1. A sense of belonging.
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MacIsaac, Fiona and Davidson, Magnus
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ECOSYSTEM management , *RESTORATION ecology , *TRADITIONAL knowledge , *FOOD chains - Abstract
The global authority in conservation, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) describes rewilding as "the process of rebuilding, following major human disturbance, a natural ecosystem by restoring natural processes and the complete or near complete food-web at all trophic levels as a self-sustaining and resilient ecosystem using biota that would have been present had the disturbance not occurred". The IUCN CEM Rewilding Thematic Group has set out 10 rewilding principles, of which the seventh recognises that rewilding be informed by both science and Indigenous and local knowledge. In Scotland, with no recognised Indigenous peoples - in itself a not-uncontested position - the rewilding movement can usefully look to be informed by two recognised Indigenous languages: Scots and Gaelic. [Extracted from the article]
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- 2022