How to Use rewilding in a Sentence

rewilding

noun
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  • It is set to be Africa's largest rewilding programs of any species, set to take place over the next 10 years.
    — Emma Ogao, ABC News, 23 Sep. 2023
  • The bike boom of the pandemic, Rosen argues, was a lot like the worldwide rewilding.
    — The New Yorker, 23 May 2022
  • This project is part of Affric Highlands, the UK's largest rewilding project.
    — Elizabeth Waddington, Treehugger, 16 Apr. 2023
  • The Ramsays brought Scotland’s first recent-era beavers to the site in 2002, when there were fewer restrictions, as part of their own beaver rewilding project.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 5 Sep. 2021
  • That vision is beginning to be realized in major cities around the world in the shape of the urban rewilding movement.
    — Kieron Monks, CNN, 22 Nov. 2022
  • If that wasn’t fraught enough, the rewilding process will take hundreds of years, so Syd manages their little chunk of greenery between extremely long naps in a cryogenic pod.
    — Geoffrey Bunting, Wired, 5 Feb. 2022
  • Given the demands of rewilding, even Heck cattle are gaining new respect.
    — Jonathon Keats, Discover Magazine, 19 June 2017
  • An adventure film that takes us on a bumpy journey to the Siberian steppes, where a Russian geophysicist wants to restore the ecosystems of the Ice Age through radical rewilding.
    — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 22 Feb. 2022
  • Oostvaardersplassen is the world’s largest and most advanced exercise in rewilding, but others could soon follow.
    — Andrew Curry, Discover Magazine, 4 May 2010
  • Then, the owners decided on a new approach: rewilding, allowing the land to return to its natural state.
    — David Morgan, CBS News, 19 July 2023
  • Some in the rewilding and broader conservation movements have tried to make the case that recovering the landscape can be seen as an element of its defense.
    — Johanna Chisholm, WIRED, 23 July 2023
  • Sustainability and gardening can go hand in hand—and rewilding proves it.
    — Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Sep. 2023
  • This rewilding project involves the collaboration of 76 working partners from 15 countries and is the first time a captive shark species has been successfully bred with the goal of reintroduction to the wild.
    — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Sep. 2023
  • Fences were removed along with the livestock, and the rewilding effort began literally at grassroots level.
    — CNN, 27 Jan. 2022
  • Now, after more than a 50-year absence, conservation scientists are calling for the jaguar’s return to their native habitat in a study that outlines what the rewilding effort may look like.
    — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 May 2021
  • But the surfers face steep challenges on a coastline where conservation and rewilding can provoke suspicion and anxiety.
    — WIRED, 22 July 2023
  • The farmers may be despondent, but Marris describes this rewilding conflict with passion.
    — Carolyn Wells, Longreads, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Fear and suspicion of rewilding are fueled in part by the painful history, but an exact recurrence is unlikely, Davidson says.
    — Cathleen O'Grady, The Atlantic, 20 May 2022
  • Funds are being raised for Wilder Blean, all of which will go toward rewilding — a conservation effort intended to replenish land and restore it to its natural state.
    — Sydney Page, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2022
  • The last pillar, Give, offers guests to give back to local communities such as local ski clubs or dedicated rewilding projects in the Engadin to protect the natural landscape.
    — Rana Good, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2023
  • The railway passes through habitats from grassland to mangroves, and ecologists hope the rewilding will connect flora and fauna and promote greater species diversity.
    — Nick Roll, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Mar. 2023
  • One key focus for this project is definitely community, as well as rewilding.
    — Elizabeth Waddington, Treehugger, 16 Apr. 2023
  • Wildlife has blossomed in this stretch of seemingly uninhabitable desert, Tsaobeb told me, after a decades-long rewilding effort to convert what was once farmland back into wilderness.
    — Melanie Van Zyl, Travel + Leisure, 5 July 2021
  • The rewilding effort has been credited with helping to reinvigorate tourism in northern Scotland.
    — James Hookway, WSJ, 22 Jan. 2022
  • Many businesses are supporting words with action through tree-planting and rewilding projects that aim to restore natural ecosystems and natural habitats.
    — Jason Knights, Fortune, 7 Dec. 2022
  • Funding for rewilding projects can help turn the tide against the global decline and disappearance of these large and environmentally influential plant consumers.
    — Curtis Abraham, Scientific American, 9 Sep. 2023
  • As in Los Angeles, which is moving forward with the rehabilitation of its eponymous river, rewilding projects are poised to supplant the concrete jungle with actual jungle.
    — Ian Volner, ELLE Decor, 21 Oct. 2020
  • Intent on making the farm a greener, cleaner space for her young children, Bamford also set about planting wildflower meadows and reinstalling hedgerows, now-typical methods of rewilding that were unfashionable at the time.
    — New York Times, 28 July 2021
  • But rewilding also happens in some of the world’s biggest urban centers, as people find mutually beneficial ways to coexist with nature.
    — John Flesher, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Dec. 2022
  • But rewilding also happens in some of the world's biggest urban centers, as people find mutually beneficial ways to coexist with nature.
    — Arkansas Online, 11 Dec. 2022

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