Ben Goldfarb on How Beavers can Boost the Collective Imagination

By Rob Hopkins, Ben Goldfarb, Rob Hopkins blog

One of the finest books I’ve read recently was ‘Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter’ by Ben Goldfarb. Ben is an American environmental journalist who has taken great interest in this remarkable creature and its ability to, as he put it when we spoke, “help tackle many of our ecological problems if we just get out of the way and let the rodent do the work”. 

The Wild Way to Rapid Transition – How Rewilding can Slow Climate Breakdown, Protect from its Worst Effects and Improve Biodiversity

By Rapid Transition Alliance Staff, Rapid Transition Alliance

Rewilding demands a cultural shift and this will be closely related to the shift needed for rapid transition in other areas. Sharing space with messy, complex nature and predators with large teeth is something to which we can and must adapt.

The Natural World can Help Save us from Climate Catastrophe

By George Monbiot, The Guardian blog

We don’t want natural climate solutions to be used as a substitute for the rapid and comprehensive decarbonisation of our economies. The science tells us both are needed: the age of carbon offsets is over.

What a Saami-Led Project in Arctic Finland can Teach us about Indigenous Science

By Ellis Quinn, Eyes on the Arctic

A successful Saami-led, salmon rewilding project on the Näätämö river in Arctic Finland illustrates the success of partnership between Indigenous knowledge and western science on environmental questions, say the authors of a recent paper, but outdated perceptions and prejudices means these kinds of partnerships elsewhere still too often fail.

The Uplands Need a Future Reimagined not Rewilded

By Catherine Broomfield, Sustainable Food Trust

Viewed over centuries, the beneficial role of upland farmers as stewards of both the landscape and their local communities is clear. However, George Monbiot, spoke for rewilding largely from an ideological standpoint.

The Empty Countryside

By Sara Hudston, Dark Mountain Project

For thousands of years, the English countryside has never been so empty of people and animals as it is now. The part of West Dorset where I live was once a busy network of small farmsteads, most with fewer than 100 acres, keeping Red Devon cattle for meat and milk. Today, the old farm names on the Ordnance Survey map are a roll call of lost activity...

Rewilding the Imagination

By Rob Hopkins, Rob Hopkins blog

It can’t be like “We need a policy for a rewilded childhood”, because we could be waiting forever, and that ain’t going to happen. And we haven’t got time to wait forever I don’t believe. So it’s what do we all do to rewild our own family, our own community, our own school?

Doug Tompkins Remembered

By Paul Kingsnorth, The Dark Mountain Project

Between them, Doug and Kris Tompkins spent the last 25 years working on one of the most ambitious conservation and rewilding projects on Earth, creating protected national parks in vulnerable areas of Chile and Argentina to provide a vital refuge for endangered wildlife at a time when the human demands on the non-human world increase daily.

Re-wilding: Joined-up Thinking Needed

By Chris Smaje, Small Farm Future

More farmers in the countryside are needed for the sake of both rewilding and sustainable agriculture.

Rewilding Body, Mind, and Soil

By Sophie Laggan, Sustainable Food Trust

Soil is Mother Earth’s gut – its microorganisms digest her food while her flora produce the necessary bacteria and yeasts to keep her healthy.