The ecological equivalent of saying "my bad" and hitting the ultimate undo button. It’s not just conservation, but actively restoring ecosystems to their wild, self-regulating state, often by reintroducing keystone species like wolves, beavers, or bison that engineers the landscape back to health. The goal is to create connected, thriving wild spaces where nature calls the shots, from the soil microbes up to the apex predators. It’s a rejection of tidy, managed landscapes in favor of complex, messy, and resilient wilderness.