REWILDING IS
ALREADY WORKING BOTH AMBITIOUS & REALISTIC PRACTICAL HOPE ANCHORED IN SCIENCE MOBILISING THE POWER OF NATURE
We’re Turning the Tide for Nature, Climate & People.Restoring Functional Nature for All.
NATURE’S HEALING POWER UNLEASHED:
SECURING A STABLE & HOPEFUL FUTURE
The Global Rewilding Alliance is a worldwide organisation working with rewilders on every continent to help nature heal itself and secure a thriving future for people, nature and planet.
By initiating the comeback of numerous wildlife species and working hand-in-hand with indigenous and local communities, rewilding is restoring healthy ecosystems. These functional ecosystems capture vast amounts of carbon, provide fresh air and clean water, and stabilise extreme weather - they are vital to our prosperity, survival, and security.
Rewilding provides practical hope based on real, positive action.
Nature possesses the incredible ability to rebound, but it does need our help! Organisations, environmental scientists, policymakers, businesses and citizens, this is our call to unite to create a rich, diverse, resilient world.
WHAT'S NEW?
Recent highlights from the world of Global Rewilding...
The official handover of ‘Taking Animals Into Account’ to the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands
On 4th March 2025, the team of the Global Rewilding Alliance met with the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands Secretariat for an official handover of the recently published report ‘Taking Animals Into Account’, a report on wetlands and wild animals. From the discussions it became clear that the rewilding perspective is of high relevance for meeting the objectives of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands.
Photo credit: Ramsar Convention on Wetlands
Fundación Montescola: Wild Horses in Spain are Firefighters
The Global Rewilding Alliance continues to grow. This week, we warmly welcome Fundación Montescola who are restoring communal land and preventing wildfire by partnering with the local Galician Wild Horses. They restore mixed deciduous forests, rewet peatlands, and spearhead a model for community-led rewilding.
Photo credit: Fundación Montescola.
World's first attempt to summarise the collective impact of the global rewilding movement
This visually stunning, highly accessible 50-page report integrates many great stories, ideas and resources from across the movement. It is intended as a resource for the whole rewilding movement.
With this hugely rewarding read, we are showing that rewilding truly is a global movement now and that rewilders are organised, innovative, evidence-based, persistent, and pragmatic people - they are putting Hope Into Action.
We warmly invite you to give yourself time to read the many inspiring stories that we share here - you will be richly rewarded.
THE GLOBAL REWILDING ALLIANCE, AS SEEN IN...
Our research is taking the world by storm, making it clear that we can stabilise the climate and create positive change in which both people and nature thrive. Rewilding is the powerful, proactive, and inspiring solution we all need.
This may be the most important scientific study I’ve ever read
Glenn Horowitz - Mighty Earth
Rewilding Superpowers
Capturing carbon & mitigating climate change in an effective & cheap way
Rebuilding natural resilience against floods, droughts, wildfires & alien species
Reducing the risks of pandemics like COVID-19
Enhancing ecosystem services for clean water, fresh air, and thriving landscapes
Are You Ready to Rewild?
Listen to Malaika Vaz of Untamed Planet talk about the growing global rewilding movement in this short inspirational video
WE ARE THE GLOBAL REWILDING ALLIANCE
Together, since 2021, our alliance partners are influencing the rewilding of approaching
2.2 million square kilometers of land (that's almost half the size of the USA) and 5 million square kilometers of sea.
(Figures updated March 2025)
Alliance Partners
Countries involved
Sq.km of land
Sq.km of sea
GLOBAL REWILDING ALLIANCE PARTNERS
Terrestrial and Marine
43
Partners
in North America
56
Partners
in Europe
30
Partners
in Asia
33
Partners in
Central & South America
41
Partners
in Africa
4
Partners
in the
Middle East
13
Partners
in Oceana
+24
Global / Multi-Continent Partners
REWILDING
is about restoring the web of life from cities to the wildest places on the planet, by taking the long-term view, and embracing natural solutions to environmental, social and economic challenges
How to be a rewilder
We all have a part to play, here’s what you can do:
- I’m a rewilding organisation
Become an Alliance Partner and learn from our global network of rewilders. More... - I’m a scientist
Be a part of a growing movement of scientists influencing the state of the Earth. More... - I’m a policymaker
Discover how rewilding is a key solution to climate change and reducing biodiversity loss. More... - I’m a business
Learn how your business can be a part of the solution and help rewild the world. More... - I’m a citizen
Be a supporter of the rewilding movement wherever you are in the world. More...
PROTECT.RESTORE.REWILD.
WE HAVE 2 GOALS
Mainstreaming rewilding
We are dedicated to translating science into policy and best practice globally. Our goal is for everyone, everywhere, to recognize rewilding as a beautiful, inspiring, hopeful, and most importantly proactive proven solution.
We are building a global movement
Restoring nature’s balance is only possible when supported by people. The Global Rewilding Alliance is a driving force, mobilizing the wordwide rewilding community and uniting people to restore Earth's wild spaces, stabilise the climate, combat mass extinctions, and mitigate the risk of future pandemics.
AND 4 WAYS TO MAKE THEM HAPPEN
1
We Gather Evidence
Safeguarding biodiversity is an essential act to sustain life as we know it. We advance the rewilding movement with world-class science, evidence, and ideas proving that rewilding needs to be at the centre of environmental policy and action.
2
We Advocate For Change
Based on our strong scientific evidence and increased public support, we influence policy and call for the restoration of wildlife populations to be included as a key nature-based solution.
4
We Inspire Communities
We raise awareness on rewilding and share practical hope for everyone. We invite people everywhere to understand rewilding and to participate in this inspiring movement.
3
We Accelerate Rewilders’ Journeys
We build partnerships with organisations and local communities to create the movement for rewilding and ecological restoration. We support our Alliance Partners by helping them connect to one another, learn from each other and work together towards shared goals.
Which feeds back into the first stage, gathering evidence to advance the rewilding movement. And so the cycle continues.
Restoring wildlife and whole ecosystems to reinstate the life-supporting functions of nature. This has the potential to draw down vast amounts of carbon, stabilise the climate and create the better future we all dream of.
WILD NEWS - Latest from the Global Rewilding Alliance blog
Thousand Year Trust: A Legacy That Will Grow Beyond Us All
The Global Rewilding Alliance has grown to a strong network of over 250 organisations that are restoring nature around the world. This week, we warmly welcome Thousand Year Trust who restoring and expanding the network of the often-overlooked UK temperate rainforests. Showing the world how they are unsung superheroes in improving climate, biodiversity and human health.
Photo credit: Thousand Year Trust
Tigers and Climate: First-of-its-kind research in Asia finds a dual win for nature and climate policy
New research published in Global Change Biology (Roberts et al., 2025) reveals that forests with healthy populations of wild Tigers store more carbon than ‘empty forests’ without Tigers — advancing the goals of both the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). This provides additional compelling evidence that wildlife recovery is a critical, yet often overlooked, tool in climate mitigation.
Photo credit: Girishacf from Getty Images
Olson Bison Rewilding Project: Why the Olson Family’s Work Matters for Rewilding
Step into the vast plans of Manitoba and Alberta, as we warmly welcome the Olson Bison Rewilding Project to our Alliance! With over 5,000 Bison roaming freely across areas in Alberta and Manitoba, the Olson family have quietly grown this passionate project into one of the most significant family-led rewilding efforts in North America.
Photo credit: Tom Olson.
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