Alliance Partner Stories

The People’s Park for Nature is a community-led rewilding initiative in East Sussex, UK, transforming spaces from tiny balconies to vast acreages into connected wildlife corridors. PPN supports over 33 landowners across 15,000 acres and 40 mini-parks, and community with a variety of hands-on rewilding experiences. PPN is successfully building a replicable model for climate resilience and community-driven nature recovery.

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Rewild Pangaea is developing a new model to turn extraction into renewal — transforming post-mining landscapes into biodiversity hotspots, carbon sinks, and foundations for new community-owned economic growth.

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In the Parc National de l’Entre-Sambre-et-Meuse, Belgium, forests are being left to evolve freely again, rivers are reclaiming their natural courses, and species long absent are finding their way back, with a 2041 target of fully restored landscapes.

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YIARI is a nonprofit organisation founded in 2008, operating across Indonesia in collaboration with the Ministry of Forestry (MoF). YIARI has rescued, rehabilitated, and released over 100 Orangutans into protected forest since 2016, while also restoring 260 hectares of degraded peatland habitat. YIARI runs Indonesia’s first Slow Loris rehabilitation centre and holds globally accredited sanctuary status for both their Slow Loris and Orangutan centres.

Wildlands Network works across Canada, the United States and Mexico to create corridors for wildlife. Their work spans three decades, three nations and a coalition of stakeholders, focused on reigniting traditional migration routes for wild animals. Building infrastructure reduces collisions and reduces repair costs. Creating critical gaps for wildlife passage in the US-Mexico border wall is key. By mapping exactly where animals still try to cross – and partnering with local communities to identify and protect key corridors – they push for legislative changes that have real impact.

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Greenhood Nepal is a science-driven conservation organisation that stands today as a formidable guardian of Nepal’s unique and rich biodiversity. From Pangolins to Orchids, Yew trees to Freshwater Turtles and Tortoises, their work prioritises lesser-known species in conservation research, policy, and action.

Tortoise. Credit: Greenhood Nepal

The Talarak Foundation in the Philippines is a leader in rewilding, notably through its management of the 300-hectare Bayawan Nature Reserve. The foundation’s captive breeding program has successfully reintroduced the “West Visayan Big 5″—including the Visayan Spotted Deer and Warty Pig—back into the wild, where populations are now thriving.

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The Scottish Rewilding Alliance is a coalition of organizations and individuals dedicated to restoring nature across Scotland. Founded in 2019, the group advocates for ambitious policy change, aiming to make Scotland the world’s first “Rewilding Nation”. By connecting people with nature and promoting large-scale restoration, the Alliance works to ensure wildlife and communities flourish together in a greener, fairer future.

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The International Tree Foundation restores degraded landscapes by working with local partners across East Africa, the UK and Ireland, and combining native tree planting, sustainable forestry and community-led stewardship.

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Chumbe Island Coral Park is Tanzania’s first Marine Protected Area became the world’s first financially self-sustaining MPA through ecotourism. Since it’s forming in 1994, biodiversity has bounced back, and all the revenue from the eco-lodges are reinvested into the local economy.

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The Blue Hope Alliance is a Scottish coalition of citizens, fishers, and scientists dedicated to restoring inshore seas. Originating from a 2014 campaign that successfully banned bottom trawling and dredging in the Wester Ross Marine Protected Area, the group now utilizes underwater surveys and citizen science to map and protect fragile, ancient Maerl habitats.

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Established in 2017, the Rapa Nui Marine Protected Area covers over 729,000 km² and is co-managed by the Rapa Nui community and the State of Chile, focusing on protecting marine ecosystems while honouring traditional fishing practices.

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Pró-Onça Instituto, in Brazil, protects and rewilds Jaguars, the web of life they influence and ecosystem-wide processes they drive. Their team is filled with women: scientists, field biologists, rangers, and community educators, all working together to create the conditions where humans and apex predators can thrive. 

