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Reflections on World Rewilding Day

Reflections on World Rewilding Day

On Wednesday 20th March 2024, we celebrated the 4th edition of World Rewilding Day (WRD). This has been a focal point for much of our work at the GRA over the last few months and reflects the growth and transformation the global rewilding movement has undergone over the last year.

This year, the day exceeded our expectations in terms of magnitude, reach and sophistication, demonstrating the hard work that Alliance Partners all around the world have been putting in, and the hope that they have transformed into action.

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2024 World Rewilding Day Theme Announced: Hope Into Action

2024 World Rewilding Day Theme Announced: Hope Into Action

Rewilding is a global movement, happening in diverse landscapes in every corner of the world. As we gear up for the 4th World Rewilding Day on March 20, 2024, the Global Rewilding Alliance is excited to reveal this year’s theme:

Hope Into Action

Photo credit: WWF-Australia & Tasmanian Land Conservancy

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Global Rewilding News EPISODE 3

Global Rewilding News EPISODE 3

Photo Credit: Prashanta Sarkar

In EP3, we give you the recent rewilding success stories and hopeful news – from a COP28 round-up, the successful mangrove restoration in the world’s largest delta, all the way to the howl of wolves returning to the Rocky Mountains. This episode welcomes whales, wolves, wolverines, parakeets and many more.

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The Community that Coexists with Elephants

The Community that Coexists with Elephants

Partner Organisation: Save the Elephants
Location: Kenya, Africa

Surrounding the freshwater Lake Jipe in Kenya, that teems with wildlife of all kinds, the local elephants graze the reeds alongside the local village fishermen, having made their daily walk directly through the village to get there. Elephants and humans coexist peacefully here.

As our Alliance Partner, Save the Elephants, was conducting their insightful research on elephant behaviour, they uncovered this unique coexistence between humans and elephants. Their work is essential to understanding the core of rewilding: the involvement of local communities.

As socioeconomic pressures rise, the importance of nurturing this positive mutual coexistence is key to effective conservation and rewilding efforts. The story holds insights for projects that are restoring wildlife around the world.

Photo credit: Anthony Ochieng

Partner Organisation: Save the Elephants
Location: Kenya, Africa
On the edge of Kenya’s vast Tsavo West National Park lies Lake Jipe – one of the country’s most important wetlands and home to fish, hippos, crocodiles and unique birdlife. Migratory and water birds frequent its reedy shores; these include storks, egrets, pelicans, spur-winged plovers and many more. Jipe forms a biodiversity rich ecosystem.

Photo credit: Anthony Ochieng

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Rewilding Makes Good Headway at COP 28

Rewilding Makes Good Headway at COP 28

Recap of COP 28 Achievements: Partnering with Nature for Climate Solutions We are pleased to say that at COP28, the rewilding message really achieved traction: We must partner with nature. Animals are the unsung heroes of the carbon cycle, animating the carbon cycle one paw, wing, and fin at a time! The Global Rewilding Alliance collaborated on 5...

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Global Rewilding News EPISODE 2

Global Rewilding News EPISODE 2

Photo Credit: Alamy

In Episode 2, we give you the recent rewilding success stories and hopeful news – from a town made for polar bears to lion cubs released back to the wild. Success stories from our Alliance Partner organisations, news stories from every continent and suggestions for positive things that you could do. Get involved! Feel free to send us your stories. Let’s spread positive news, inspiration and hope!

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Making Rewilding Mainstream

Making Rewilding Mainstream

At the Global Rewilding Alliance, our commitment goes beyond restoring ecosystems; we're dedicated to mainstreaming rewilding itself in practice, policy and science. Our goal is to bridge the gap between groundbreaking scientific discoveries and real-world impact, shaping policies and best practices that pave the way for a wilder, healthier, and...

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Rewild Your Life: Everyone Can Do It, Here’s Where To Start!

Rewild Your Life: Everyone Can Do It, Here’s Where To Start!

