A region demarcated by the nature of the natural environment, not by man-made divisions. In ecology, a bioregion is an area that constitutes a natural ecological community (C. Morris, ed. 1992). However, the fact remains that the contours of bioregions are drawn largely by humans; see Meredith (2005) Ethics, Place & Environ. 8, 1, 83. Bioregionalists argue that ‘modern industrial societies have obscured or lost contact with the extent to which they are reliant on and embedded in ecosystems’ and that we should live ‘as close to nature as possible…letting the rhythms of the land, its soils, winds, patterns, and limits enter into human social life’ (J. Barry and E. G. Frankland 2014).