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Spring 2025
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Rewilding; aquatic; restoration
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This relatively new concept has been used mainly in various European projects that in words of the European Rewilding project, the leading organization in rewilding, is helping preserve Europe biodiversity richness and enhance benefits that nature provides to humans (Rewilding Europe, n.d.). This rewilding method is also applied in the aquatic ecosystem, which is often called marine rewilding or freshwater rewilding, and it can be applied to any freshwater, brackish, or saltwater. Therefore, for the purpose of uniting them we will call it aquatic rewilding.
There are many aquatic restoration projects and research compared to aquatic rewilding projects and organizations that focus on generating a rewilding impact. Even so, thanks to the recent boom interest in land rewilding, many initiatives all over the world have some part of aquatic rewilding or are focused on it entirely. The leading continent in rewilding projects is Europe and so it is in aquatic rewilding. Therefore, I will explore the three following European rewilding projects and use them us case studies:
• First the organization “Sea wilding”, that is rewilding Loch Craignish, Argyll and Loch Broom, Wester Ross, mainly using oysters and seagrass (Seawilding | Native Oyster Reintroduction, Loch Craignish, Scotland, n.d.).
• Second, the ”Sussex Kelp Recovery Project” is recovering the kelp forest of the Sussex coastline, England (Rewilding the Sussex seabed, n.d.).
• Third, the Rewilding Europe project, ”Oder Delta”, that aims to restore freshwater and coastal ecosystem in the Oder Delta in Germany and Poland (Oder Delta, n.d.)(Fig 3.). Were this projects beneficial for the region? we hypothesize that these projects were beneficial for the region as they likely enhanced the ecosystem
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