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IUCN launches Global Guidelines for Rewilding – a Paradigm Shift in Global Conservation

IUCN launches Global Guidelines for Rewilding – a Paradigm Shift in Global Conservation

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has released its groundbreaking “Guidelines for Rewilding”, a landmark document offering guidance for implementing rewilding projects worldwide. Developed by the IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management (CEM) and its Rewilding Thematic Group, this document represents a historic milestone for global conservation — one that places rewilding at the center of the world’s nature recovery agenda. These Guidelines will undoubtedly catalyse greater recognition and engagement from governments, international institutions, and practitioners worldwide, as the global rewilding movement stands ready to scale up its impact.

Credits: Mlharing from Getty Images

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From toddlers to policy makers: These rewilding illustrations are transforming our relationship with nature

From toddlers to policy makers: These rewilding illustrations are transforming our relationship with nature

There’s no denying rewilding is a complex topic to communicate about. It requires understanding whole-systems, ecosystem interactions, keystone species and interconnections within ecosystems. Storytelling can sometimes fall short of ecology – and not do justice to the complexity of Nature and the work of ecologists.
This is where illustrations come in: they can have an impact words alone cannot.
On September 15, 2025, we had the pleasure of hosting ecological illustrator and rewilder Jeroen Helmer and communicator and campaigner Anne-Marie Pronk from ARK Rewilding Netherlands in our Global Rewilding Communicators Network session. Having worked alongside ARK Rewilding Netherlandd for 36 years, Anne-Marie and Jeroen are well-acquainted with harnessing illustrations to support ARK’s ground work, shifting perception in favour of wild landscapes for nation-wide campaigns.

Credits: Jeroen Helmer – Ark Rewilding Netherlands.

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Earthly Insight joins our Global Rewilding Champions

Earthly Insight joins our Global Rewilding Champions

Earthly Insight joins our Global Rewilding Champions, supporting the foundational work of the Global Rewilding Alliance and our worldwide team. We delve into some frequently asked questions to explain our new partnership with the innovative tech company, Earthly Insight. We are aware that AI looms large on people’s minds, and so we welcome you to this ongoing, evolving conversation.

Photo credits: Andri Priyadi from Getty Images.

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Wildlife-Centred Wetland Policy Takes Root at Ramsar COP15

Wildlife-Centred Wetland Policy Takes Root at Ramsar COP15

Global Rewilding Alliance (GRA) launches landmark Africa Special Report in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe. Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, COP15, has now concluded. During this pivotal event, the GRA officially launched the Taking Animals Into Account: Africa Special Report, a bold step toward placing wildlife at the heart of wetland policy and restoration.

Photo credit: Mantaphoto from Getty Images Signature.

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The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands – bringing the elephant into the room at COP15 and beyond.

The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands – bringing the elephant into the room at COP15 and beyond.

The Global Rewilding Alliance exists to catalyse the global rewilding movement. Part of this journey is to support Rewilding In Action by convening experts and influencing policy and action at a global scale. Delve into our collective action for wetlands at COP15 and beyond, our new report on African wetlands, and the importance of recognising wild animals.

Photo credits: NamibElephant from Getty Images Signature.

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Wildlife Protection and Rewilding are Climate Solutions – preparing for the Climate COP30

Wildlife Protection and Rewilding are Climate Solutions – preparing for the Climate COP30

In preparation for the Climate COP30, partners and policymakers around the world are encouraging the vital incorporation of wildlife and rewilding into countries’ revised NDCs. Grounded in peer-reviewed evidence of ‘Animating the Carbon Cycle’, key partner IFAW have developed guidelines for countries to include wild animals as a solution to both the biodiversity and climate crises.

Photo credit: Joesboy from Getty Images Signature

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Key outcomes from the CBD COP16

Key outcomes from the CBD COP16

Our team came away from the Convention on Biological Diveristy (CBD) COP16 inspired and energised with a clear impression: governments are waking up to the crucial message that we must partner with nature. Recognising and integrating wild animals, rewilding and indigenous people’s political power in the implementation of the CBD. The international policy community accepts the link between nature and climate. Here are our reflections.

Photo credit: United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity

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Rewilding Hope Land to Sea Conference June 2024

Rewilding Hope Land to Sea Conference June 2024

‘Rewilding Hope – Land to Sea’, hosted by Climate Action North, was a two-day conference that brought an array of rewilders together to share hopeful rewilding stories, challenges and ambitions. This UK-focused conference still holds relevance at a global scale, especially because so many of the running themes, topics and challenges across the event are widely applicable, and the level of expertise was high.

Photo Credit: Slaney Maciel from Getty Images

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Rewilded Bison are climate heroes – new research

Rewilded Bison are climate heroes – new research

New research from Yale University shows that 170 rewilded European Bison in Romania’s Tarcu mountains are helping to draw down and store the equivalent CO2 emissions of removing up to 84,000 average US petrol cars from the road. It turns out that European Bison can play an astonishing role in capturing carbon to mitigate the impact of climate change.

Photo credit: Daniel Mirlea

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Rewilding Makes Good Headway at COP 28

Rewilding Makes Good Headway at COP 28

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 events with partners including Whale and Dolphin Conservatio, IFAW, The Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund, Re:Wild, Yale School of the Environment (YSE), IUCN Species Survival Commission, The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB), Birdlife International and Altyn Dala Conservation Initiative.

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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.

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

he 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 and overconsumption. Although we today know that intact, high-functioning ecosystems provide the best defence against climate change, already 30 years ago ecologists identified the need for “rewilding” the Earth for restoring biodiversity.

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