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Mariners for Action is a community-driven organization working along Kenya’s coastline to restore ecosystems and support local livelihoods. Mariners for Action addresses critical issues like industrial bottom trawling, illegal mangrove logging, and plastic pollution. Their approach includes restoring mangrove forests to protect vital Sea Turtle nesting sites and coastal barriers, and launching plastic recycling initiatives that provide income for local women and youth.

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Wild Tomorrow is a South African conservation organization operating in KwaZulu-Natal, dedicated to protecting endangered species and restoring vital ecosystems. Co-founded by John Steward and Wendy Hapgood, the group focuses on the Greater Ukuwela Nature Reserve, where they are creating a critical wildlife corridor. They successfully combine large-scale rewilding with deep community investment, ensuring a thriving future for both wildlife and people.

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The Africa Nature Investors Foundation (ANI) protects and rewilds Nigeria’s Gashaka Gumti and Okomu National Parks. Through a Public-Private Partnership model, ANI co-manages these areas with the government, channeling private investment into ranger patrols and biodiversity management. ANI provides micro-finance, education, and sustainable livelihood to foster local ownership and resilience.

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The Centro Mexicano de Rehabilitación de Primates (CMRP) rescues, rehabilitates, and releases endangered primates, including Spider and Howler Monkeys, in Mexico. Facing threats from the illegal pet trade and habitat loss, CMRP guides primates through a rigorous five-to-seven-year recovery process before reintroducing them into the wild. Their efforts have seen successful releases and wild births, supported by deep community partnerships and educational outreach.

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The Wildlife Research and Conservation Society (WRCS) in India fosters human-wildlife harmony through community-based solutions. In areas of human-elephant conflict, they use low-cost methods like early alerts, chilli deterrents, and income-generating beehive fences. WRCS also conducts critical ecological research on the endangered Forest Owlet, and champion the reforestation of private Mālki forests in the Western Ghats.

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The Rewilders, a partner in India, are regenerating 1500 acres of fragmented, mined Aravalli landscapes into thriving ecosystems. Led by Vijay Dhasmana, their work at the 380-acre Aravali Biodiversity Park transformed a defunct mining site into India’s first OECM site and a vital water recharge zone now hosting over 200 bird species and wildlife like the Golden Jackal.

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The Sahyadri Sankalp Society is a non-profit operating in India’s Western Ghats, dedicated to integrating community prosperity with nature restoration in the UNESCO World Heritage Site. A central effort is the Hornbill Study and Conservation Project, which protects three Hornbill species through various actions. They also focus on safeguarding sacred groves, promote organic agriculture and strengthen food security through an Indigenous Seed Bank Project.

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The Freyja Foundation is a charitable organization focused on large-scale rewilding and community empowerment in Patagonia, Argentina, and Chile. In Argentina’s Patagonia Park, they have helped transform over 180,000 hectares of degraded ranchland, reintroduced 12 native species and removed fencing to restore Guanaco migration. In Chile’s Cochamó Valley, Freyja co-leads a multi-partner effort to protect nearly 133,000 hectares of primary forest and establish a 1.6 million-hectare binational wildlife corridor.

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Wildlife Preservation Canada is Canada’s leading organization dedicated to preventing species extinction. WPC utilizes a hands-on, science-led “Durrell approach,” combining fieldwork, conservation breeding, and reintroduction. They manage recovery programs for dozens of at-risk species. WPC also fosters future environmental stewards through “Canada’s New Noah” capacity-building program.

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The Manaaki Kaimai Mamaku Trust is a co-governed organization dedicated to restoring the life force of New Zealand’s 37,000-hectare Kaimai Mamaku park. Protecting the native forest’s unique flora and fauna from introduced predators and browsing animals, field teams blend traditional Māori knowledge with modern science. The Trust is also developing internationally accredited Nature Credits.

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The ORKCA in southern Namibia is undertaking one of Africa’s largest transboundary rewilding projects, aiming to restore a landscape that was fragmented by farming and fencing. The project aims to bring back the region’s ecological rhythms and great migrations, like the historic 20-million strong Springbok Trekbokken. Crucially, the initiative is co-created with local communities, who are centered in shared stewardship models and livelihood generation through sustainable tourism and regenerative farming. The goal is to rewild 1 million hectares.

