ABSTRACT
This chapter explores ‘rewilding’ in the Avalon Marshes. Rewilding in the Avalon Marshes is a carefully negotiated process between ecological restoration, agriculture and peat extraction. The process involves the people who live and work in the Avalon Marshes; the other-than-human animals involved (either as deployed by humans or as engaging through ‘auto-rewilding’), the peat soil, and the waters of the Marshes. Ecological restoration is certainly taking place but human interventions endure, both in the cultural legacy of the Marshes and in ongoing management, whether it be to control water levels or deploying cattle to graze certain parts of the Marshes in order to retain certain ecological features.
