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CRC-TRR 228 Future Rural Africa @crctrr228.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Rewilding is often framed around the “three C’s”: Carnivores, Cores and Corridors. Drawing on research in Southern Africa, this study proposes three “B’s”: Bovines, Buffers and Barriers. Bringing the social dimensions of rewilding into focus. ➡️ crc-trr228.de/new-publicat...

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New Publication: Rethinking Rewilding - From the “Three C’s” to the “Three B’s” - Collaborative Research Center TRR 228

Wisse Van Engelen, Paula Alexiou, Manuel Bollmann, Julia Brekl, Emilie Köhler, Léa Lacan, Hauke-Peter Vehrs and Michael Bollig from our sub-project A04

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Wisse van Engelen @wissevanengelen.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

New paper! In this essay, we propose to complement rewilding’s famous 3 C’s with 3 B’s in order to draw attention to the social dimensions of rewilding (particularly in the rewilding landscapes of Southern Africa)

A graphical representation of the paper’s argument. On the left side it shows a silhouette of a lion (top), a green circle depicting a core area (middle), and three cores connected by green lines representing corridors (bottom). The right shows a silhouette of a cow alongside the lion’s silhouette (top), a core as on the left but with a light green area around it, representing a buffer area (middle), and a protected area network with corridors as on the left, but with black lines representing barriers (bottom). The left and right side are connected by three arrows pointing from the left to the right.

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Mridutpal Sinharay @mridutpalsinharay.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

🐗 New paper: What does "wildness" mean in a rewilded pygmy hog? After 12 months in Assam, I explore: rewilded hogs are liminal, meanings of wildness, taming as joint politics, contaminated freedom, animal cultures, and how conservation learns (or fails to). 🔗 Link below doi.org/10.1080/1388...

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Stakeholder Perspectives on Wildness in Pygmy Hog Reintroduction

The pygmy hog (Porcula salvania), the world’s smallest and one of the rarest wild pigs, is the focus of a reintroduction effort in Northeast India, where a captive-breeding programme launched in 19...

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Humanimalia @humanimalia.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

OUT NOW: Humanimalia 16.1 (2025), special issue on “Elephant (Research) Routes”, guest edited by Violette Pouillard and Marianna Szczygielska. 🐘🐘🐘 With essays on Babar, Avi, Ziggy, Arikomban, Kalloor Komban, Soorya, and Hansken, any many more! Read it for free here: humanimalia.org/issue/view/1...

The cover of the issue, showing Rembrandt's sketch of Hansken, 1637.

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Wisse van Engelen @wissevanengelen.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

First article from my PhD is out! ‘Provincialising Foot-and-Mouth Disease: The Construction of the African Buffalo as Disease Reservoir in Botswana, 1961–1976’, with Andreas Weber and @estherturnhout.bsky.social

Cover of the article with title of the article ‘Provincializing foot-and-mouth disease: the construction of the african buffalo as disease reservoir in Botswana, 1961-1976’ shown above a monochrome picture of a herd of buffaloes

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