This essay aims to raise the question of participation of nonhumans in decision-making processes that are part of the development of plans, designs, or future projections on a land - being it in an urban, rural, or hybrid state -, that will inevitably affect the presence and life of more than just human beings.
The aim is to start a conversation on the development of tools and skills in participation processes that include other-than-human in decision making. Thus, experimentally applying a Participation Ladder to the processes of Rewilding, involving nonhumans, with a particular eye to Summit to Sea, a project of collaborative land management for the restoration of biodiversity in the Cambrian Mountains of Wales (Summit to Sea online, 2020).
Rewilding is defined as a progressive approach to conservation, that aims to restore nature dynamics, such as dispersal, trophic complexity, and stochastic disturbances (Perino et al. 2019), to promote self-sustainability within ecosystems; on Rewilding Europe website “it’s about letting nature take care of itself ” (2020).
