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#68: Urban Rewilding

Green Urbanist

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The Three Ecological Processes of Rewilding

When you're rewilding what you need to be doing is restoring three ecological processes, these are called trophic complexity, stochastic disturbance, and dispersal. For a functional ecosystem to work, it has to have all those levels intact. A lot of keystone species, a lot of apex predators are locally extinct. So that means we're missing the top of that food pyramid. We're also missing a lot of just other large animals like bison within Britain and Europe. And so one thing that a rewilding initiative might do is to build wild life bridges,.

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