Nan Zeng & Alister Scott on Conservation, Rewilding & Leadership

by GRA Team

Nan Zeng holds a PhD in Ecology. She has worked eight years in NGOs in China, where her work focused on promoting nature-based solutions in science, policy, and practice to achieve synergistic governance of climate change and biodiversity. This interview between Nan...

Taking Animals Into Account: The critical role of wild animals in shaping wetland ecosystems and the services they provide. A Report to the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands

by GRA Team

The groundbreaking report reveals how wild animals play an underestimated but vital role in keeping the world’s wetlands functional and resilient. Compiled by the Global Rewilding Alliance and ten partner organisations, the study outlines impactful evidence that...

Quantifying the impacts of rewilding on ecosystem resilience to disturbances: A global meta-analysis

by GRA Team

A meta-analysis to explore whether rewilding aimed at increasing biodiversity, disturbance stochasticity or connectivity increase ecosystem resilience. Rewilding generally enhances resilience with nearly 70% of observations reporting positive outcomes, 10% neutral and...

Intertwined people-nature relations are central to nature-based adaptation to climate change

by GRA Team

Fabien Quétier, Head of Landscapes at Rewilding Europe, has co-authored another important study that, in his words “Highlights the importance of understanding and integrating social, ecological, and social-ecological relations in climate change adaptation,...

Shifting baselines and the forgotten giants: integrating megafauna into plant community ecology

by GRA Team

This paper, focussing mainly on plants, shows how large herbivores directly impact ecosystem diversity and functionality through changes to selection, speciation, drift and...