Pan-European rewilding initiative operating across 10+ landscapes, reintroducing wildlife, supporting nature-based economies, and running the European Rewilding Network connecting 100+ local initiatives.
A new documentary shows how rewilding in Ukraine's Danube Delta operates as both ecological restoration and social healing — restoring natural processes while offering veterans and communities a lived practice of renewal amid war.
The European Rewilding Network adds CALLISTO and Marine Rewilding Türkiye to its roster of over 100 initiatives — one focused on human-carnivore coexistence, the other on coastal ecosystem recovery. Both embed local communities in restoration governance.
A €40,000 loan from Rewilding Europe Capital enables a Portuguese nature tourism company to expand accommodation in the Greater Côa Valley — testing whether financial tools can align ecological restoration with economic viability in depopulating rural regions.
Ballintean Mountain Lodge, a 30-year rewilding experiment in the Cairngorms, joins the European Rewilding Network — a move that underscores how ecological restoration increasingly operates through distributed governance: peer learning, knowledge exchange, and practice-led networks rather than top-down mandates.
As the Rewilding Europe Award deadline approaches, photographer Jon A. Juárez reflects on what makes rewilding imagery matter: not just aesthetics, but the governance relationships between people, science, and returning ecosystems.
In Ukraine's Danube Delta, six years of restoration has reconnected 18,000 hectares of floodplain to the river — a reminder that ecological governance means reshaping flows, not just protecting boundaries, even under the strain of invasion.
As Europe's wildlife photography competition opens submissions, judge Viktoria Pezzei argues for images that show human hands in ecological work — not pristine wilderness, but the lived practice of restoration.
A new toolkit launched by Rewilding Europe offers municipal leaders practical frameworks for human-wildlife coexistence — recognizing local governance as the crucial layer where ecological recovery becomes lived experience.
A regional French programme letting forests and wetlands recover without human interference joins a network of 105 rewilding initiatives — advancing a governance model where ecosystems manage themselves.
Nine European bison have been released in Spain's Iberian Highlands as part of a cross-European study testing how keystone species can restore degraded landscapes — and whether rewilding can offer viable development pathways for depopulating rural communities.