C1 Environment Rewilding

Rewilding, in ______(essential), is a simple concept: areas of wilderness are identified for restoration, native animals and plants are re-introduced, and natural processes take over.

Why might the average person be ________(draw) to the idea of rewilding?

We cannot ______(call) things that are beyond living memory, let alone a time when wild pigs and deer ran rampant through forests.

A ______(vie) food chain must start with pollinators, such as bees and hoverflies.

And if _____(nose) sceptics are worried that rewilding comes at a cost to the taxpayer, they should note the income derived from wildlife tourism for struggling rural communities.

In Spain’s Guadarrama hills, for example, wolves appear to be breeding, to the joy of ______(conserve), and to the consternation of shepherds, some of whom have already lost sheep and cattle to these predators.

How to make the ‘circle of life’ more acceptable to wider society will be no easy task for pioneers in the rewilding ______(move).

Few people would be blind to the advantages of limiting plastic consumption or argue against protecting elephants from ____(poaching).

Hopefully, fifty years from now, with ecosystems flourishing again, people will question why our generation ever saw rewilding as _____(controversy).