Former New South Wales premier Bob Carr has taken up the battle to rewild Moore Park Golf Course.

He’s brought it to the attention of the new premier Chris Minns and to ministers in the state government.

The popular movement to rewild our natural world has now attracted an academic study, that describes it as the aim to “restore healthy ecosystems by creating wild, biodiverse spaces”.

There’s a common misconception that it’s about doing nothing, ‘letting nature take over’. “ “And they desperately want their kids to have some open space.”

Apartments are very small, he says, and the argument is based on stimulating better physical and mental health for a big population living in small units in tower blocks.