In our busy modern lives, it’s easy to feel disconnected from nature, from ourselves, and those around us. The persistent call to rewild and return to a more authentic way of living is loud and clear. And while some of us have thought at some point in life about abandoning it all to live with goats on a remote mountainside, the reality often...

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Global Rewilding News EPISODE 1

Global Rewilding News EPISODE 1

Photo Credit: Gregoire Duboisin

In this video, we give you the recent rewilding success stories and hopeful news. Success stories from our member organisations, news stories from every continent and suggestions for positive things that you could do. Get involved! Feel free to send us your stories. Let’s spread positive news, inspiration and hope!

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Global Rewilding News

Global Rewilding News

Subscribe to Global Rewilding News on YouTube for recent rewilding success stories and hopeful news. Highlighting projects from our alliance partners, news stories from every continent and suggestions for positive things that you could do.

Global Rewilding News is the first REWILDING NEWS service that we know of.

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Ruta Monarca Rewilding (Spanish)

Aquí Ximena nos inspira con el increíble trabajo que está haciendo Ruta Monarca a lo largo de la ruta de la mariposa Monarca, ayudando a su migración e involucrando a muchas comunidades en el proceso.

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Ruta Monarca Rewilding (English)

Here Ximena inspires us with the incredible work Ruta Monarca are doing along the route of the Monarch butterfly, assisting its migration and involving many communities in the process.

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Felinos do Aguia

In this beautiful film, Micheli from Felinos do Aguia shares her message of hope from Brasil where they are reintroducing various species of wild cats to areas where they once lived – rewilding hope.

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Pati Luiz Corzo

In this beautiful film, Pati Luiz Corzo, founder of Grupo Ecologico Sierra Gorda in Mexico, says “we are raising a wave of love for the planet”, tells us of the hope that this is bringing to thousands of local people, and even sings for us!

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Frans Schepers of Rewilding Europe

Here Frans Schepers of Rewilding Europe speaks to us from one of the largest rewilded areas in Netherlands, a beautiful floodplain where nature is bouncing back, bringing beauty, inspiration and hope to all who live and work nearby – and many visitors, generating jobs and revenue.

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Rewilding Ukraine

Here Mykhailo Nesterenko from Rewilding Ukraine gives us all a message of hope – of how rewilding in Ukraine is bringing new jobs and a vision for the country after war where “The locals communities say we shouldn’t stop, we should continue because this gives them the chance to survive”.

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Salamanda

This beautiful short from Mexico talks about the return of the Salamander, a shy, harmless reptile that is finding a new home as local people restore local forests.

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Rob and Fran from WWF Australia

Rob and Fran from WWF Australia talk about their inspiring project to bring back the Platypus to Australia’s first National Park, in this symbol of hope. This iconic mammal that looks like half Duck and half Otter, the Platypus has only disappeared here in recent years, so it’s great to have it back again

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John Davis, Director of The Rewilding Institute

John Davis, Director of The Rewilding Institute talks about their inspiring vision of hope, bringing back iconic species to the Adirondack mountains, re-connecting wild areas: “We are already halfway to our goal, we have seen many species have already return, and we should see the return of Puma and Wolf during our lifetimes.

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American Prairie

Daniel Kinka, Senior Wildlife Restoration Manager at American Prairie, talks about the hope that they are seeing by restoring grasslands and bringing back iconic species such as Bison, Beaver and Black-tailed Prairie Dogs, allowing many other species to recover and also allowing the land to turn once again into a carbon sink.

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FFC GRA

Zuleika Kingdon, Films for Change and the Rwenzori Rainmakers talk about their inspiring rewilding project in Uganda, where bird numbers have gone up from 50 to 201 on their rewilded land and local people are benefiting from new jobs and tourism.

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Daren Howarth

CLevel Founder Daren Howarth talks about working with children on a range of rewilding project, how rewilding is aligned with our true nature – and how these bring hope.

