, Donald A. Croll
09/12/2021 in ScienceDirect
Empirical synthesis: herbivores reducing fuel loads and wildfire severity
Julia Rouet-Leduc, Guy Pe'er, Francisco Moreira, Aletta Bonn, Wouter Helmer, Shahin A. A. Shahsavan Zadeh, Alexander Zizka, Fons van der Plas
05/09/2021 in British Ecological Society
Where Might We Find Ecologically Intact Communities?
Andrew J. Plumptre, Daniele Baisero, R. Travis Belote, Ella Vázquez-Domínguez, Soren Faurby et al
15/04/2021 in Frontiers
The use of social attraction techniques to restore seabird colonies on Desecheo Island, Puerto Rico
Jose-Luis Herrera-Giraldo, Cielo E. Figuerola-Hernández, Coral A. Wolf, Ricardo Colón-Merced et al
15/04/2021 in British Ecological Society
Guiding Principles for Rewilding
Steve Carver, Ian Convery, Sally Hawkins, Rene Beyers, Adam Eagle, Zoltan Kun, Erwin Van Maanen et al
16/03/2021 in Society for Conservation Biology
Ecological restoration of agricultural land can improve its contribution to economic development
Adrian C. Newton, Paul M. Evans, Stephen C. L. Watson, Lucy E. Ridding
05/03/2021 in PLOS
Seabird Restoration Database website
Pacific Rim Conservation
01/03/2020
Restoring natural forests is the best way to remove atmospheric carbon
Simon L. Lewis, Charlotte E. Wheeler, Edward T. A. Mitchard & Alexander Koch
02/04/2019 in Nature Climate Change
Globally important islands where eradicating invasive mammals will benefit highly threatened vertebrates
Nick D. Holmes, Dena R. Spatz, Steffen Oppel, Bernie Tershy, Donald A. Croll, Brad Keitt et al
27/03/2019 by PLOS
Trophic rewilding: impact on ecosystems under global change
Elisabeth S. Bakker & Jens-Christian Svenning
22/10/2018 in The Royal Society Publishing
Effects of gray wolf-induced trophic cascades on ecosystem carbon cycling
Dr Christopher Wilmers and Dr Oswald Schmitz
20/10/2016 in Ecosphere
Invasive mammal eradication on islands results in substantial conservation gains
Holly P. Jones , Nick D. Holmes, Stuart H. M. Butchart and Donald A. Croll
09/02/2016 in PNAS
Science for a wilder Anthropocene: Synthesis and future directions for trophic rewilding research
Jens-Christian Svenning, Pil B. M. Pedersen, C. Josh Donlan, Rasmus Ejrnæs, Søren Faurby, Mauro Galetti et al
26/10/2015 in PNAS
Database of Island Invasive Species Eradications website
Island Conservation
01/09/2014
Ecological Restoration: Approaches and Impacts on Vegetation, Soils and Society
Asa L. Aradottir, Dagmar Hagen
28/04/2013 in ScienceDirect
