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dc.contributor.authorClancy, C
dc.contributor.authorWard, Kimberley
dc.date.accessioned2020-05-11T12:50:11Z
dc.date.issued2020-06
dc.identifier.issn0972-4923
dc.identifier.issn0975-3133
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/15652
dc.description.abstract

The last forty years have seen a dramatic increase in the number of great cormorants (Phalacrocorax carbo) moving inland away from British coastlines. Britain's largest inland colony currently reside at Walthamstow Wetlands, a nature reserve and functional reservoir system in northeast London, recently branded 'Europe's largest urban wetland'. Here, great cormorants are embroiled in contested ideas of nature. Celebrated by conservationists for their resilience and adaptability, yet hounded by anglers for launching ecological chaos on rivers and reservoirs and disrupting the balance that is imagined for urban recreational spaces. This paper argues for a more nuanced version of rewilding that acknowledges the biogeographical complexity and mobility of nonhumans in relation to radically altered ecologies and post-industrial urban environments. It uses the conceptual frame of more-than-human to examine the increased presence, mobility, and agency of great cormorants at Walthamstow Wetlands in terms of nonhuman autonomy and auto-rewilding. The findings demonstrate that the self-relocation and autonomous occupation of inland cormorants in Walthamstow are intimately entangled with human histories and activities, and that they are active alongside humans in creating novel ecosystems.

dc.format.extent126-126
dc.languageen
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherMedknow Publications
dc.titleAuto-rewilding in post-industrial cities: the case of inland cormorants in urban Britain
dc.typejournal-article
dc.typeJournal Article
plymouth.issue2
plymouth.volume18
plymouth.publication-statusPublished
plymouth.journalConservation and Society
dc.identifier.doi10.4103/cs.cs_19_71
plymouth.organisational-group/Plymouth
plymouth.organisational-group/Plymouth/Faculty of Science and Engineering
plymouth.organisational-group/Plymouth/Faculty of Science and Engineering/School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
plymouth.organisational-group/Plymouth/REF 2021 Researchers by UoA
plymouth.organisational-group/Plymouth/REF 2021 Researchers by UoA/UoA14 Geography and Environmental Studies
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plymouth.organisational-group/Plymouth/Research Groups/Centre for Research in Environment and Society (CeRES)
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dcterms.dateAccepted2020-03-24
dc.rights.embargodate2020-6-9
dc.identifier.eissn0975-3133
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rioxxterms.versionofrecord10.4103/cs.cs_19_71
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rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate2020-06
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