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Few and Far Luvhondo is committed to protecting 20,000 ha of South African landscape, including a part of ‘Vhembe Biosphere Reserve’ . Through monitoring, tracking and ecosystem restoration, and the recreating of ecosystem processes and wildlife corridors, they offer unique opportunities for ecotourists. They also collaborate with Venda elders and locals, whilst running on 100% renewable energy, prioritizing zero waste, and sourcing food locally. 

Giraffes in the bushes / Few and Far Luvhondo

Preserving Land and Nature (PLANT) is a pioneering ecosystem restoration initiative in Sri Lanka, established in 2020 by the Wildlife and Nature Protection Society (WNPS). PLANT focuses on reconnecting fragmented forests in Sri Lanka’s endemic-rich southwestern Wet Zone by creating private, community-supported forest corridors. They have secured over 2,500 acres, built 50+ km of corridors, and protected habitat for more than 1,300 species.

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Broughton Sanctuary is transforming over 1,030 hectares of former intensive sheep pasture into a diverse, resilient landscape in the UK, restoring woodlands, meadows, wetlands and grasslands through native tree planting, natural regeneration and sensitive habitat management. They also have resident beavers! Alongside ecological recovery, Broughton Sanctuary connects people to nature through community events, wellbeing programs, volunteering and responsible tourism.

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The Scimitar-Horned Oryx, extinct in the wild since the late 1980s, began its historic return to Chad’s Sahel in March 2016. This success story, spearheaded by Sahara Conservation, the Government of Chad, and the Environment Agency of Abu Dhabi (EAD), saw the species downlisted from ‘Extinct in the Wild’ to ‘Endangered’ in 2023, with over 600 Oryx now roaming freely.

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Forêt & Naturalité is a Belgian nonprofit advancing forest rewilding and ecosystem resilience by promoting free evolution, natural processes, and forest protection. Active since 2015, their work champions deadwood, natural decay, and predator dynamics as drivers of biodiversity, while defending high-natural-value forests and integral reserves across Belgium.

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Forest First Samithi has spent the last 15 years healing the degraded habitats of India’s Western Ghats. The team’s work on uprooting invasive species from the Kabini river catchment had tremendous benefits: native grasslands have reestablished, Elephants and Gaur have returned, 184 bird species have been recorded, and soil moisture increased by 35%. At the heart of this success is a deep, reciprocal partnership with local indigenous tribal communities, creating a scalable blueprint for rewilding.

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Livingseas Foundation is a community-driven organisation based in Bali, Indonesia, focused on large-scale coral reef restoration and ocean education. The foundation has planted over 300,000 corals with a 98% early survival rate, leading to the return of diverse marine life including reef sharks, turtles, dolphins, and barracudas. Livingseas connects thousands of local youth, students, and visitors to hands-on reef restoration, demonstrating how community engagement, science, and persistence can drive rapid marine ecosystem recovery.

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Akae Conservancy is Colombia’s largest private protected area. Formerly cattle ranchland, Akae was transformed by a family-led decision to protect nature, highlighting the growing role of private and family stewardship in global rewilding efforts. The reserve protects rivers and wetlands that hosts exceptional biodiversity, including Jaguars, Pumas, Ocelots, Giant Anteaters, and over 250 bird species.

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ReefWatch Marine Conservation, based in India, has been working since 1993 to protect and restore coastal and ocean ecosystems. ReefWatch restores coral reefs, rescues and rehabilitates sea turtles and cetaceans while generating critical ocean health data. Complementing this, ReefWatch’s Ghost Net Retrieval and buy-back programs prevent plastic pollution by partnering with fishing communities and promoting circular economy solutions.

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Antarctic Rights is pioneering the vision to recognise Antarctica and the surrounding Southern Ocean as a living entity with intrinsic legal rights. This initiative addresses a governance gap, which currently lacks direct representation for the Antarctic ecosystem, extending the global Nature Rights movement to the only continent without sovereign ownership. By promoting guardianship, they are strengthening cross-continental guardianship of Antarctica’s critical ecosystems and climate-regulating functions.

