There are lots of people cheering this on but it’s an approach founded on landed power. It’s not interested in democratising nature, just in concentrating ecological agency among those who can afford it. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/sep/04/its-going-to-be-our-way-now-the-guerrilla-rewilder-shaking-up-british-farming-aoe

Top tip for minted re-wilding advocates: make the public case for re-wilding! If you have to buy up private land and make rogue reintroductions, then you are either losing the argument or not trying.

Re-wilding is a blueprint for the future of land which is to say for the future of place. You can buy land, but place is collective. You can either work to build consent within communities, or you’re going to impose ecological order through landlordism.