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12 - The Role of Conservation Translocations in Rewilding and De-extinction

from Part II - Conservation Translocations: The Key Issues

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 December 2022

By
Philip J. Seddon
Edited by
Martin J. Gaywood ,
John G. Ewen ,
Peter M. Hollingsworth  and
Axel Moehrenschlager
Foreword by
Razan Al Mubarak
Martin J. Gaywood
Affiliation:
University of the Highlands and Islands
John G. Ewen
Affiliation:
Zoological Society of London
Peter M. Hollingsworth
Affiliation:
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
Axel Moehrenschlager
Affiliation:
IUCN SSC Conservation Translocation Specialist Group
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Summary

The rewilding concept was born only about 20 years ago as large-scale conservation based on core protected areas linked by corridors, within which top-order predators have been restored. The original vision of rewilding has become somewhat blurred amongst a plethora of projects branding themselves as rewilding. Broadly two types of rewilding can be recognised: trophic rewilding, entailing the active restoration of key species, and passive rewilding, the spontaneous and undirected return of vegetation and ecological processes. Conservation translocations, in the form of reintroduction and ecological replacement, are a key component of trophic rewilding, with the prevalence of reintroductions in rewilding projects increasing in recent years. Trophic rewilding is therefore the intersection between rewilding, conservation translocations, and ecological restoration, where reintroduction or ecological replacement of key species is used to restore lost ecological functions.

Keywords

rewildingtrophic rewildingecological rewildingPleistocene rewildingreintroductionecological replacementecological restorationtranslocationde-extinctionkeystone
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Conservation Translocations , pp. 354 - 378
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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