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Wild Africa pioneers locally-led storytelling to protect Africa’s wildlife and wild spaces. Through billboards, radio, TV, social media, music, and public service campaigns, Wild Africa amplifies African voices to shift attitudes, influence behaviour, and reduce threats in support of Africa’s wildlife. Wild Africa demonstrates how communication and cultural connection can inspire coexistence between people and nature across the continent.

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The Global Rewilding Alliance welcomes Naturefuture, a platform for amplifying funding for conservation across India. Their digital platform serves as a bridge that connects corporations and philanthropists with diligently vetted NGOs working for nature recovery. Through funding matchmaking, and beyond, their team is dedicated to the scaling of longlasting, impactful restoration of India’s unique wildlife and ecosystems.

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The Inga Foundation promotes Inga Alley Cropping as a sustainable alternative to ‘Slash and Burn’ agriculture, which destroys tropical rainforests. This revolutionary method integrates fast-growing, nitrogen-fixing Inga trees into farmland, with crops like maize grown in the alleys. The Inga trees are soil-healing superheroes that enrich the land, naturally suppress weeds, and provide clean firewood. This approach offers farmers economic resilience while allowing deforested land to recover. The flagship project in Honduras supports 600 families, has transformed 2,400 hectares, and sequestered and avoided over a million tons of CO2, proving that human needs and nature recovery can be met simultaneously.

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Belmont Estate is dedicated to restoring biodiversity and combating climate change across three UK sites. Originating from one family’s wish to reconnect with nature, the main estate uses natural grazing with cattle and ponies to create diverse habitats and a resilient landscape. A standout project is Watercress Farm, transformed from degraded land into a wetland paradise through rewetting, benefiting over 2,420 species and mitigating flooding. In Scotland, the estate is rewilding on a grand scale to support iconic species and enhance carbon sequestration through peatlands and forests. Belmont emphasizes education, community engagement, and collaboration to promote a wild and abundant future.

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Affric Highlands is leading the UK’s largest rewilding project, transforming 200,000 hectares of the Scottish Highlands. The community-led initiative seeks to reverse centuries of deforestation and overgrazing by restoring a resilient mosaic of native woodlands, scrublands, and peatlands, supporting the regeneration of native trees and iconic species like Red Squirrels and Black Grouse. A key feature is a scientific collaboration, including tracking GPS-collared red deer, to balance wildlife management with woodland recovery. The project builds trust through voluntary partnerships with landowners and engages the local community via citizen science, and the support of nature-based economies.

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Itombwe Génération pour l’Humanité is a community-powered NGO in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Itombwe Mountains, dedicated to preserving this critical biodiversity hotspot. Operating within the Albertine Rift, they champions a holistic model intertwining nature and people. Their work includes anti-poaching patrols (clearing over 26,000 snares), community-led reforestation (planting 1.24 million native tree seedlings), and protecting endangered species like the Grauer’s Gorilla and Chimpanzee. They also improve livelihoods for over 2,600 households through programs like coffee agroforestry and livestock farming, easing reliance on illegal activities like bushmeat and mining.

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Bright Green Nature (BGN), is an Alliance Partner based in Scotland, focused on rewilding landscapes and reconnecting communities with nature. Their main ecological projects include Restoring Wetlands using historic maps and Reintroducing natural processes through native grazing with Angus cattle and Exmoor ponies. BGN also fosters community engagement through programs like “Wild Your Space” microgrants, a Garden Tool Library, Outdoor learning, and Youth Programmes. Their work is rooted in partnership and supports a vision of a wilder, healthier Scotland.

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Sekakoh is dedicated to safeguarding the Cameroon’s rich biodiversity under the motto, “Living in Harmony with Nature.” They operate in vital landscapes like Kom Forest, Bénoué National Park, and Ebo Forest, protecting endangered species such as the Nigeria-Cameroon chimpanzee and Kordofan giraffe. Sekakoh blends community involvement, data collection, and strong partnerships to uplift both people and wildlife, restoring hope for Cameroon’s threatened ecosystems. We are proud to have them in our Alliance.

