Urban rewilding has brought back beavers, hornbills and platypuses to city parks – and that’s just the start If we want greener, wilder and more resilient cities, we can’t stop at plants. It’s time to bring the animals back too.
The Rio Grande Valley was once covered in forest. One man is trying to bring it back. The Tamaulipan thorn forest once covered 1 million acres on both sides of the Mexico-U.S. border. Restoring even a fraction of it could help the region cope with the ravages of a warming world.
Urban rewilding has brought back beavers, hornbills and platypuses to city parks – and that’s just the start If we want greener, wilder and more resilient cities, we can’t stop at plants. It’s time to bring the animals back too.
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Urban rewilding has brought back beavers, hornbills and platypuses to city parks – and that’s just the start