
Passive rewilding
Previously inhabited areas reclaimed by vegetation and wildlife

Previously inhabited areas reclaimed by vegetation and wildlife
Passive rewilding refers to actively unmanaged environments that are allowed to regain natural dominance, typically after their abandonment. A type of rewilding, passive rewilding aims to restore natural ecosystem processes via minimal or the total withdrawal of direct human management of the landscape. Passive rewilding allows natural processes to restore themselves, and enables a particular level of chaos as woodlands reclaim land, species return and ecological disturbances like wildfires, pests, and floods contribute to the area. Sometimes referred to as natural regeneration, spontaneous regeneration, and, informally, as nature's reclamation, it differs from other forms of rewilding in that direct human management or intervention is absent, whereby the environment is subsequently overgrown and occupied by natural elements on its own. In 1998, science fiction author Bruce Sterling coined the term involuntary park to describe previously inhabited areas that for environmental, economic...
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