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Inspired by a single elephant, the Eden to Addo Corridor Initiative aims to create a vital 400km conservation corridor. Located in South Africa, this ambitious project seeks to link the protected areas from the Garden Route’s Eden to the Addo Elephant National Park, ensuring safe passage for wildlife and promoting biodiversity across a significant landscape. A powerful example of rewilding through ecological connectivity and habitat preservation, we are proud to welcome Eden to Addo to our Alliance.

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Dhun is a pioneering, regenerative neighbourhood in arid Jaipur, India. It transformed 500 barren acres into a biodiverse, water-positive habitat. Restoring water, planting 300,000+ trees, Dhun dedicates over 70% of its land as green zones, focuses on community wellbeing, is India’s first real estate B-Corp and a globally recognized, replicable model for drylands worldwide. We are delighted to welcome them to our Alliance.

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Phillip Island Nature Parks, a new Alliance Partner located in Australia, is dedicated to a successful community-led rewilding effort focused on healing the island’s biodiversity and “keeping Country strong,” as described by the Traditional Owners, the Bunurong. This ambitious project aims to restore lost ecological functions by reintroducing key wildlife species, and forging deep partnership with local communities, ensuring that the healing of the land honors deep connections between people and place.

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Tucked into ancient woodlands, Wildwood Trust celebrates Britain’s wild heritage—past, present and future. Stroll along their winding woodland paths and you’ll meet an incredible cast of characters. The Wildwood Trust cares for more than 200 native animals across its sites located in Kent and Devon. Many people visit these sites to reconnect with nature and our native species. By kindling a passion for wildlife, Wildwood Trust motivates our sense of responsibility to safeguard it.

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The Global Rewilding Alliance has grown to a strong network of over 250 organisations that are restoring nature across the globe. This week, we are delighted to welcome Apis Arborea, who are championing the rewilding of wild honeybees—our vital, hardworking pollinators—by restoring their natural habitats and self-willed ecological processes. They bridge science, ethics, and biomimicry to rehabilitate wild honeybee populations while reimagining of human-honeybee coexistence rooted in reciprocity and ecological wisdom.

Credits: Apis Arborea

Across Australia’s sweeping deserts, ancient savannas, and misty mountain forests. From the Top End to temperate bushland, our new Alliance Partner Australian Wildlife Conservancy (AWC), is lighting a hopeful path for Australian wildlife—and they’re doing it with science, scale and soul. Collectively, AWC is contributing to conservation outcomes across approximately 1.7% of Australia. Whether tracking elusive mammals with camera traps, tagging birds, or mapping plant communities, AWC’s science team ensures that every hectare protected and every species restored is part of a broader ecological story.

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The West African Conservation Network (WACN), our newest Alliance Partner, was born from a strong urge to restore West Africa’s vibrant biodiversity. On landscapes where the Nigerian Giraffe, the Roan Antelope, the African Forest and the African Savanna Elephant once roamed, WACN blends scientific rigor, community empowerment, strong governmental partnerships and bold on-the-ground action. Their mission is to ensure the survival of iconic species like the West African Lions, the West African Hartebeest, Ostriches, Elephants, and Waterbucks while restoring the thriving ecosystems that once was West Africa—sustaining both wildlife and local communities. We are happy to welcome them into the Alliance!

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Imagine European landscapes where nature thrives within and alongside villages, where wild Horses gallop freely, Bison roam woodlands, and meadows bloom with life. FREE Nature—the Foundation for Restoring European Ecosystems— has made the vision of such landscapes possible across the Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany.
Established in 2007, as a division of ARK Rewilding, their experience goes back much further. Since the 1990s, they have promoted the importance of natural grazing. Over the course of more than 25 years, FREE Nature has acquired a wealth of knowledge about the natural lives of wild-living horses and bovine such as European bison and water buffalo.
We are honoured to welcome FREE Nature to our Alliance.

