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

  • from Part II - Conservation Translocations: The Key Issues
  • Edited by Martin J. Gaywood, University of the Highlands and Islands, John G. Ewen, Zoological Society of London, Peter M. Hollingsworth, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Axel Moehrenschlager, IUCN SSC Conservation Translocation Specialist Group
  • Foreword by Razan Al Mubarak
  • Book:
    Conservation Translocations
    Published online:
    07 December 2022
    Print publication:
    22 December 2022, pp 354-378

  • 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.