Tag: conservation

  • Adventures from the Knepp Estate England Part III

    Adventures from the Knepp Estate England Part III

    By: Francesca Mundrick, Founder & Executive Director The Knepp Estate is a 3,500-acre rewilding project in West Sussex, England. Over the past few decades, Knepp has become an internationally recognized example of success for rewilding in practice. Over thirty years, the rewilding practices at Knepp took hold and with that, sustainable business followed. Knepp offers the…

  • The Loop of Self-Sufficiency

    The Loop of Self-Sufficiency

    By: Anna Bergen, Outreach & Engagement Intern When transforming your backyard into a self-sustaining ecosystem, it’s best to start with simplicity. My family is trying to mimic natural cycles, within a contained space, that being my own backyard. At my house, we have a rainwater collector, which contains and stores water that can be used…

  • Wilderness Life In The 21st Century?

    Wilderness Life In The 21st Century?

    By: Jonathan Kocsis, Lead Intern When hearing the words wilderness survival, most think about being stranded on a deserted island and having to survive by any means necessary. What most people wouldn’t do is willingly sign up for the opportunity to do this at just 13; however, that is exactly what I did during my…

  • Domain or Stewardship? Interpreting Our Relationship with Nature Through Genesis

    Domain or Stewardship? Interpreting Our Relationship with Nature Through Genesis

    By: Dare Euler, Rewild NJ Movement Member Genesis 1:26 Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that…

  • Episode 1: Conservation, Knepp, & Rewilding England

    Episode 1: Conservation, Knepp, & Rewilding England

    Tony Whitbread President, Sussex Wildlife Trust Check out this story & more on the Rewild NJ Podcast! Get notified for every new post. Subscribe Today! We are Preserving the Wild Spirit of New Jersey. Get notified of every new post. Subscribe Today! Help to Rewild NJ. Learn More & Connect Email: rewildnjcc@gmail.com Follow us on social…

  • Adventures from the Knepp Estate England Part I

    Adventures from the Knepp Estate England Part I

    By: Francesca Mundrick, Founder & Executive Director In my early search for rewilding knowledge and community, I found a book called Wilding by Isabella Tree. Wilding tells the story of the Knepp Estate, a famed, internationally recognized rewilding project. The Knepp Estate sits on a 3,500-acre area near Horsham in West Sussex, England. After inheriting the…

  • Reconnecting with Lenapehoking: We Are All Keepers of This Land Now!

    Reconnecting with Lenapehoking: We Are All Keepers of This Land Now!

    By: Ty “Dancing Wolf” Ellis, Advisory Board Member Lenapehoking is what the Lenape traditionally & currently still call these lands; a territory in which New Jersey is the only state that is entirely within (next to the partial inclusion of Delaware, Pennsylvania, and New York). With generations of forced erasures of culture and the removal…

  • Memory in the Concrete: Rewilding Through Bioregionalism

    Memory in the Concrete: Rewilding Through Bioregionalism

    By: Sam Scalio, Outreach & Engagement Intern I grew up in South Philly, where green space can be hard to find, and having a tree on your block or two made it stand out amongst other streets. My neighborhood, as well as most of South Philly, consists of row homes, sometimes expansive, then narrow sidewalks,…

  • Thou Shalt Not Kill a Living Thing

    Thou Shalt Not Kill a Living Thing

    By: Dare Euler, Rewild NJ Movement Member My journey into rewilding began as a child living in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.  Always preferring the outdoors, this rural area of Interlaken had it all. Woods, fields, lake, beaver ponds, mountain. I was the nerdy kid who had collections of the natural world around me. Rocks identified and classified.…

  • Beyond the Backyard: My Journey into Rewilding and the Deep Connection with Nature

    Beyond the Backyard: My Journey into Rewilding and the Deep Connection with Nature

    By: Jonathan Kocsis, Lead Intern While I have just entered the world of rewilding, I have learned that it’s more than just planting trees or growing your food. It’s about changing how we see nature and our place within it; we are not separate from nature but a vital part of it. From the air…