Rewild the World

Rewild The World puts visitors behind the eyes of a tiger, gorilla, polar bear, and sea turtle. Simple hand gestures help repair each habitat while the scenes connect biodiversity loss to human pressure.

What is Rewild the World?

This compact conservation experiment trades the usual wildlife slideshow for four borrowed points of view. A tiger, gorilla, polar bear, and sea turtle each lead into a habitat shaped by a different pressure. Independent coverage connects the land animals with deforestation, the turtle with ocean pollution, and the polar bear with climate change. Google MediaPipe turns hand movement into the control scheme, so restoring parts of each environment becomes a physical action rather than another next button. The metaphor is intentionally simple, but it makes the central idea legible: when a habitat changes, the animal's whole world changes with it.

What you can do there

• See habitats from four animals' perspectives
• Use hand gestures to restore damaged environments
• Explore biodiversity and human environmental impact

Why we picked it

The animal-eye framing makes environmental damage immediate without demanding a long lesson first. Gesture control also gives the restoration theme a satisfying bit of cause and effect: move your hands, and the habitat answers.

How to get the most from it

Choose an animal and follow the on-screen restoration prompts with the requested hand gestures. Give each habitat a moment after the task; the useful part is noticing what returns when the damaged pieces are repaired.

Good to know

The official page says the controls use MediaPipe hand gestures. Camera permission, non-camera fallbacks, accessibility support, audio behavior, and live-video handling were not documented on the surrounding page.

Who made it, and when?

WWF with Google Arts & Culture Lab artists Simon Doury and Esther Goh is the credited creator or organization. The earliest supported launch date we found is February 29, 2024.