rewilding.

Helping an ecosystem regain natural processes and wildlife, with less continuing human control.

Use it for

Words that belong together

• a rewilding project
• a rewilding programme
• large-scale rewilding
• rewilding initiatives
• rewilding former farmland

On the page

The rewilding project aimed to restore seasonal flooding and allow native plants to spread along the river.

Residents supported rewilding on the estate but wanted a plan for protecting nearby crops.

Her dissertation compared the costs of rewilding with those of maintaining an intensively managed landscape.

Usage notes

Normally an uncountable noun: rewilding; a rewilding project; several rewilding projects, rather than a routine plural rewildings. It can modify a following noun, as in rewilding policy. The same spelling is also the present participle of rewild, as in they are rewilding the valley. This entry records the independently established conservation noun, not an extra ordinary verb form. Related verb forms, for recognition only: rewild, rewilds, rewilded, rewilding. No separate rewild page or inflection entry is created here. Register: technical. Commonness: established and moderately common in conservation and environmental discussion; less common in general conversation (dictionary-informed qualitative editorial estimate; not a measured frequency).