The last forty years have seen a dramatic increase in the number of great cormorants (Phalacrocorax carbo) moving inland away from British coastlines. Britain's largest inland colony currently reside at Walthamstow Wetlands, a nature reserve and functional reservoir system in northeast London, recently branded ‘Europe's largest urban wetland'. Here, great cormorants are embroiled in contested ideas of nature. Celebrated by conservationists for their resilience and adaptability, yet hounded by anglers for launching ecological chaos on rivers and reservoirs and disrupting the balance that is imagined for urban recreational spaces. This paper argues for a more nuanced version of rewilding that acknowledges the biogeographical complexity and mobility of nonhumans in relation to radically altered ecologies and post-industrial urban environments. It uses the conceptual frame of more-than-human to examine the increased presence, mobility, and agency of great cormorants at Walthamstow Wetlands in terms of nonhuman autonomy and auto-rewilding. The findings demonstrate that the self-relocation and autonomous occupation of inland cormorants in Walthamstow are intimately entangled with human histories and activities, and that they are active alongside humans in creating novel ecosystems.

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后工业城市中的自然荒凉：以英国城市内陆Cor为例

在过去的40年中，从英国海岸线向内陆转移的great的数量急剧增加。英国最大的内陆殖民地目前位于沃尔瑟姆斯托湿地，这是伦敦东北部的自然保护区和功能性水库系统，最近被称为“欧洲最大的城市湿地”。在这里，大mor陷入了对自然的争辩。环保主义者因其韧性和适应性而受到赞扬，但钓鱼者对在河流和水库上造成的生态混乱以及破坏了城市休闲空间所想象的平衡感到困惑。本文主张进行更细致入微的翻新计划，该计划承认非人类在生态学和后工业化城市环境方面的生物地理复杂性和流动性。它使用非人类的概念框架来研究沃尔瑟姆斯托湿地的presence存在，活动性和功能增强，这是基于非人类的自主权和自我迷惑。研究结果表明，沃尔瑟姆斯托的内陆cor的自我迁移和自主占领与人类的历史和活动紧密地纠缠在一起，它们在创造新的生态系统方面与人类并存。和沃尔瑟姆斯托湿地的cor在非人类自治和自动野外方面的代理。研究结果表明，沃尔瑟姆斯托的内陆cor的自我迁移和自主占领与人类的历史和活动紧密地纠缠在一起，它们在创造新的生态系统方面与人类并存。和沃尔瑟姆斯托湿地的cor，它们具有非人类自治和自我迷惑的功能。研究结果表明，沃尔瑟姆斯托的内陆cor的自我迁移和自主占领与人类的历史和活动紧密地纠缠在一起，它们在创造新的生态系统方面与人类并存。