rewilding

American  

[ree-wahyl-ding] / riˈwaɪl dɪŋ /

noun

1. the process of introducing animals or plants to their original habitat or one similar.

2. the process of returning land to an earlier, more natural state.

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rewilding British  

/ riːˈwaɪldɪŋ /

noun

1. the practice of returning areas of land to a wild state, including the reintroduction of animal species that are no longer naturally found there

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Etymology

Origin of rewilding

First recorded in 1990–95; rewild ( def. ) + -ing ¹ ( def. )

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Example Sentences

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rewilding

Tower mustard is the first plant species Citizen Zoo has worked with in London, joining a growing portfolio of rewilding projects that also includes beavers, water voles, German hairy snails and white storks.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

Knepp's rewilding project aims to reintroduce storks to the UK for the first time since the 1500s.

From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026

The project draws upon the group's Hop of Hope citizen rewilding programme, which has helped restore more than 8,000 large marsh grasshoppers to wetlands in Norfolk and Cambridgeshire since 2018.

From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2026

But its more significant legacy may be environmental - by taking the road under the landscape instead of through it, the project sparked one of the most successful rewilding projects in southern England.

From BBC ● May 31, 2026

For a decade, researchers have been working to reintroduce 12 other endemic species to Floreana as part of a rewilding program.

From Barron's ● Feb. 20, 2026

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