Restoration ecology has gained momentum in the international conservation scene. The United Nations declared 2021-2030 the decade on Ecosystem Restoration less than a year after the release of an IPBES thematic assessment dedicated to Land Degradation and Restoration. This brings opportunities to consider bolder but also more flexible approaches, including the rewilding of complex ecosystems, which has been both criticized and advocated in recent years. Laetitia Navarro will present a framework for rewilding that considers three interacting ecosystem processes as its core components: trophic complexity, dispersal, and stochastic disturbances. She will also discuss how such approach would not only contribute to the restoration of ecosystems and the biodiversity that they sustain, but also to restore some of the lost connections between society and nature, including by supporting several of Nature’s Contributions to People.