Preserving the Wild Spirit of New Jersey.

Rewild New Jersey Community Cooperative (RNJCC) is a nonprofit organization building a grassroots movement for state-wide community rewilding.

In a highly transitional, technological, globalized modern world, we can achieve sovereignty by rewilding our land & ourselves.

RNJCC offers storytelling, resources, & opportunities that support citizens & organizations working to preserve the wild spirit of New Jersey.

Conservation Rewilding

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Human Rewilding

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Community Rewilding

What is Conservation Rewilding?

Conservation Rewilding is an approach that prioritizes nature-first, nature-led ecological restoration strategies. Conservation Rewilding drives balance by maximizing the functionality of ecosystems through restoration practices that focus on coexistence, ecological relationships, habitat connectivity, and the overall enhancement of biodiversity. While historically associated with megafauna reintroduction, wilderness conservation, and the Three Cs Model (Cores, Corridors, and Carnivores), Conservation Rewilding in practice is now seen as any benefit to nature regardless of scale. Learn more about Conservation Rewilding here.

What is Human Rewilding?

Human Rewilding is an approach that reconnects people to the knowledge provided by the innate wildness of our primitive human origins. Human Rewilding is defined by the practice of reskilling which promotes wellbeing, resilience, and self-sufficiency in the post-industrial modern world. Reskilling activities include foraging, herbalism, homesteading, hunting, fishing, ancestral knowledge, weaving, permaculture, holistic wellness, composting, beekeeping, textile making, astronomy, wilderness survival, primitive lifeways, orienteering, bushcraft, and more. Human Rewilding is a rediscovery of self, nature connectedness, and the human spirit. Learn more about Human Rewilding here.

What is Community Rewilding?

Community Rewilding is an approach that re-establishes the connection between local environments and the people who live there. Community Rewilding shifts power back to local people who steward local environments and maximize local resources with the application of scalable rewilding efforts in community centers such as homes, schools, workplaces, churches, parks, community gardens, civic centers, and more. Community Rewilding is a form of resistance that counterbalances modern challenges by helping us to achieve sovereignty. Learn more about Community Rewilding here.

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About the Founder

Francesca Mundrick

Francesca Mundrick is from the State of New Jersey where she is an academic and rising leader in the environmental community. Francesca is an alumna of the Rowan University Department of Geography, Planning, & Sustainability where she now teaches as a 3/4 Time Professor of Geography. Francesca graduated with a Master of Environmental Studies from the University of Pennsylvania in 2019 and is now pursuing a PhD of Sustainability Education in a hybrid program with Prescott College in Arizona. She is the Founder of Rewilding4Republicans and NJ Republicans for Environmentalism, platforms that challenge political and social stereotypes about the environment. Entering the environmental advocacy community on the State and National level, Francesca serves on the Board of Trustees for the Association of New Jersey Environmental Commissions (ANJEC), and as the New Jersey Ambassador for the American Conservation Coalition (ACC).

To learn more about Fran, visit About the Founder & The Origin Story.

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Rewild New Jersey Community Cooperative (RNJCC) is completely volunteer based and self-funded. Please contribute funds to support our launch, development, and overhead costs!

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Take a moment to reflect on the original people of New Jersey. The land of New Jersey makes up the territories of the Lenape Tribal Nation called Lenapehoking. Lenapehoking includes the Ramapough Lenape Nation, Powhatan Renape Nation, and the Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Tribal Nation. The Lenni-Lenape are the ancestral stewards of New Jersey. It is important to recognize that their legacy lives on today in modern Lenape peoples. The original European Settlers of New Jersey, including the Dutch, Swedish, Finnish, and English peoples, worked hard and overcame major challenges to establish many of the original communities and cultural aspects still present in New Jersey today. New Jersey was and still is an epicenter of American society. Modern New Jersey is deserving all of its history from the many generations of Indigenous Peoples to more recent American history.

This website was not created by ChatGPT or any other AI related assistance. This website, as well as the RNJCC vision, was developed by Francesca Mundrick with the encouragement and support from a diversity of dedicated people. Technology is our tool, not a replacement for human ingenuity.

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