In this episode of Earthlings 2.0, we speak with Alister Scott, Executive Director of the Global Rewilding Alliance, about the growing global rewilding movement and how ecosystem restoration could play a major role in addressing biodiversity loss, climate resilience, flooding, wildfire risk, and human well-being. The conversation explores what rewilding actually means: restoring ecosystems by reducing destructive human activity, reconnecting habitats through wildlife corridors, and reintroducing keystone species like wolves, beavers, bison, jaguars, and whales that help ecosystems regulate themselves naturally.

Links to other topics discussed in the interview:

• The list of the Global Rewilding Alliance’s partner projects on every continent can be found here
• Ben Goldfarb’s book, Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter, by Ben Goldfarb
• Vanuatu’s Protected Area Status with the Protected Planet Initiative‘s protected area
• Videos that showcase the rewilding spirit
  • Principles of rewilding
  • Imagining a rewilded Earth
  • A rewilded language
• Wild heroes:
  • Hippos
  • Otters
  • Beavers