CEO Note: What rewilding victory looks like

The CEO of Mighty Earth reports on rewilding successes, including the planned restoration of grizzly bears to Washington state and a feasibility study for their return to California. The note also celebrates the creation of the 729,000-acre Patagonia Azul Provincial Park in Argentina and calls for Indonesia to shift its 'food and energy estates' project from intact forests to degraded lands to protect biodiversity and climate goals.

• The U.S. National Park Service and U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service have announced plans to restore grizzly bears to the North Cascades of Washington state.
• A peer-reviewed feasibility study by the California Grizzly Alliance concluded that there are no insurmountable biological, ecological, economic, legal, or policy barriers to returning grizzly bears to California, where no wild grizzly has been seen since 1924.
• The Patagonia Azul Provincial Park in Argentina is a new 729,000-acre coastal-marine sanctuary protecting over 60 islands and islets, as well as habitats for more than 50 seabird species, kelp forests, and various marine mammals.
• Indonesia's state-backed 'food and energy estates' project involves developing seven million acres of habitat across Papua, Borneo, Sumatra, and Sulawesi, which the author argues undermines the country's climate and forest progress.
• There is emerging interest in Indonesia to redirect development from intact forests to the country's 30 million acres of degraded land.

APA

Hurowitz, G. (2025). CEO Note: What rewilding victory looks like. Mighty Earth. https://mightyearth.org/article/ceo-note-what-rewilding-victory-looks-like/

Chicago

Hurowitz, Glenn. CEO Note: What rewilding victory looks like. Mighty Earth, 2025. https://mightyearth.org/article/ceo-note-what-rewilding-victory-looks-like/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@misc{hurowitz2025ceo, author = {Hurowitz, Glenn}, title = {{CEO Note: What rewilding victory looks like}}, publisher = {Mighty Earth}, year = {2025}, month = may, url = {https://mightyearth.org/article/ceo-note-what-rewilding-victory-looks-like/}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }