Bringing Rewilding 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 storytelling, resources, & opportunities that support citizens & organizations practicing community rewilding in New Jersey.

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 conservation strategies. Conservation Rewilding drives balance by maximizing the functionality of ecosystems through restoration practices that focus on coexistence, ecological relationships, habitat connectivity, and the overall enhancement of biodiversity. 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 net gain for 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 human origins. Human Rewilding is defined by practicing life ways that promote wellbeing, resilience, and self-sufficiency such as foraging, herbalism, homesteading, hunting, fishing, reskilling, ancestral knowledge, permaculture, holistic wellness, composting, beekeeping, astronomy, wilderness survival, primitive lifeways, orienteering, bushcraft, communal sharing, and more. Human Rewilding is a rediscovery of 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 counterbalances modern challenges through citizen-led scalable rewilding efforts that support nature and people in homes, schools, churches, parks, and more. Community Rewilding focuses change locally- in the power of local people, benefiting local environments, and maximizing local resources. The product of combing Conservation Rewilding and Human Rewilding, Community Rewilding in practice works to Rewild Land, restore nature, and Rewild Self, transform people, creating a physical, social, and spiritual change in our daily lives. Learn more about Community Rewilding here. 

Help to Rewild NJ.

Join the Rewild NJ Movement.

Practice Community Rewilding.

Take action with Coalitions.

Learn at Community Virtual Meetings.

Connect on the Movement Facebook Group.

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 advocacy 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. She is the Founder of Rewilding4Republicans, a platform challenging political stereotypes about the environment. Entering the environmental advocacy community on the State and National level, Francesca serves on the Pitman Environmental Commission, on the Board of Trustees for the Association of New Jersey Environmental Commissions (ANJEC), and as the New Jersey Ambassador for the American Conservation Coalition (ACC).

To learn more about Fran, visit About the Founder & The Origin Story.

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