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- Title
Ecological restoration and rewilding: two approaches with complementary goals?
- Authors
Mutillod, Clémentine; Buisson, Élise; Mahy, Gregory; Jaunatre, Renaud; Bullock, James M.; Tatin, Laurent; Dutoit, Thierry
- Abstract
As we enter the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (2021–2030) and address the urgent need to protect and restore ecosystems and their ecological functions at large scales, rewilding has been brought into the limelight. Interest in this discipline is thus increasing, with a large number of conceptual scientific papers published in recent years. Increasing enthusiasm has led to discussions and debates in the scientific community about the differences between ecological restoration and rewilding. The main goal of this review is to compare and clarify the position of each field. Our results show that despite some differences (e.g. top‐down versus bottom‐up and functional versus taxonomic approaches) and notably with distinct goals – recovery of a defined historically determined target ecosystem versus recovery of natural processes with often no target endpoint – ecological restoration and rewilding have a common scope: the recovery of ecosystems following anthropogenic degradation. The goals of ecological restoration and rewilding have expanded with the progress of each field. However, it is unclear whether there is a paradigm shift with ecological restoration moving towards rewilding or vice versa. We underline the complementarity in time and in space of ecological restoration and rewilding. To conclude, we argue that reconciliation of these two fields of nature conservation to ensure complementarity could create a synergy to achieve their common scope.
- Subjects
UNITED Nations; RESTORATION ecology; WILDLIFE reintroduction; NATURE conservation; SCIENTIFIC community; CONSERVATION biology; SCIENCE publishing
- Publication
Biological Reviews, 2024, Vol 99, Issue 3, p820
- ISSN
1464-7931
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/brv.13046