Rewilding Ecological Future

Human development threatens ecosystem health as infrastructure degrades surrounding environments. The anthropogenic degradation adversely affects both the ecological community and human community. Due to the importance of the biotic community, extensive research has been conducted to discover preventative plan to prevent detrimental, irreversible issues. Unfortunately, a vast majority of the planet's ecosystems already face the harmful impacts of human development -- eroded land, biodiversity loss, extinction, and many other ecological tragedies. However, the bleak future of degraded ecosystems melts in the hope for a better future through the process of rewilding natural ecosystems.
Rewilding will restore ecological biodiversity in areas

While future is uncertain, a positive ecological future seems within a reasonable reach with the use of recent environmental innovation such as rewilding. Similarly to the future, rewilding is also uncertain. However, we can scientifically hypothesize that positive futures will arise from the use of the method. “In ways distinct from other forms of conservation, these rewildings mobilize the past to govern the present and to anticipate particular futures. These interventions entangle science and myth, reconciling engineering, bureaucracy, and the technologies of political economy with enchanting appeals to an aesthetic primordial.” (Lorimer and Driessen, pg. 633). The key aspect is that the “particular futures” created through rewilding are merely anticipated - meaning the “wild” approach as nature reclaims and restores itself contains some uncertainty. The partial ambiguity of the future resulting from the wilderness combined with the guideline of the past opens the door to imagination -- one not restrained by previous conservation efforts. One of these creative solutions is Pleistocene rewilding, which “would be achieved through a series of carefully managed ecosystem manipulations using closely related species as proxies for extinct large vertebrates, and would change the underlying premise of conservation biology from managing extinction

Evidence has shown that, if used, rewilding will be able to restore natural ecosystems -- presenting itself as a very realistic option. Rewilding does reside in the hope that humanity will desire a better future, but this vision is not far from reality. Second, critics argue that with the increased imagination, rewilding has yet to the significant gain focus it needs to become a solution. “Rewilding has gained increasing attention from scientists, conservationists, and the mass media. Yet, it has raised highly divergent perspectives as to which ecological processes and species assemblages should be restored.” (Fernandez, Navarro and Pereira, pg. 267). However, the temporary divergence may be remedied as scientist gain a sort of consensus on the most important elements of conservation through rewilding. Though such an agreement may be more difficult to achieve, the benefits on the ecological systems justify efforts to come to such an understanding. The fractionalization is, therefore, rightly criticized, as such an agreement should improve conservation. Rewilding imagines a good future with a plethora of useful solutions that have yet to gain consensus, yet the method is a significant conservation solution and should be considered as a means to produce a better