In the U.S. at least, golf courses aren't really taking away land that could be used for wild habitat. There's massive amounts of wilderness to use. It's like

In the U.S. at least, golf courses aren't really taking away land that could be used for wild habitat. There's massive amounts of wilderness to use. It's like complaining about trophy hunting through state programs in Africa because of endangered species. It sounds good and gives warm fuzzies to stand in support of helping animals, but the facts are that it ranges from counter productive to outright harmful to the cause of helping endangered species to oppose those trophy hunting programs. For golf courses, I doubt re-wilding is a good use of that space. It's often limited and surrounded my urban areas. Even where it's not, you're still probably better off taking large unused reacts of land and making them parks than you are repurposing a golf course.