I actually think that terminology is important. In the UK almost every acre of our land, including much of what we consider 'wilderness' is the result of human interference and management and has been so for thousands of years.
As we now know modern farming methods, not just in the UK, but worldwide, have been major contributors to the problem of global warming and this can only be remedied by major changes in agricultural land management so that our land is farmed to protect our environment and ourselves.
Rewilding and its suggestion that all will be well if we put little pockets of land aside and let it return to nature, will sort everything out is misguided and dangerous.
Government grants that encourage farmers to just put a hedgerow in here and an acre of woodland and a pond on their poorest land and call it 'rewilding', while continuing to use industrial farming methods on the rest of the farm will do little or nothing to make any serious inroads into the damage we have done to our planet and its ecosystems.
My tiny patch of land left to its own devices and called 'rewilding' is very nice, ticks all the environemental boxes, but does b****r all to actually do anything useful, to address the problem of the eco imbalance.
Over 25% of the public now accept re-wilding as a positive common sense and normalised. All this actually means is that they like the idea of 'No Mow May', wildflower meadows, and neglecting corners of their gardens.
They can feel happy and most farmers can hide behind specimen 'rewilding projects' while continuing to grow rape, maize and soya to stuff down cows, which gives them permanent diarrhea but makes them grow fast or growing crops unsustainably with chemical inputs that kill off plants and insects.
What is needed now is not rewilding but proper land management for sustainability and natural diversity and until we are honest about that and use a proper term for it like 'Regenerative Farming, nothing is going to happen to properly address the issue. 'Rewilding', is a nice bit of terminology that sounds nice but is actually used to pull woolover people's eyes to think the enviroment is being changed whaen actually it isn't.