The term ‘rewilding’ is relatively new, having been used in an ecological context for the first time just over 30 years ago (Foreman et al., 1992; Noss, 1992). Yet, despite the novelty of the term, the concept of rewilding is not new, and in recent practice, rewilding has taken on a wide variety of meanings. The term itself harkens both to the early German word ‘will’, which described places or creatures not under human domination, and wild-doer-ness (or naess in Old English) that connoted a place of self-willed creatures (Johns, 2019). Wildlands, then, can be considered self-willed lands or wilderness, and rewilding the process by which this state is recovered (Johns, 2019).