Post 4: Rewilding Europe

Jessica Aldred, Eric Hilaire, Paddy Allen, photographs from Rewilding Europe

theguardian.com, Tuesday 15 October 2013 12.10 BST

This article is about a project of WWF and others organizations of reincorporate some animals to their originals habitat in some parts of Europe, called “Rewilding Europe”, and its objective is to give back some balance to the planet and allow the natural progress that in our context it’s always stopped or interrupted by the man.

This project plans to incorporate species to ten different habitats, in a total area of 1000 hectares and five of those habitats are already incorporating the species.  The article announced the area number six, which is The Central Apennines in Italy, and the other four areas are unknowns yet.

The areas in which the project is already working are Spain and Portugal, Italy, Croatia, Slovakia and Poland, the west side of Romania, and finally, its east side.  And all the areas chosen are important and large natural places, with a lot of biodiversity and without human intervention except for the hunting.

Another reason to returns these animals to their original habitat is because some of them are disappearing very fast in a short time, and taking them back to their habitat it means the decreased of the threat of an unnatural habitat and the decrease of the human’s  damage, and produce the restart of the normal reproduction of the species too.  And with the objective of keeping the species reintroduced, the hunting, a very common recreational activity done in all of the European forests, it’s going to be reduced for the moment and maybe in a future, finally abolished.