Bringing the Rewild Revolution to New Jersey.

Rewild New Jersey Community Cooperative (RNJCC) is a nonprofit organization building a grassroots movement for state-wide community rewilding. 

In a highly transitional, technological, globalized modern world, we can achieve sovereignty by rewilding our land & ourselves.

RNJCC offers connections, resources, & opportunities that support citizens & organizations rewilding New Jersey and beyond.

Conservation Rewilding

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Human Rewilding

Community Rewilding

What is Conservation Rewilding?

Conservation Rewilding is an approach that prioritizes nature-first, nature-led ecological restoration strategies. Conservation Rewilding drives balance by maximizing the functionality of ecosystems through restoration practices that focus on coexistence, ecological relationships, habitat connectivity, increasing biodiversity and, overall, low management strategies. While historically associated with megafauna reintroduction, wilderness conservation, and the Three Cs Model (Cores, Corridors, and Carnivores), Conservation Rewilding in practice is now seen as any benefit to nature regardless of scale. Learn more about Conservation Rewilding here.

What is Human Rewilding?

Human Rewilding is an approach that reconnects people to the knowledge provided by the innate wildness of our primitive human origins. Human Rewilding is defined by the practice of reskilling and lost ways which promotes self-sufficiency in the post-industrial modern world. Reskilling activities include foraging, herbalism, homesteading, hunting, fishing, ancestral knowledge, weaving, permaculture, holistic wellness, composting, beekeeping, textile making, astronomy, wilderness survival, primitive lifeways, orienteering, bushcraft, and more. Human Rewilding in practice is a rediscovery of the power that exists within the human spirit. Learn more about Human Rewilding here.

What is Community Rewilding?

Community Rewilding is an approach that re-establishes the connection between local environments and the people who live there. Community Rewilding is a pillar of the localization movement because it shifts power back to local people and environments with the application of scalable rewilding efforts in community centers such as homes, schools, workplaces, churches, parks, community gardens, civic centers, and more. Combining elements of both Conservation Rewilding and Human Rewilding in practice, this approach counterbalances modern challenges by helping people to achieve sovereignty. Learn more about Community Rewilding here. 

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About the Founder

Francesca Mundrick

Francesca Mundrick is from the State of New Jersey where she is an academic and rising leader in the environmental community. Francesca is an alumna of the Rowan University Department of Geography, Planning, & Sustainability where she now teaches as a 3/4 Time Professor of Geography. Francesca graduated with a Master of Environmental Studies from the University of Pennsylvania in 2019 and is now pursuing a PhD of Sustainability Education in a hybrid program with Prescott College in Arizona. Entering into environmental advocacy, she is the Founder of Rewilding for Liberty and NJ Republicans for Environmentalism, platforms challenging limiting political and social stereotypes and partisan barriers surrounding the environment. Francesca also serves on the Board of Trustees for the Association of New Jersey Environmental Commissions (ANJEC).

To learn more about Fran, visit About the Founder.

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