Credits: Mlharing from Getty Images IUCN’s new Guidelines for Rewilding mark a global milestone, recognising rewilding as a core pathway for nature recovery and sustainable development. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has released its...
From toddlers to policy makers: These rewilding illustrations are transforming our relationship with nature
Credits: Jeroen Helmer, ARK Netherlands Harnessing Communications Tools - A meeting of the Global Rewilding Communicators Network, with Jeroen Helmer & Anne-Marie Pronk, ARK Rewilding Netherlands Illustrations are transforming rewilding communication — turning...
Earthly Insight joins our Global Rewilding Champions
Photo credit: Andri Priyadi from Getty Images. Earthly Insight joins our Global Rewilding Champions, supporting the foundational work of the Global Rewilding Alliance and our worldwide team. “We are delighted that Earthly Insight have not only decided to support our...
Wildlife-Centred Wetland Policy Takes Root at Ramsar COP15
Photo credit: Mantaphoto from Getty Images Signature. Global Rewilding Alliance launches landmark Africa Special Report in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe. The 15th Meeting of the Conference of the Contracting Parties to the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands (Ramsar COP15) has...
The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands – bringing the elephant into the room at COP15 and beyond.
Photo credits: NamibElephant from Getty Images Signature. This week, the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Contracting Parties to the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands (COP15) will be held in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, from July 23 to 31, 2025. We are bringing our...
Wildlife Protection and Rewilding are Climate Solutions – preparing for the Climate COP30
Photo credit: Joesboy from Getty Images Signature. As the next meeting of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) approaches in Belém, Brazil, on 10th - 21st November 2025, partners and policymakers around the world are coming together to...
Key outcomes from the CBD COP16
Photo credit: United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity Recognising and integrating wild animals, rewilding and indigenous people’s political power in the Convention on Biological Diversity. The international policy community accepts the link between nature...
Rewilding Hope Land to Sea Conference June 2024
Photo Credit: Slaney Maciel from Getty Images Recently, rewilders came together to share hopeful rewilding stories across a two-day online conference to mark this year’s World Environment Day and World Oceans Day. If you missed it, well, silly you. But we have your...
Rewilded Bison are climate heroes – new research
Photo credit: Daniel MirleaNew 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...
2024 World Rewilding Day Theme Announced: Hope Into Action
Photo credit: WWF-Australia & Tasmanian Land ConservancyRewilding 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...
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...
The Right To A Healthy Planet Finally Endorsed By UN
THE RIGHT TO A HEALTHY PLANET FINALLY ENDORSED BY UN In a historic vote on July 28, the United Nations General Assembly endorsed the universal human right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment. 50 years in the making, since the 1972 UN Conference on the...
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...
Tom Lovejoy, you will be dearly missed…
Tom Lovejoy, you will be dearly missed… By Vance G. Martin President, WILD FoundationSitting across from me at the dinner table in an elegant farmhouse in Northern Virginia was a smiling, youngish-looking man some 8-10 years my senior, with a bright bowtie. It was...
Ecosulis launches UK’s first rewilding internship programme
Ecosulis launches UK’s first rewilding internship programme The pioneering graduate internship programme, which kicked off on the first ever World Rewilding Day, will allow young people to begin their rewilding career and shape the emerging profession. An investment...
Calling For Nominations For The Wangari Maathai Award
Calling For Nominations For The Wangari Maathai Award Do you know a true forest champion? Nominations for the Wangari Maathai Award due October 15th! The Global Rewilding Alliance would like to nominate its deserving members and needs your help! The Collaborative...
Private Funders of the New ‘Protecting Our Planet Challenge’ Announce $5 Billion Commitment to Protect and Conserve 30% of Planet by 2030
Private Funders of the New ‘Protecting Our Planet Challenge’ Announce $5 Billion Commitment to Protect and Conserve 30% of Planet by 2030 Re:wild, a co-founding member of the Global Rewilding Alliance, announces that nine organisations have joined together to pledge...
Launch of IPBES-IPCC Co-Sponsored Workshop Report on Biodiversity and Climate Change
Launch of IPBES-IPCC Co-Sponsored Workshop Report on Biodiversity and Climate Change In December 2020, 50 of the world’s leading biodiversity and climate experts, selected by a 12-person Scientific Steering Committee assembled by IPBES and IPCC, participated in a...
ANIMATING THE CARBON CYCLE June 3, 4-5:30pm CEST / 10-11:30am EDT
ANIMATING THE CARBON CYCLEJune 3, 4-5:30pm CEST / 10-11:30am EDT Nature is a powerful ally for solving the climate emergency. Both nature and climate are the linked systems at the foundation of our biosphere. When we protect the most intact, wild places on Earth at...
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 -...
Interview: Global Rewilding Alliance
Interview: Global Rewilding AllianceWhat specific urgent challenges does your project address? What in your past, upbringing or conservation career inspired you to address this challenge at this time? MAGNUS: To create a more livable environment for society worldwide,...
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.










