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rewild
[ ree-wahyld ]
verb (used with object)
- to introduce (animals or plants) to their original habitat or to a habitat similar to their natural one:
proposals to rewild elephants to the American plains.
- to return (land) to a more natural state:
rewilding an unpopulated island for use as an animal preserve.
verb (used without object)
- to introduce living organisms to a habitat.
- to return land to a less developed state.
Example Sentences
Thankfully, Attenborough spends the latter part of the film talking about solutions and how to rewild nature, with simple long-term goals.
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More About Rewild
What does rewild mean?
Rewild means to reintroduce a plant or animal to its original habitat or one similar to its natural habitat.
To rewild a plant or animal is to introduce a plant or animal species back to its natural habitat. Sometimes, if an animal has been in captivity for a long time or has been injured and then taken care of by humans, it will have to go through a training process in order to be rewilded—otherwise the animal won’t be able to take care of itself in the wild.
In the case of plants, rewild usually refers to reintroducing a plant species to an area after it was removed for some reason, such as a natural disaster or human development.
To rewild also means to return land to a more natural state. That might mean planting vegetation that originally belonged in that habitat, taking care of it, and nurturing the land until it resembles the natural areas around it or that it is based on.
Example: This sea turtle has already gone through most of the rewilding process and will be released for good in a few weeks.
Where does rewilding come from?
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How is rewild used in real life?
Rewild is usually used to describe returning plants or animals to their original habitat or returning land to its natural state.
Nearly half of all the food that's produced in the world each year gets wasted, mostly by farms and supermarkets. There's a big opportunity here. By ending food waste, we could in theory cut global emissions by 14%, and rewild 2.4 billion hectares of land.
— Jason Hickel (@jasonhickel) May 5, 2020
Culling of coyotes in Stanley Park? Consider the knock on effect by removing a species from its natural habitat. Look what happened when they wiped out the wolves in Yellowstone. They had to rewild them back to balance the ecosystem. #banthecull #coyotes #StanleyPark #Vancouver
— Bryan Adams (@bryanadams) September 5, 2021
New goal: earn millions as a celebrity biologist, then buy up swathes of degraded farmland in the UK and plant/rewild it for nature, using ecotourism to make it self-sustaining. Who's in?
— Dr Sally Le Page (@sallylepage) April 4, 2019
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Is rewild used correctly in the following sentence?
“Sophie rescued a hurt rabbit, nursed it back to health, and then rewilded it to the woods it came from.”
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