Is urban rewilding problematic?

 Urban rewilding, a process that introduces nature into the city space to restore natural processes. In the essay we wrote this week, almost all of the sources were supporting rewilding, except for one. However I think the one source that was against urban rewilding had reasons that were not satisfactory nor valid.

The first argument that this source provided was that city spaces (they used cities in the UK as an example) don't have enough space to implement any sort of changes. This argument should not even be taken into consideration because the whole point of Urban Rewilding is to integrate nature within city environments, which was not acknowledged at all. An example a different source provided was sky gardens, which was just nature on buildings, which doesn't require any additional space at all as it's just going to be on top of something that has already been built. Places like New York City and Singapore are able to set aside large spaces of land for parks in the middle of each respective city, so I think the argument that there isn't sufficient space can automatically be ruled out.

Another argument was that the final outcome of urban rewilding could be different than what was intended. I think this reason is especially stupid due to the fact that it's not encouraging urban rewilding, which has proven to work very well, and doesn't provide any specific examples which could prove their statement. With the amount of information we know about wildlife and geology, I think that with proper planning, research, and execution Urban Rewilding would have a very high success rate and problems that may arise would be minor. Ruling out urban rewilding just because the end result of it could have a small chance of being different than what it's supposed to, sounds like they are just trying hard to find reasons to show why rewilding should not be used.

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