Part Five / What We Must Do Now

5.7 Rewilding

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  1. Armies of bluefin tuna stormed our coasts http://www.trawlerphotos.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?4843-History-of-the-British-Tuna-Fishery.

    harrying shoals of mackerel and herring Roberts, C. The Unnatural History of the Sea (Washington, DC: Island Press, 2007).

  2. only 3 per cent of the Earth’s land surface Plumptre, J. A., et al., ‘Where might we find ecologically intact communities?’, Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 4, 2021: Article 626635, https://doi.org/10.3389/ffgc.2021.626635.

    natural climate solutions Natural Climate Solutions, https://www.naturalclimate.solutions/.

    could radically change the carbon balance Cromsigt, J. P. C. M., et al., ‘Trophic rewilding as a climate change mitigation strategy?’, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 373 (1761), 2018: Article 20170440, https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2017.0440.

    forest elephants … are natural foresters Bello, C., ‘Defaunation affects carbon storage in tropical forests’, , 1 (11), 2015: Article e150110, Science Advances, 1 (11), 2015: Article e150110, https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1501105.

    If wolves were allowed to reach their natural populations Wilmers, C. C., and Schmitz, O. J., ‘Effects of gray wolf induced trophic cascades on ecosystem carbon cycling’, Ecosphere, 7 (10), 2016: Article e01501, https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.1501.

    Healthy populations of predatory crabs and fish Atwood, T. B., et al., ‘Predators help protect carbon stocks in blue carbon ecosystems’, Nature Climate Changehttps://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2763.

    There’s no substitute for … long-established reefs Mroviec, A., ‘Sabellaria reefs: ugly and fragile, yet incredibly important emblems of Dutch waters’, EcoWatch, 31 May 2019, https://www.ecowatch.com/sabellaria-reefs-2638515153.html.

    The loss of these ancient habitats is one of the forces Heppel, S. S., et al., ‘Effects of fishing on long-lived marine organisms’, in Norse, E. A., and Crowder, L. B., eds., Marine Conservation Biology: The Science of Maintaining the Sea’s Biodiversity (Washington, DC: Island Press, 2005), 211–31.

  3. recent analysis by Rewilding Britain Rewilding Britain, Rewilding and the Rural Economy: How Nature-Based Economies Can Help Boost and Sustain Local Communities, October 2021, https://s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/assets.rewildingbritain.org.uk/documents/nature-based-economies-rewilding-britain.pdf.