Does forgetting to cut your lawn for weeks on end count as rewilding? What about *not* hazing the coyotes that I regularly see biking home from school? In thinking about how to support more ecological integrity in urban spaces, I feel like there’s a whole bunch of everyday things that we can not intervene in to protect natural systems around us.
I have a few colleagues and neighbours who are rewilding their lawns, which sometimes causes neighbourhood conflict (because the grass looks "messy"). But this is something we know promotes fantastic bird and insect biodiversity compared with Kentuc