
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
Native American Seed – Wildflowers and Native Prairie Grasses
Directory — Reforestation, Nurseries and Genetics Resources
National Wildlife Rehabilitator Association: Directory & Help Page
Responsible hunting offers significant benefits for wildlife conservation | The Wilderness Society
Passing Along the Hunting Ethic | U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
