Rewilding
Restoring of wilderness environments
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| 2024 | A comprehensive paper was published offering a broad study of rewilding guidelines and interventions, further advancing the academic understanding of rewilding methodologies. |
| 2023 | Andrea Papi was fatally attacked by a brown bear in Italy, marking the first modern human death caused by a wild bear in the country. This incident escalated tensions between local residents and wildlife conservation efforts in the Trentino province. |
| November 2023 | Tatler magazine described rewilding as part of the worldview of the 'bopea' (bohemian peasant) movement in British socio-cultural circles. |
| February 17 2023 | A second cloned Przewalski's horse was born from the same historic cell line. This horse is a genetic twin to Kurt. |
| 2022 | Kurt, the cloned Przewalski's horse, was paired with a female Przewalski's horse at the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Safari Park to learn the behaviors of his species. |
| 2022 | Launched the Tetiꞌaroa Restoration Project in French Polynesia, continuing their commitment to island ecosystem conservation. |
| 2021 | The woolly mammoth de-extinction project was transferred to George Church, marking a shift in the organization's research focus. |
| 2021 | Mapperton Estate in Dorset began rewilding a 200-acre farm, which is one of the five farms composing the estate. |
| 2021 | Broughton Hall Estate in Yorkshire devoted approximately 1,100 acres (a third of the estate) to rewilding, with advice from Prof. Alastair Driver of Rewilding Britain. |
| 2021 | Conservation Biology journal published a collaborative paper on 'Guiding Principles for Rewilding', featuring 33 coauthors from North America, Europe, China, and South America, providing a comprehensive and unified approach to rewilding concepts and practices. |
| 2021 | The United Nations recognized rewilding as a key ecosystem restoration method during the launch of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, recommending its use for restoring over 1 billion hectares of ecosystem. |
| 2020 | Revive & Restore launched the 'Intended Consequences' campaign, highlighting the positive outcomes of conservation interventions. They hosted a virtual workshop which led to the publication of a special issue in the Conservation Science and Practice journal. |
| 2020 | Celtic Reptile and Amphibian, a limited company, was established with the aim of reintroducing extinct reptile and amphibian species to Britain, successfully achieving captive breeding of the moor frog. |
| 2020 | Nature writer Melissa Harrison reported increased public support for rewilding, with plans approved for releasing European bison, Eurasian elk, and great bustard in England, and calls to rewild 20% of land in East Anglia. |
| 2020 | The Archers continued to include rewilding storylines. |
| December 10 2020 | The world's first cloned black-footed ferret was born, named Elizabeth Ann. This marked the first time a U.S. endangered species was successfully cloned. |
| August 6 2020 | The world's first cloned Przewalski's horse was born, achieved through interspecies somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) using a domestic horse oocyte. This horse was named Kurt. |
| 2019 | Revive & Restore launched the Advanced Coral Toolkit program to support research teams in developing biotechnologies for coral reef management and restoration efforts. The program initially funded 10 research teams working on projects such as coral cryopreservation methods and developing fieldable devices for measuring coral stress. |
| 2019 | The British radio drama series The Archers featured storylines about rewilding areas. |
| 2019 | A pair of white storks, imported from Poland by the Roy Dennis Wildlife Foundation, built a nest in an oak tree at Knepp estate as part of a species reintroduction program. |
| 2019 | The Directorate of Galápagos National Park and Island Conservation used drones to eradicate invasive rats from North Seymour Island, marking the first time such a method was used on vertebrates in the wild. |
| 2019 | A study highlighted that eradicating invasive animals from 169 islands could improve survival prospects for 9.4% of the Earth's most threatened terrestrial insular vertebrates. |
| 2018 | Through the efforts of conservationists and a land donation by Kris Tompkins, an area was converted into a National Park, enabling the reintroduction of several extinct species including Giant anteater, Pampas deer, Collared peccary, Red and green macaw, giant river otter, and Jaguar. |
| 2017 | Revive & Restore became an independent 501(c)(3) organization, transitioning from its incubation by the Long Now Foundation. |
| 2017 | Reintroduction of yellow-footed tortoise and brown howler monkey completed in Tijuca National Park, Brazil, to improve seed dispersal and forest regeneration. |
| 2015 | Rewilding Britain, a charity advocating for rewilding in Britain, was founded with five key principles: supporting people and nature together, letting nature lead, creating resilient local economies, working at nature's scale, and securing long-term benefits. |
| 2015 | Initiated the Acteon-Gambier Archipelago Restoration Project in French Polynesia, focusing on ecological restoration and conservation efforts. |
| January 2014 | The Choros Island Restoration Project was completed in January, benefiting the Humboldt penguin, Peruvian diving petrel, and local eco-tourism industry in Chile. |
| 2013 | Revive & Restore organized the first public meeting on de-extinction, bringing together experts to discuss the potential of resurrecting extinct species through biotechnology. |
| 2012 | Stewart Brand and Ryan Phelan co-founded Revive & Restore, establishing an organization focused on applying biotechnology solutions to conservation efforts. |
| 2012 | Rewilding Europe began its active involvement in the Tauros Programme, a project aimed at creating a cattle breed resembling the extinct aurochs through selective breeding of existing cattle breeds. |
| 2012 | Rare wildlife discoveries were made during monitoring on Rábida Island, including a gecko previously only known from subfossils estimated over 5,700 years old and rediscovery of endemic land snails not seen for over 100 years. |
| 2012 | The Pinzon and Plaza Sur Island Restoration Project was completed, which resulted in Pinzón giant tortoises successfully hatching and surviving in the wild for the first time in over 150 years. |
| 2011 | 'Rewilding Europe' initiative was founded with an ambitious goal of rewilding one million hectares of land across ten different areas in Europe by 2020, including regions like the western Iberian Peninsula, Velebit, the Carpathians, and the Danube delta. |
| 2010 | Reintroduction of red-rumped agouti began in Tijuca National Park, Brazil, as part of a seed dispersal restoration project. |
| 2010 | Island Conservation began developing and implementing island restoration projects in the Pacific region, spanning multiple countries including Australia, French Polynesia, Tonga, Palau, Micronesia, and New Caledonia. |
| 2010 | Island Conservation completed the Rábida Island Restoration Project in Ecuador, marking a significant conservation effort in the Galápagos region. |
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