Rewilding

We can transform the British landscape, and the longevity of our economy, if we let nature take the driving seat.

Rewilding Britain supports a doubling of the country’s woodland cover over the next decade, from 13 percent now to at least 26 percent.

Rewilding Britain is launching a network of landowners, farmers, community groups and local authorities to rewild land.

🌳 Exploring the connections between zoonotic diseases, human health and well-being, ecosystem degradation and biodiversity loss.

The Wild Ken Hill project on the Norfolk coast is turning around 1,000 acres of marginal farmland and woodland back over to nature.

Two pairs of beavers put into enclosures on Holnicote Estate in Exmoor, Somerset, as part of the "Riverlands" project to restore the river catchment.

Trees for Life is to establish the world’s first rewilding centre near Loch Ness in the Highlands.

The Finnish community of Selkie is leading the rewilding of rivers, lakes and carbon-rich peatlands damaged by mining.

The NFU’s goal for farming to reach net zero emissions should be welcomed - but their plan to achieve this is worrying and ignores the elephant in the room.

Plan to restore and rewild 25 percent of the UK to combat climate crisis put forward by progressive think tank Common Wealth.

Timber Festival panellists discuss the key practices, problems and possibilities associated with 'rewilding'.

Rewilding conference signals fresh thinking for Scotland’s land and seas.

Trees for Life are restoring the globally important Caledonian Forest and its precious wildlife, in partnership with Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival.

Organisation behind ideas to restore the UK’s nature on a massive scale hail surprise success of online campaign.

Trees for Life launches unique rewilding training scheme in the Highlands.

The British Ecological Society has published a new book on rewilding.

Our current, dominant forms of conservation are not equal to the task of responding to these new realities; we need urgent reforms.

KARA MOSES experienced the wild in Bialowieza, Europe's last primeval forest. Now she wants to share it. She is hosting a wild nature immersion retreat at Bwlch Corog this month

Proponents and opponents of the controversial concept met in London to persuade a live audience to support their stance, writes CATHERINE EARLY

Floods in continental Europe and a record-dry May in Finland’s forests are just two of many examples of climate change in action, says Rewilding Europe. But a new project to harness the carbon sequestration potential of boreal Finland hopes to bring about positive change at a time of intense climate crisis. CATHERINE HARTE reports

The United Kingdom's 46 Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONBs) cover almost one fifth of the country. ELIZABETH WAINWRIGHT explores why they're so much more than just pretty places to visit

Everyone is talking about rewilding at the moment. The debate around it is shaking up the conservation sector and public interest in it is huge, with a growing movement of people advocating the restoration of our degraded ecosystems. But what does it really mean to rewild? And how would you go about doing it if you actually have some land?

If we are to survive long into this century and beyond, our society will have to learn to re-indigenize (or rewild) itself - both its people and its environment, writes WILLIAM HAWES