Rewilding

Rewilding is the process of creating a lifestyle that is beyond domestication. [" [http://www.greenanarchy.info/rewild.php Rewilding] " from [http://www.greenanarchy.info/ Green Anarchist Infoshop] ] In green anarchism and anarcho-primitivism, humans are said to be "domesticated" by civilization. Supporters of such human rewilding argue that through the process of domestication, human wildness has been tamed and taken away. [GA Collective & Coalition Against Civilization, " [http://www.greenanarchy.org/index.php?action=viewwritingdetail&writingId=285 The Origins of Civilization] ] Rewilding, then, is about overcoming human domestication and returning to the innate wildness. Though often associated with primitive skills and learning knowledge of wild plants and animals, it emphasizes primal living as a holistic reality rather than just a number of skills or specific type of knowledge.

Rewilding is most associated with green anarchy and anarcho-primitivism or anti-civilization anarchy in general, [The GA & Wildroots Collectives, " [http://www.greenanarchy.org/index.php?action=viewwritingdetail&writingId=240 A Primer for a Balanced Existence Amid the Ruins of Civilization] "] though there is a large primitive living contingent who come at it from a less militant direction. [" [http://www.sacredlands.org/vision.htm Visons] " page at [http://www.sacredlands.org/ SacredLands.org] ]

Other uses

In the field of conservation biology, the term 'rewilding' refers to passive and active actions intended to result in the reintroduction of extirpated or once-native species back into natural landscapes. In North America, if the temporal benchmark for what constitutes native species is pre-Columbian (prior to the arrival of Christopher Columbus), then the action is a kind of deep-time rewilding, as in Pleistocene rewilding.

References

See also

* "Green Anarchist"
* Pleistocene Rewilding
* Assisted migration
* Invasive species
* "Species Traitor"
*urban prairie
*Korean Demilitarized Zone
*The World Without Us

External links

* [http://www.lucasfoglia.com/rewilding/ Re-Wilding]
* [http://www.rewilding.org/ The Rewilding Institute]
* [http://www.rewild.info/ REWILD.info]
* [http://www.wildland-network.org.uk/ Wildland network UK]
* [http://www.self-willed-land.org.uk/ Self-willed land]
*Stozenburg, William. [http://www.conbio.org/cip/article71wil.cfm Where the Wild Things Were] . "Conservation in Practice" 7(1):28-34.
* [http://www.eco-action.org/dt/primer.html "A Primitivist Primer"]