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Pleistocene rewilding aims at the promotion of extant fauna and the reintroduction of extinct genera in the southwestern and central United States. Native fauna are the first genera proposed for reintroduction.
Pleistocene rewilding would deliberately promote large, long‐lived species over pest and weed assemblages, facilitate the persistence and ecological effectiveness of megafauna on a global scale, and broaden the underlying premise of conservation from managing extinction to encompass restoring ecological and evolutionary processes.
Pleistocene rewilding is at its core true to the original concept of rewilding, as it recognizes the important ecosystem-shaping role of large vertebrates, but made a major departure by arguing for the ecological replacement of long-extinct species.
Pleistocene rewilding is an idea that has been proposed for all sorts of areas across the world. This type of rewilding isn’t just about the Pleistocene, despite its name. It can also involve species from other time periods (or, more accurately, epochs) as well.
Pleis-tocene rewilding can begin immediately with species such as Bolson tortoises and feral horses and continue through the coming decades with elephants and Holarctic lions. Our exemplar taxa would con-tribute biological, economic, and cultural benefits to North America.
10 January 2022. Pleistocene dreams: recreating ancient grasslands to save the planet. Sergey Zimov is rewilding a remote part of northeastern Siberia to help fight climate change. By. Olga...
A plan to restore animals that disappeared 13,000 years ago from Pleistocene North America offers an alternative conservation strategy for the twenty-first century, argue Josh Donlan and...
At present, there are four distinct framings that can be recognised in the literature: Pleistocene rewilding; trophic rewilding; passive rewilding; and ecological rewilding. Pleistocene rewilding generally refers to restoring ecological processes lost because of the late-Pleistocene megafaunal extinctions.
Pleistocene rewilding would deliberately promote large, long-lived species over pest and weed assemblages, facilitate the persistence and ecological effectiveness of megafauna on a global...
A particular type of trophic rewilding is Pleistocene rewilding, which aims to restore ecosystems that include and are shaped by populations of megafauna extirpated since the Late Pleistocene, taking a long-term evolutionary perspective on biodiversity and ecosystems . In contrast, ecological (or passive) rewilding emphasizes the passive ...