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Rewilding and its limitations

🔊SOUND ON🎶 We're in an ecological crisis. We're losing nature from our streets and our countryside. @vonderleyen @TimmermansEU : Bring our nature back NOW to help health & the climate! #BringNatureBack NatureNow  — Friends of the Earth (@foeeurope) February 27, 2020 Dear friends, be patient with the image above. It takes a while to load but it's worth it! If it won't load at all, click on the Bring Nature Back Link and it should work. It works on my phone, but not on my rather elderly laptop. Hope you have better luck and many thanks to Chris  Packham and others for sending it on. I have been thinking a lot about rewilding lately and it’s a very appealing notion, not the least because, like carbon offsets, it assuages some of our ecological guilt as we preside over one of the largest extinctions in the world’s history. Briefly, it involves returning some parts of the earth to a more natural state, either by simply quarantining them and allowing...