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...
De-extinction, indigenous-led rewilding and ocean restoration
Welcome to three incredible rewilding organisations that each have a global reach. One is providing hope by reversing extinction, another pioneers indigenous-led action, and another is bringing abundance back to our oceans. We introduce you to three rewilding organisations from our network so that you can hear about some of the exciting success stories, challenges and ambitious aims. We warmly welcome: The Colossal Foundation, Ofrenda A’bunna and Blue Marine Foundation.
Photo credit: Ami Vitale.
A Sustainable Future Builds on a Positive Narrative
Rewilding is one of a number of systemic approaches that will shape our future. We might work on a specific creek or forest, a specific ecosystem or landscape, but what we do is part of a much larger effort for reviving Earth, for a new economy, a new life-style and an appropriate set of values, that will enable us to live sustainably on a rich and diverse planet – a home, that truly is a home for us and future generations. We are an important player in a much bigger game and need to live up to our possibilities.
In this thought-piece, Managing Director Karl Wagner sets out the bigger picture of what we are doing in the rewilding movement and how it connects with contemporary events.
Photo credit: Michael Studinger from NASA CC0 Images.
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 our alliance partners are influencing the rewilding of approaching 2 million square kilometers of land and seas.
That’s the size of the UK, Italy, Switzerland and South Korea combined together!
Alliance Partners (and growing)
Countries involved
Million hectares
GLOBAL REWILDING ALLIANCE PARTNERS
Terrestrial and Marine
34
Partners
in North America
41
Partners
in Europe
27
Partners
in Asia
29
Partners in
Central & South America
26
Partners
in Africa
2
Partners
in the
Middle East
12
Partners
in Oceana
+23
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
Rewilding in the Wake of Civil War: Maputo National Park
Location: Mozambique, Africa
In the far south of Mozambique, on sub-Saharan Africa’s east coast, lies a designated area known as Maputo National Park. Combining protected land with a marine reserve, and sitting within a landscape-scale transboundary conservation project, it exemplifies the holistic approach that is needed to address the global biodiversity crisis. It has also been the site, during the past couple of decades, for one of the more remarkable cases of nature’s revival – a story of healing in the wake of war.
Photo credit: Peace Parks Foundation
Community-led rewilding in India, Belize and the Democratic Republic of Congo
Rewilding is happening now all over the world. This week we are delving into three countries from three different continents: India, Belize and the Democratic Republic of Congo, with organisations that are rewilding tropical forests, endangered manatees and many more iconic species. We warmly welcome three new Alliance Partners: Nirman Odisha, Wildtracks and MKAAJI MPYA asbl.
Photo credit: tobiasfrei from Getty Images Pro
Rewilding helps to combat desertification
Through reinstalling natural processes, such on water, rewilding helps to reduce the risks of desertification.
How can rewilding help reduce desertification and its effects? This was the question set by the UN University in Bonn, Germany, in its assessment of seven ‘new’ land and water management approaches, of which rewilding was one. That the Global Rewilding Alliance took part in the process is a clear indication that rewilding as a relatively new perspective for the future management of land and water is receiving increasing attention outside the narrower conservation and wildlife community. This is indeed encouraging, and serves as an example of how the GRA is working towards fulfilling its mission: to mainstream rewilding in science, policy, and practice by 2030.
Photo credit: Peace Parks Foundation
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