Rewilding Magazine
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Rewilding Magazine is an independent publication dedicated to exploring the people, places, ideas and debates connected to the global rewilding movement. We are a resource for those seeking inspiration on how to improve the human relationship with the natural world, and a community for those who want to make the planet a better place for all.
We believe rewilding has the potential to capture the world’s imagination in the fight against climate change, and that it’s more motivating to work toward something than to be against something. We believe the planet needs more wild spaces and more biodiversity, and that we’re all better off when more people are engaged with nature.
Our vision of rewilding covers everything from backyard pollinator gardens to the reintroduction of large mammals in conservation areas, from personal projects to multinational initiatives on land and in the oceans. It also encompasses the human aspect of rewilding: not just learning to live lighter on the earth, with respect for the other living beings that make their home here, but also recognizing that the impacts of environmental devastation are not borne equally by all.
While we are based in Canada, nature knows no national boundaries, and we aim to tell and share stories from across the planet. As settlers on land that has been home to Indigenous peoples for millennia, we recognize that our viewpoints and experiences contain gaps and biases. The environmental movement has a problematic, often racist and exclusionary history; fighting for a sustainable future must include fighting against social inequality. We endeavour to include and to amplify diverse perspectives in our storytelling. Source
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Search ArticlesPlanting mangroves to defend communities
The Indian Ocean coastline of northern Mozambique is a sandy flatland where palm tree forests dominate the interior whilst near the shore, mangrove trees line the mouths of the blue sea. Despite being the poorest part of the country, it’s an idyllic land of beauty where the biggest human populations prefer to live near the ocean for the ease of trade and to forage seafood resources.
The making of an urban forest
Barren land stretched before Vijay Dhasmana as he stepped onto the scarred remains of an abandoned mining site at the fringes of the city of Gurugram, which borders Delhi. Decades of quartzite mining and sand quarrying had stripped the land of its topsoil. There was hardly any vegetation, Dhasmana recalls, except a lone Peepul tree (Ficus religiosa) in the distance, some seasonal grasses, and highly invasive Prosopis juliflora shrubs.
The artist who co-performs with plants
Nicole McDonald-Fournier doesn’t work alone. The Montréal-based artist counts hundreds, maybe thousands of others as co-performers of her EmballeToi! series. Yet we couldn’t interview any of her collaborators for this story. That’s because McDonald-Fournier’s artistic partners are not people. They’re plants. Since 2012, McDonald-Fournier and her plants have been creating artwork that defies definition. Some have called it land art. Others see it as installation work.
5 things every wildlife garden needs
The most common advice for creating wildlife habitat for birds, insects, and amphibians has been to plant native plants, which is extremely important. However, there are also a few simple resources you can add to gardens to better cater to animals’ needs, allowing them to thrive in your yard. 1. Woody materials Many gardeners already install bird boxes and bee hotels without realizing what they are imitating.
The artist mapping buffalo repatriation
The North American bison, also referred to as buffalo, looms large physically, ecologically, culturally and historically. The ungulate is a keystone species of the plains. It’s a sacred symbol and traditional source of food, clothing and more for many Indigenous nations. And its near extinction in the 1800s is closely tied to colonization, the growth of Canada (not to mention the U.S.) and the country’s fraught relationship with Indigenous peoples.
The English estate rewilding a river – and more
I can tell Lee Hullin loves Hinton Ampner. Every so often on this bright sunny day in April, after we clamber out of his 4x4 to admire yet another aspect of this 1,650-acre estate in Hampshire, southern England, he marvels at a herd of Sussex rare-breed cattle materializing through the trees, at the trill of a skylark, and at the soft burble of an icy chalk stream.
Bringing Great Lakes sand dunes back to life
As Sarah Emons steps onto a stretch of beach with a restored sand dune, she immediately enters a different world from the groomed and sterile shoreline she’s just left. Swallows dart overhead, insects buzz, and the lake breeze keeps the beach grass in constant motion. “It’s so much more alive,” she says. Forming at the back of beaches, the sand dunes throughout North America’s Great Lakes region make up the largest freshwater dune system in the world.
Q&A: Common questions about rewilding your garden
Browsing colourful photos of meadow-like front yards and picturing a backyard oasis of wild bergamot, wood poppy, lance-leaf coreopsis and bright black-eyed Susans (or their equivalents in your neck of the woods) is enough to get just about anyone ready to rewild. It’s the kind of project that feels good on many levels: you get outside, work with your hands, plants start to grow and pollinators show up.
Meet the artists rewilding culture
What began as an experiment is blossoming into a creative movement. In 2022, the David Suzuki Foundation in partnership with this magazine introduced the Rewilding Arts Prize, recognizing six winners and seven runners-up for their artistic works on the theme of rewilding. This year, the second instalment of the prize garnered more than 650 applications from across Canada.
What is nature and what is it good for?
This text is excerpted with permission from Concrete Botany: The Ecology of Plants in the Age of Human Disturbance by Joey Santore (Cool Springs Press, 2026). I now refrain from using the word “nature” when referring to the nonhuman-built world because it implies that “nature” is a separate entity from humanity.