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FFC Children

Children involved in the Rwenzori Rainmakers share their joyful nature and message of hope as the forest returns, making rain.

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Simone Boecker

Simone Boecker introduces her new book Rewilding – the first book on the subject in German, packed with stories of #RewildingHope.

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FFC- Isaac

Issac Okwir of the Rwenzori Rainmakers encourages us that ‘one tree at a time makes a big difference’ – birds and animals are returning, and this is bringing the community together.

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Andrew Parker

Andrew Parker of Conserve Global talks about hopeful projects in Namibia, Mozambique and South Africa where they help local people enhance their livelihoods through rewilding.

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The Rwenzori Founders

Emmanuelle, sculpture and a beautiful gecko: “Do something positive – it will have a rippling effect” says Emmanuelle. Community, rewilding, income. That’s hope.

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Help Rewilding In Ukraine

HELP REWILDING IN UKRAINE As war descends on Ukraine, it also sweeps across the wetlands of the Danube River Delta that Ukrainian conservationists have worked so hard to protect and rewild. Though many of us feel helpless in the face of the Russian onslaught, there is something you can do to help Ukrainian conservation. Over the past five years,...

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Animate the Carbon Cycle

The GRA is facilitating a high-level group of scientists, economists, and civil society organisations to launch an initiative that will demonstrate the direct impact of nature solutions on solving the climate emergency.

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Rewilding Argentina Registers Birth of Three Rare Maned Wolves

Rewilding Argentina Registers Birth of Three Rare Maned Wolves  RARE IMAGES OF MANED WOLVES REARING THEIR YOUNG IN ARGENTINA Rewilding Argentina, the strategic partner of Tompkins Conservation, has registered the birth of three pups of this rare species in Iberá Park, a protected wetland of 1.7 million acres in Northeast Argentina where many...

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Rewilding Chile Is Launched

Rewilding Chile Is Launched August 26, 2021—PUERTO VARAS, CHILE After leading conservation efforts in Chilean Patagonia for over 28 years, the nonprofit created by Kristine and Douglas Tompkins launches a new name to reflect the central role of large-scale ecological restoration in fighting the biodiversity crisis and providing natural climate...

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Introducing PeaceParksTV

The Peace Parks Foundation is rewilding Africa, reinventing our relationship with nature, and tells it’s story with the launch of PeaceParksTV.

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World Rewilding Day Impact Report 2021

The Global Rewilding Alliance launched the first annual World Rewilding Day on March 20, 2021 (the equinox) to expand enthusiasm for actions that help stabilise the climate emergency and simultaneously protect and restore the web of life. We call these sets of actions rewilding.

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1st World Rewilding Day on the 20th of March 2021 – the solar equinox

1st World Rewilding Day on the 20th of March 2021 – the solar equinox The UN DECADE on Ecosystem Restoration is the right global initiative at the right time, and urgently needed as we face the prospect of global ecological tipping points – or a Hothouse Earth - driven by our overexploitation of nature, the rapid acceleration of climate change...

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Rewilding Charter

Rewilding Charter BACKGROUND This Global Charter for Rewilding the Earth was developed by experts within the global conservation community preparing for the 11th World Wilderness Congress, including the Wilderness Specialist Group (IUCN) and others.

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Nature-Based Solutions

Nature-Based Solutions BACKGROUND To meet societal challenges, such as climate change, disaster risk reduction, economic and social development, human health and water security, and environmental degradation and biodiversity loss, the concept of nature-based solutions (NbS) has been launched. This policy briefing was produced by the WILD...

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Infectious Diseases Report

Infectious Diseases Report BACKGROUND The transformation of nature, and especially of primary ecosystems, has increased the exposure of humans to pathogens originating in wildlife. Together with the industrialization of food production both on land and in sea and the conversion of land for farming and extractive industries, conversion has...

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Rewilding Infographic

Rewilding Infographic Download and share the Global Rewilding Alliance infographic! (To download, right click the infographic and "Save Image As" a JPEG)

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