Rewilding Europe

Abstract

ONCE UPON A TIME there was a sweet young girl. Everyone who knew her liked her, but none more so than her grandmother, who had given her a little cap made of red velvet. Because it suited her so well, the little girl wore it all the time and soon came to be known as Little Red Riding Hood. One day her mother said to her: “Come Little Red Riding Hood. Here is a piece of cake and a bottle of wine. Take them to your grandmother. Behave yourself on the way, and do not leave the path.” But upon entering the woods, Little Red Riding Hood came across a wolf, and as the tale tells us, “She did not know what a wicked animal he was.