#68: Urban Rewilding
Green Urbanist - Sustainable Placemaking, Planning and Urban Design
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The Role of Rewilding in Ecology
Ecologists will use reference landscapes to try and find the missing elements. Or if there's literally no pristine landscape left, they'll use historical ones. There's even a school of rewilding that says we should be looking at the end of the last ice age 12,000 years ago. And whatever was there, that's what we should be recreating - including woolly mammoths. I think here we're getting to a clone nation, big cloning, or bringing in like modern elephants,. translocating them into areas where you would have had a woolly mammoth because they sort of had similar behavior.
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