Bare mountainsides could be a thing of the past if rewilding gains ground
Biodiversity – ameasure of both the numbers and relative abundances of species – is under threat in a number of ways, all around the world.
Rewilding is a potential solution to that problem. The term rewilding does not have a single agreed definition. It is an approach to conservation that aims to maintain or increase biodiversity by recreating functioning, self-sustaining ecosystems. It does this by restoring natural processes that are missing from the ecosystem, such as seed dispersal, predation, pollination and decomposition, and often by introducing keystone species (see Figure 1).
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