61. Rewilding: What? And why? (Marine Drouilly)

The Case for Conservation Podcast

Content provided by www.case4conservation.com. All podcast content including episodes, graphics, and podcast descriptions are uploaded and provided directly by www.case4conservation.com or their podcast platform partner. If you believe someone is using your copyrighted work without your permission, you can follow the process outlined here https://podcastplayer.com/legal.

2M ago 49:20

MP3•Episode home

The concept of rewilding has been applied in various ways, from the simple restoration of a single natural process like removing livestock to allow vegetation to recover, to ambitious proposals to reintroduce long-extinct megafauna. While some applications have obvious conservation benefits, rewilding also raises legitimate concerns, especially about how renewed interactions with reintroduced wildlife like large herbivores and carnivores, might affect human wellbeing, livelihoods, and land use. Rewilding has become a popular and sometimes controversial topic within conservation circles. It has also been gaining traction and growing public and governmental interest as societies search for more holistic approaches to restoring ecosystem processes and biodiversity.

Joining me to unpack what rewilding means, and to explore the potential conflicts and compromises that come with it, is Marine Drouilly. Marine is the Regional Coordinator for Wild Cat Surveys and Research in West and Central Africa with the NGO "Panthera".

Links to resources:

Guidelines for evaluating the success of large carnivore reintroductions - A relevant paper in Biological Conservation co-authored by Marine
Panthera - Website of the organization Marine works for

Visit www.case4conservation.com

65 episodes

#Science #Natural Sciences #Social Sciences #Environment #www.case4conservation.com #Biodiversity #Natural #Ecology