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    Rewilding is conceptually distinct from traditional ecolo... — Carmelics
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    Rewilding is conceptually distinct from traditional ecological restoration

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    • 1.Traditional restoration aims to re-create some original landscape or biological system
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    • 2.Rewilding need not be pursued with the intention of re-creating any original landscape or biological system
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    • 1.Both rewilding and traditional restoration share the normative aim of recovering ecological processes disrupted by human intervention.
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    • 2.Practices that share identical normative aims are not conceptually distinct, regardless of differences in target end-states.
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    • 3.The distinction between 'original landscape' and 'functional process' is a methodological difference, not a conceptual one.
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    • 1.Rewilding programs like Pleistocene rewilding explicitly invoke historical baselines (pre-human megafauna) as their ecological reference points.
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    • 2.If at least some paradigm cases of rewilding invoke historical restoration goals, then rewilding cannot be categorically distinguished from restoration by appeal to intentionality alone.
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    Despite the variety of positions in environmental ethics developed over the last thirty years, they have often focused on issues concerned with wilderness and the reasons for its preservation (see Callicott and Nelson 1998 for a collection of essays on the ideas and moral significance of wilderness). The importance of wilderness experience to the human psyche has been emphasized by many environmental philosophers. Næss, for instance, urges us to ensure we spend time dwelling in situations of int
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