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Rewilding (Wikipedia)
“Rewilding is a form of ecological restoration aimed at increasing biodiversity and restoring natural processes. It differs from other forms of ecological restoration in that rewilding aspires to reduce human influence on ecosystems.[1] It is also distinct from other forms of restoration in that, while it places emphasis on recovering geographically specific sets of ecological interactions and functions that would have maintained ecosystems prior to human influence, rewilding is open to novel or emerging ecosystems which encompass new species and new interactions.[2][3]”
1. Sandom, Chris; Donlan, C. Josh; Svenning, Jens-Christian; Hansen, Dennis (15 April 2013), Macdonald, David W.; Willis, Katherine J. (eds.), “Rewilding”, Key Topics in Conservation Biology 2 (1 ed.), Wiley, pp. 430–451, doi:10.1002/9781118520178.ch23, ISBN 978-0-470-65876-5, retrieved 29 March 2024
2. Carver, Steve; et al. (2021). “Guiding principles for rewilding”. Conservation Biology. 35 (6): 1882–1893. Bibcode:2021ConBi..35.1882C. doi:10.1111/cobi.13730. PMID 33728690. S2CID 232263088.
3. Svenning, Jens-Christian (December 2020). “Rewilding should be central to global restoration efforts”. One Earth. 3 (6): 657–660. Bibcode:2020OEart…3..657S. doi:10.1016/j.oneear.2020.11.014. ISSN 2590-3322.
– A Mississauga man took the city to court over not mowing his lawn — and won
Maya Fernandez · CBC News Jan 9, 2026 “A Mississauga man has won a Superior Court challenge against the city over a weed control bylaw that prevents homeowners from growing some plants and grass over a certain height. Wolf Ruck, who owns the lawn that sparked the legal proceedings, told CBC Radio’s Metro Morning on Friday that his top priority is protecting nature. “I felt that this is something that I could do personally, in order to address the problem of biodiversity decline and global warming,” he said…Ruck has lived in the community of Orchard Heights since the 1970s, but he stopped mowing his lawn in 2021, leading to the years-long dispute…Ruck says that after some time of leaving parts of his lawn uncut, weeds were growing from seeds that had blown in from the wind, in line with his goal of encouraging biodiversity and pollination. “The lawn basically consists of islands that are surrounded by a pathway that is regularly mowed,” Ruck said. “So it’s not as if the entire property was just left to grow wild.”
– “ReWild: The Art & Science” Nov1-22, 2025 in Annapolis
Page on nsforestmatters.ca “…When Wigney moved to her century home in 2010, she was met with a landscape dominated by non-native trees and plants, remnants of centuries of colonial cultivation. What began as curiosity became a long-term act of reclamation. Over the years, she has reintroduced native species to rebuild an ecosystem capable of sustaining birds, mammals, and insects. The exhibition reveals this transformation through a blend of photography, watercolour illustration, field sketches, and video, offering viewers an intimate portrait of nature’s resilience when given space to heal.”