BACKGROUND Rapid global change is creating fundamental challenges for the persistence
of natural ecosystems and their biodiversity. Conservation efforts aimed at the protection of …

Large herbivores and carnivores (the megafauna) have been in a state of decline and
extinction since the Late Pleistocene, both on land and more recently in the oceans. Much …

There has been much recent interest in the concept of rewilding as a tool for nature
conservation, but also confusion over the idea, which has limited its utility. We developed a …

Assesses a promising new approach to restoring the health of our bodies and our planet
Most of us are familiar with probiotics added to milk or yogurt to improve gastrointestinal …

Trophic rewilding is an ecological restoration strategy that uses species introductions to
restore top-down trophic interactions and associated trophic cascades to promote self …

Rewilding is being promoted as an ambitious alternative to current approaches to nature
conservation. Interest is growing in popular and scientific literatures, and rewilding is the …

Rewilding, here defined as “the reorganisation of biota and ecosystem processes to set an
identified social–ecological system on a preferred trajectory, leading to the self‐sustaining …

Farmland abandonment and the decline of livestock activity in the Mediterranean mountains
have resulted in dramatic landscape changes, including the generalized expansion of …

River restoration through dam removal provides an opportunity to investigate the changing
nature of environmental conflicts and politics in long-humanized landscapes. In New …

A probiotic turn is underway in the management of human and environmental health.
Modern approaches are being challenged by deliberate interventions that introduce formerly …