A CQUniversity researcher hopes grazing cattle can help with the process that he coined ‘rewilding’.
Rewilding is the restoration of self-sustaining ecosystems, while minimising human intervention, to return an area to its natural state and promote threatened species to thrive.
CQUniversity Adjunct Professor Iain Gordon argued domestic livestock could actually support the process, in a recent study published in the international Sustainability journal. Professor Iain Gordon at a recent Gladstone Healthy Harbour Partnership event in Gladstone.
The renowned zoologist, who is based in Townsville, has worked across Africa, Asia, South America, Europe and Australia.
He explained ‘Rewilding Lite’ was a less extreme version of the popular movement which included ‘wildlife-friendly farming’, meaning domestic grazers gradually allowed environmental conditions to become wilder while still producing cattle.
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