How do I Rewild?

Key Principles

  • Increase biodiversity.
  • Create habitat connectivity.
  • Enhance ecosystem services.
  • Coexistence with wildlife.
  • Strengthen local environments.

Key Actions

  • Transform your property in small or large areas by including native plants, pollinator plants, native trees, ground covering plants, meadow clusters, & more.
  • Reduce or eliminate your use of pesticides, herbicides, and fertilizers on your property by choosing natural solutions.
  • Steward and protect existing trees on your property.
  • Welcome wildlife to your property by allowing for habitat space by adding leaf litter in areas, tree stumps and logs, water features, bats boxes, bird houses, insect houses, and more.
  • Change your views on norms including lawn culture, exclusion of nature, fear of wildlife, & apathy towards nature.
  • Promote and practice ethical, respectful, and sustainably hunting and fishing.
  • Utilize permaculture, regenerative agriculture, and organic farming strategies.
  • Support land preservation and wildlife conservation.
  • Make time for nature connectedness by going outdoors to green spaces and protected areas.
  • Connect with the teachings and life ways of your own ancestry, heritage, & familial generational knowledge- cooking, language, art, folklore, hunting, fishing, farming, bushcraft, foraging, herbalism, etc.

Rewilding Principles from Around the world

What is Rewilding? Dave Foreman and The Rewilding Institute Definition

The benefits and risks of rewilding – resource | IUCN

Rewilding Principles | Rewilding Europe

Resources

National Wildlife Federation: Certify Your Garden

National Wildlife Federation: Community Wildlife Habitats

National Wildlife Federation: State Partners

American Meadows

Native American Seed – Wildflowers and Native Prairie Grasses

Directory — Reforestation, Nurseries and Genetics Resources

National Wildlife Rehabilitator Association: Directory & Help Page

National Audubon Society

Responsible hunting offers significant benefits for wildlife conservation | The Wilderness Society

Passing Along the Hunting Ethic | U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service

USGS Protected Areas Explorer

Native-Land.ca | Our home on native land