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    It is not the case that Rewilding is conceptually distinct from traditional ecological restoration

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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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    • 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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