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The Alliance continues to grow beyond 260+ partners around the world. This week, we venture to Chile in the wild, wind-swept landscapes of Torres del Paine, Patagonia, as we warmly welcome Fundación Cerro Guido Conservación (FCGC), our new Alliance Partner. This is a place where nature thrives alongside deep cultural traditions—where protecting biodiversity also means protecting local identity. Rooted in the unique natural and cultural heritage of Estancia Cerro Guido, Chile, the foundation is working to heal ecosystems, celebrate rural culture, and build a future where people and wildlife flourish together.

Photo credit: Fundación Cerro Guido Conservación.

From Darwin’s finches to deep-sea corals, the Galapagos is a living laboratory of evolution – and Charles Darwin Foundation is its most dedicated caretaker. Their team of researchers, based at the Charles Darwin Research Station, studies everything from the incredible biodiversity of Galapagos to invasive species to climate change impacts across land and sea. CDF’s work has been pivotal in pulling species back from the brink, notably rewilding more than 8,000 giant tortoises and supporting countless more species. Their blend of rigorous science, bold restoration, and grassroots engagement offers a blueprint for rewilding worldwide. They work hand-in-hand with the Galapagos National Park Directorate, local communities, international scientists and donors to turn research into tangible solutions. Join us in welcoming the Charles Darwin Foundation into the Global Rewilding Alliance!

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Taashii is a shining example of urban and community-led rewilding that playfully call themselves “Serial Rewilders” – and for good reason. Through their dedicated application of the Miyawaki Method, they adopting a pragmatic yet visionary model for urban rewilding. In just a few years, Taashii has brought to life several dense native forests where there once was asphalt—enhancing carbon capture, increasing biodiversity, and empowering people to protect and grow those ecosystems. We are delighted to welcome Taashi to our Alliance.

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Founded by a passionate group of friends, Sylvester is dedicated to tackling the environmental crisis. Their vision is to transform abandoned and neglected lands into thriving, biodiverse ecosystems through the power of collective effort and rewilding, managed through shared ownership and governance. We are proud to welcome Sylvester to the alliance – enabling everyone to be an owner and creator of nature in the wildest way imaginable!

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The Biodiversity Foundation is changing mindsets through culture and science. Their expert and cultural events bring rewilding to Asian audiences; they foster societal readiness for cohabitation with restored species by rewilding minds alongside landscapes in the region. Their approach, backed by field research, citizen science, and cross-disciplinary ventures, opens promising rewilding futures for South Korea. We are proud to welcome The Biodiversity Foundation as a partner.

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The Global Rewilding Alliance continues to grow! We are proud to welcome Selva Teenek, a wildlife rescue organization based in Mexico, who protects and rehabilitates hundreds of animals through their on the ground rescue work, helping species ranging from xenarthrans (like Armadillos and Tamanduas) to felines (Jaguars, Pumas, Ocelots). Their blend of advanced rehabilitation techniques, community education, and ethical wildlife tourism fosters long-term ecological restoration and human respect for their animal kin. We are delighted to welcome Selva Teenek to the Alliance!

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The Global Rewilding Alliance is proud to welcome Collettivo Rewild Sicily as our newest partner. With a mix of science, creativity, and community spirit, this collective is demonstrating that even in one of the most human-shaped landscapes in Europe, nature can bounce back – and people are part of the solution. If you’ve ever dreamed of a wilder, greener future, Collettivo Rewild Sicily is here to remind you: it’s possible, and it starts with us.

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Our network of rewilding organisations around the world continues to grow! Somerset Wildlands joins our 250+ partners, from the heart of Somerset, who are restoring the Somerset Levels. With a bold mission to create space for nature, this grassroots initiative is proving that even in a densely populated and intensively farmed region, wildness can return—and with it, hope for a more biodiverse and resilient future.

Photo credit: Somerset Wildlands.

Our network continues to expand! Steeped in a rich environmental history, The Wilderness Leadership School recognises the necessity for people to connect with Nature, and makes it its mission to provide a pure wilderness experience to people of all backgrounds. The Global Rewilding Alliance are pleased to welcome the Wilderness Leadership School as Alliance partners.

