Challenging our conception of wildness

Abstract

Baker & Winkler (2020) point out the entanglement among free-living elephants, captive elephants, and humans in the elephant tourism industry. Where all living beings - captive and free-living - are more or less affected by human presence or activity, the binary notion of wild and captive, and in situ and ex situ conservation, becomes inadequate. B&W challenge our concept of wildness - and hence of rewilding - and our level of intervention in this wildness of which we are a component.