Benefits and risks of rewilding

Resource type: 
Research
EU project stamp: 
No
Main entity: 
International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
Type of entity: 
IGO
Key themes: 
Restoration
Societal challenges: 
Biodiversity Enhancement
Scope: 
Global
Description: 

This issue brief focuses on the benefits and risks of rewilding and how the misuse of the increasingly popular rewilding concept risks alienating communities, harming existing biodiversity and undermining confidence in a technique with enormous conservation potential.

Semester theme: 
2. Ecosystem restoration
Date: 
2021
Language: 
EN
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FR