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Week of wonder: Inside the rewilding movement

    A beaver swims in a pond after being released on October 11, 2023 in Greenford, England. A family of 5 beavers, 2 adults and 3 kits, were released back into Paradise Fields reserve in west London, and will be the the first beavers in the west of the capital for 400 years. (Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
    A beaver swims in a pond after being released on October 11, 2023 in Greenford, England. A family of 5 beavers, 2 adults and 3 kits, were released back into Paradise Fields reserve in west London, and will be the the first beavers in the west of the capital for 400 years. (Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

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    In places where human beings have done everything they can to pave and plow over nature, what might happen if we just left those places alone? Inside the rewilding movement.

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    Isabella Tree, British author and conservationist. She and her husband live on the 3,500-acre Knepp Estate, which they started rewilding in 2002. Co-author of “The Book of Wilding: A Practical Guide to Rewilding, Big and Small."

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    Joey Algiers, restoration ecologist with the National Park Service for the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area.

    Emily Iskin, postdoctoral research fellow at Boise State University.

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