How can rewilding help combat climate change?

Rewilding, or letting nature take care of itself, can restore stability to damaged ecosystem components which support life on earth, like fungi, bacteria, vegetation, insects and animals.

But there's now a wider discussion to discover what it’s capable of on a wider scale.

International agreements for reducing the impact of climate change tend to set global targets.

However, individual governments decide how to work towards meeting those goals at a national level.

Some rewilding initiatives improve biodiversity, but it can have negative impacts too.

This week on The Inquiry, we’re asking ‘How can rewilding help combat climate change?’

Contributors:

Carolina Soto-Navarro, head of Wilder Nature at Rewilding Europe

Brendan Fisher, professor in the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, at University of Vermont, US

David Nogues Bravo, professor in biodiversity, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Steve Carver, professor of rewilding and wilderness science, University of Leeds, UK

Presenter: Charmaine Cozier

Producers: Jill Collins and Daniel Rosney

Researcher: Evie Yabsley

Editor: Tom Bigwood

Technical Producer: Cameron Ward

Production Management: Phoebe Lomas and Liam Morrey

(Photo: Galapagos giant tortoise. Credit: Anadolu/Getty Images)