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The Global Rewilding Alliance are proud to welcome Conservation X Labs and their ever-expanding community of innovators reinventing what it means to heal nature. By offering inclusive space for people of varied backgrounds to work together, they encourage a wide range of people to use their talents to create solutions. With Conservation X Labs as our Alliance Partner, we’re looking forward to discovering solutions that are actively restoring our world’s ecosystems – for people and planet.

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The Global Rewilding Alliance are proud to welcome IFAW as close partners and one of our stellar group of Global Rewilding Champions – those organisations and high-net-worth individuals who support the Global Rewilding Alliance with core funding over three years. Their global work contributes to nature recovery on the ground as well as international policy action.

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The Global Rewilding Alliance continues to grow! This week, we welcome Reflorestar Portugal – a pioneering organization dedicated to building biodiverse agroforestry systems via community involvement. Their slogan ‘Think like a Forest’ reveals their mission to act as part of a living, intelligent and evolving system.

Photo credit: Ana Tores, Reflorestar PT.

The Global Rewilding Alliance continues to grow, and this week we warmly welcome Nuwat to the network and their founder Dr Reem AlMealla to our Board. Nuwat is a think tank, education provider and advisory in Bahrain that specialises in environmental research and marine rewilding on a national, regional and international level.

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The Global Rewilding Alliance is growing every week! Today we warmly welcome Nature People Network that is restoring community-owned forest land, along with savannahs, in Chhattisgarh, India. This ambitious project brings together grassroots organizations with rural village councils to bring about positive change.

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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.

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.

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The University of Manchester is launching the world’s first MSc in Nature Recovery, Restoration, and Rewilding, and the GRA is a proud collaborator. This program offers a unique blend of practical, field-based learning and interdisciplinary insights into nature restoration, designed for anyone passionate about making a tangible difference in the rewilding world.

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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 ReforestACCIÓN who are supporting native woodland ecosystems across Mexico.

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The Global Rewilding Alliance is growing each week! We warmly introduce Natural Neighbours, with their vision of towns and cities that reach their full potential to host wildlife. They ask: How can we bring the wonders of the natural world to the 9.6 million people in England living in neighbourhoods without gardens or greenspaces?

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The Global Rewilding Alliance has grown to a strong network of over 200 organisations that are restoring nature around the world. This week, we warmly welcome eMission-X that is leading a quiet, yet understated revolution in land management across Northern Germany.

Photo credit: eMission-X, 5176 sqm of eMission-X’s moorland.

The Global Rewilding Alliance is growing each week! We warmly introduce Atazis, our new Alliance Partner, who are connecting many stakeholders in Iran to the concept of “Green Life” through education, empowerment, research, dialogue, and collaboration.

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The Global Rewilding Alliance has grown to a strong network of over 200 organisations that are restoring nature around the world. This week, we warmly welcome Rewildology to the alliance, a podcast that spotlights the voices of the rewilding movement. Bringing listeners the wild, uplifting stories of transformative efforts to rewild our world.

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The Global Rewilding Alliance is growing each week! We warmly introduce WebConserva, that are building wildlife corridors and coffee plantations to improve human-wildlife coexistence in this region that boasts incredible biodiversity, among which are jaguars, pumas, and Andean bears.

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The Global Rewilding Alliance has grown to a strong network of over 200 organisations that are restoring nature around the world. This week, we warmly welcome Redemption Against Poverty Org (RAPO) to the alliance, who are bridging the dual challenges of poverty and climate change through nature restoration that keep local communities at the heart of positive action.

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Rewilding is happening now, on every continent. This week we warmly welcome the AWE for Nature Foundation, that is redefining how natural ecosystems are valued and protected in Africa, building a future where African wilderness is preserved and financed for decades to come.

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People and local communities at the core of this movement are united for nature recovery, and the movement is growing. This week we warmly introduce Severson Dells to the alliance, who are restoring the native prairies, oak savannas, and wetlands of a former golf course, while also transforming the former clubhouse into a centre for education and community events.

