News articles
Urban rewilding has brought back beavers, hornbills and platypuses to city parks – and that’s just the start. The Conversation.
‘Guerrilla rewilding’ aims for DIY conservation – but it may do more harm than good. The Conversation.
Podcasts
Urban Rewilding, with Patt Finnerty. 17 June 2025. BioScience Talks.
Rewilding our cities. 8 June 2025. Sunday Extra, ABC Radio National.
How ‘urban rewilding’ is helping endangered species. 30 May 2025. Weekend Evenings.
Self Improvement Wednesday: Urban rewilding. 18 September 2025. Sydney Drive, ABC Radio Sydney.
Conference presentations
Mendel, B.M. 2025. Species prioritisation for rewilding: Harnessing trait databases to inform population viability analysis. Australasian Wildlife Management Society conference, Queenstown, New Zealand, 2-4 December.
Research papers
Boer-Cueva, M., Cairncross, R., Crowther, M.S., Finnerty, P.B., Raña, A.F., Banks, P.B. and Newsome, T.M., 2025. Life in the big smoke: terrestrial vertebrate assemblages and their drivers along an urbanisation gradient in Sydney, Australia. Wildlife Research, 52(2).
Finnerty, P.B., Carthey, A.J., Banks, P.B., Brewster, R., Grueber, C.E., Houston, D., Martin, J.M., McManus, P., Roncolato, F., van Eeden, L.M. and Wauchope, M., 2025. Urban rewilding to combat global biodiversity decline. BioScience, p.biaf062.
Wauchope, M., Finnerty, P.B., Pierson, J.C., Banks, P.B., Carthey, A.J. and Newsome, T.M., 2025. Who’s been lost from the landscape? Identifying missing terrestrial fauna to inform urban rewilding. Pacific Conservation Biology, 31(3).
Brewster, R., Jameson, T., Roncolato, F., Crowther, M.S., Finnerty, P.B. and Newsome, T.M., 2024. Islands in the sky–could complex topography help us rewild beyond the fence?. Pacific Conservation Biology, 30(5).
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