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What is Rewilding? A Radical New Science

  Rewilding involves a range of activities concerned with conservation efforts aimed at restoring affected ecosystems and protecting natural ecosystems. Its basic aim is to restore ecosystems, focusing on recreating an area’s natural state before intervention. Rewilding engages with the idea of letting nature heal itself. It is an approach to restoring sustainable biodiversity and ecosystem […]

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Episode 28: Understanding the Illegal Wildlife Trade with Alice Pasqualato

With an annual turnover of USD 199 million, the illegal wildlife trade is the fourth largest illicit market in the world, after drugs, arms, and human trafficking. Amongst all known threats to wildlife, the illegal trade and consumption of wildlife is amongst the most significant and destabilizing. Moreover, the negative consequences of wildlife crime are

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What are peatlands and why are they important?

Peatlands or mires are terrestrial wetland ecosystems characterised by deep, layered depositions of peat. Peat is a result of incomplete or partial decomposition of organic matter as water-logged conditions prevent organic matter from decomposing completely. Peatlands can hence be considered an intermediate between wetland and fully terrestrial habitats as their surfaces are hydrated for long

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How are ecosystem services valued?

In India, around 300 million people rely directly on natural ecosystems for sustenance. This is in the form of food, firewood, grazing pastures, nontimber food produce and medicine. Moreover, even urban populations often benefit from natural habitats! These benefits from natural landscapes are often referred to as ecosystem services. In this article. we discuss exactly

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How are seas being rewilded?

Rewilding the seas typically involves restoring and protecting marine ecosystems to their natural state, promoting biodiversity, and allowing for the recovery of marine species and habitats. Let us explore some methods on how seas are being rewilded! How are seas being rewilded? Marine Protected Area: Establishing protected areas where human activities such as fishing or

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Playing A Zero-Sum Game: Exploring Fortress Conservation

Fortress conservation is a centralized conservation model based on the belief that the ideal method of biodiversity protection is by creating protected areas with no human disturbances, where ecosystems can function in isolation. This form of conservation assumes that the use of ecosystem services by local communities can be destructive and directly accelerates biodiversity loss.

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Interview 1: In Search of the World’s Wild Cats with Stuart Chapman

Welcome to The Think Wildlife Podcast. In our first episode, join our hosts, Anish Banerjee, as he speaks to Stuart Chapman about his passion for the world’s wild cats,  the success of  TX2, the future of tiger conservation  and  threats faced by the smaller felines. Stuart Chapman is a renowned conservationist with over three decade of

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