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The Global Rewilding Alliance are a growing network of rewilders that are bringing back nature all over the world. This week we warmly welcome Instituto Serra do Tanagará, who are rewilding the Brazilian Atlantic Forest.

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We warmly introduce V5 and their SOSOrinoco Initiative, that are helping to protect and rewild the Venezuelan Amazon rainforest and support the local communities at the core of their work. SOSOrinoco is committed to supporting indigenous communities whose cultures and livelihoods are deeply intertwined with the health of the rainforest.

Photo credit: V5 Initiative.

We warmly introduce Oltuala that are showing that everyone has a role to play in nature restoration. Back in 2021, four close friends came together to purchase land on the border of the majestic Maasai Mara National Reserve, and now nature is coming roaring back.

The Oltuala team. Photo credit: Olutala.

This week we introduce you to a new Alliance Partner that, through engaging storytelling and in-depth features, highlights rewilding initiatives that restore habitats and biodiversity. REWILDING SOUTHERN AFRICA is an upmarket quarterly publication that inspires action by celebrating nature’s resilience and connecting readers to the urgent need for nature’s recovery.

Photo credit: As published in REWILDING SA – photo by Clint Ralph.

Welcoming Mossy Earth to the alliance. A rewilding membership that restores nature across a wide range of landscapes, and gets everyday people participating in the return of healthy ecosystems. Read about the return of Flooded Forests, Ocelots, Coral Reefs, Oyster Gardens, Ground Squirrels, and the enchanting underwater Cave Salamanders! The list could go on… but let’s dive in!

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We warmly welcome the Global Humane Society to the alliance, and join us in discovering their mission to conserve, rewild and protect Africa’s wildlife and wilderness areas by delving into some of their rewilding success stories. Rewilding with cheetahs in the Eastern Cape, bolstering wild African penguin populations in Cape Town and combatting poaching with AI; this is packed with wild success stories!

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Our newest two Alliance partners, Bat Conservation International and the Northeast Mexico Agave Restoration Network, are working to restore agave habitats so that people and bats can thrive. Creating a thriving bi-national migratory corridor, their work is ambitious while supporting both bat recovery and sustainable livelihoods.

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Based in Northern Iraq, Leopards Beyond Borders are committed to rewilding across the Middle East through the return of apex predators like the Persian leopard. Rewilding these landscapes and species requires cooperation that must transcend political boundaries and conflicts. Get to know our Alliance Partner.

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This week we warmly welcome Island Conservation, who are rewilding entire islands that host a massive amount of our planet’s biodiversity and unique endemic species despite their relatively small land mass. Their team is devoted to restoring islands for nature and people worldwide, envisioning a world filled with vibrant biodiversity, resilient oceans, and thriving island communities.

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Welcome to three incredible rewilding organisations that are proving that everyone has a role to play in nature restoration, each in a holistic, community-oriented and inspiring way. 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 Forktree Project, Reduce Reuse Grow and Rewild New Jersey Community Cooperative.

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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.

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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.

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In this article, we introduce you to three rewilding organisations from our network so that you can hear each week about some of the exciting success stories, challenges and ambitious aims. This week, we are rewilding Bison in the UK, our ocean’s kelp forests and find out how the recovery of Golden-Headed Lion Tamarins shows hope for the entire ecosystem in Brazil. We warmly welcome three new Alliance Partners: Wilder Blean Bison Project, AMAP Brasil and Oceanwise.

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Rewilding is happening now all over the world, both on land and at sea, bringing back key species and restoring entire ecosystems at all scales. We introduce 3 new Alliance Partners: Samara Karoo Reserve, Instituto Fauna Brasil and Junglo.

Photo credit: Mitch Reardon, Samara Karoo Reserve

Rewilding is happening now, everywhere. We introduce three Alliance Partners who are rewilding mistbelt forests, wild horses and coral reefs.

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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 solutions for the global climate crisis.

Welcome the newest members of the Global Rewilding Alliance – The Adirondack Council and SUGi

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