Rik Jansen

Rik Jansen

Grassroots campaigner

Rik joined Animal Rising in 2021 and has been involved in major campaigns such as dairy industry blockades and animal rescues and many investigations. Working in various roles as creative lead and mobilisations lead. Keen to develop a vision for animal freedom, over the past year he has been focused on exploring the connection between rewilding and animal liberation.

 

Saturday
5pm

Rewilding and Restoring Natural Habitats

 

Rewilding is a popular solution to the climate and biodiversity crisis. It provides hope for decarbonisation, while also returning land back to animals. Equally, rewilding needs vast amounts of land and is critically bound up with the need to transition to a plant-based food system.

Why then are vegan activists and organisations avoiding the rewilding message? And can we hope to achieve animal freedom without first restoring ecosystems?

In this discussion, we will delve into the root of Britain’s nature crisis and tackle difficult questions on nature’s complexity and wild animal suffering. Only together, through this nuance, can we begin to develop a vision for a new world, a world of animal freedom.

 

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