Healing powers of nature?

(This is an old one but I don't think I'd seen it before.) How Monterey Bay Came Back From the Brink, which is very much about the small slow steps and the long-term effects of actions.: 'Here’s the story of how a few individuals confronted an environmental disaster and worked to transform it into an ecological treasure.':

The people most responsible for the renewal of Monterey Bay didn’t live to see what it would become. But they spent decades doing the hard work that future generations could build on.

The emerging mode of urban nature conservation: (Re)wilding London: Fabric, politics, and aesthetics:

(Anti-)urbanists have long been concerned that dense urban living in the absence of greenspace alienates people from nature (Gandy, 2022a). But for urban (re)wilders, in post-industrial, sanitary cities like London, urban population density instead offers significant potential for engaging publics and forging new environmental citizens. An urban nature reserve is much more accessible to urban residents than those located in the rural hinterlands, especially for those without access to transport or with little cultural affinity with the idea of the pastoral rural idyll. London rewilders (including the Mayor Sadiq Khan) present inner city rewilding interventions, like the introduction of beaver to an enclosure in Ealing in West London, as acts of ‘social justice’ because they bring the wild to politically and economically marginal urban publics. They flag how engaging local publics with the maintenance and repair required for urban rewilding offers ample opportunity for education and community participation (under different political models that we explore below).
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Work by rural geographers (Agyeman & Spooner, 1997; Tolia-Kelly, 2007) shows how the dominant aesthetics of a wild or pastoral British Nature may be perceived as exclusive, intimidating, and dangerous to minority populations. Cosmopolitan cities, like London, incorporate diverse cultures of nature that value encounters with different aspects of urban ecology, bringing the multiplicity of urban wilds to the fore. For example, Barua (2022) shows how feral rose-ringed parakeets (Psittacula krameria) in London are often derided by conservationists as invasive species. In contrast, some members of London's South Asian diaspora community welcome parakeets into a recombinant urban ecology because the sights and sounds of parakeets bring with them a sense of home (see also Uskakovych, 2024).

This seems to me to envisage a much more sensitive and nuanced approach to nature and rewilding than just guerilla-dumping feral pigs into the wilder parts of the British Isles:

Rangers corral feral pigs thought to have been released in Cairngorms:

“I am concerned that the Cairngorms is now seen as a dumping ground from any wild animal. These people are on a mission, but are acting with no consultation with the local people who have to live and work in that landscape and ignorance of the animals themselves.” Local farmers were particularly concerned about the potential for disease spread, given the unknown provenance of the animals, said MacDonald. He also said that feral pigs regularly damage fences, allowing sheep and cattle to escape, while their rooting behaviour destroys pasture, hay fields, and crops such as barley and oats, with newly planted fields being especially vulnerable.

See case of Eurasian lynx cited therein:

["T]his unfortunate development just serves to further demonstrate the folly of abandoning these amazing animals in the wild, with no preparation or real concern for their welfare. We can only imagine the stress that all four of the recovered lynx must have experienced after being thrust into an entirely new and extremely harsh environment to fend for themselves.”