Welcome to the Global Rewilding Alliance blog…
An inspiring collection of rewilding stories, thought-pieces, reflections, news items and more.
Bat Conservation International: Securing a Wilder Future for Bats
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.
Photo credit: Horizonline Pictures.
Rewilding with Leopards Knows No Borders
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.
Photo credit: Artush
Rewilding entire islands for nature and people worldwide
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.
Photo credit: Island Conservation.
The Wild Side of 2024 – Celebrating the year’s many successes in the global rewilding movement
As we draw near to the end of this wild year, we are taking you on a journey around the world to celebrate the remarkable strides made in rewilding. From African Wild Dogs to European Wildcats, Pangolins to Eastern Quolls, countless species have been reintroduced, their home landscapes restored, and entire ecosystems are now thriving across all continents! Rewilders are having a global impact; planting seeds of hope through a wide range of positive actions.
Photo credit: Jan Mengr, Altyn Dala Conservation Initiative.
How to Build the Network Effects: Global Rewilding Communicators Network – September 2024 Edition
The Global Rewilding Communicators Network aims to connect communicators active in the rewilding movement from all around the world. The focus of this session was on ‘how to build the network effects within the rewilding movement’. Go ‘behind the scenes’ and find our summary of the main takeaways in this article.
Photo credits: Warren Farnell from Getty Images
Animating the carbon cycle: the nature-based solution addressing both our climate and ecological emergencies
Animating the Carbon Cycle (ACC) is an emerging field of science and policy, producing rigorous, peer-reviewed evidence to show how nature recovery is a credible, rapid and cost-efficient solution to address both the climate and biodiversity crises. A new comprehensive platform brings together tools and resources from collaborators in this field.
The ACC website (animatingcarbon.earth) is a comprehensive and regularly updated platform dedicated to providing the tools, resources, and practical guides for key stakeholders.
Being careful with words: Towards a language that respects and reverences nature
The rewilding movement is delivering positive change around the planet, and the momentum behind it continues to grow. Through a plethora of interconnected projects, humanity is honouring nature and offering reparation for past misdeeds. Yet, within society at large, much of the language that we use in describing the more-than-human world is rooted in a history of exploitation.…
In the Rewilding Reflections series, Joe Gray is taking us on some thoughtful journeys through the wider dimensions of rewilding.
Photo Credit: Eurasian magpie by Alexis Lours
Three rewilders proving that everyone has a role to play in nature recovery
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.
Photo credit: Reduce Reuse Grow.
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
We are Official Supporters of the High Ambition Coalition for Nature and People
The GRA has joined the High Ambition Coalition for Nature and People (HAC) as an official supporter. HAC is a leading, intergovernmental group of 119 countries united by a shared ambition to implement the global goal of effectively conserving and managing at least 30 percent of the world’s land and ocean by 2030. By joining the HAC, GRA will more easily reach out to key governments with priority messages, science-anchored information (such as ACC research) as well as promoting rewilding to achieve the 30×30 target.
Photo credit: Ivan Mikhaylov from Getty Images
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.
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.
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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
Stoking nature’s fire (and the flames within)
It is Midsummer’s Eve, and as the sun slides towards the tree-obscured horizon behind me, I sit facing south, looking for ripples. My seat is a log by the edge of a large pond, in a place whose name is not important here. Beyond the water stand birches and pines, and above their green fringe rises a bald mountain ridge; but it is the pond’s topaz-blue veneer that holds my gaze…
This is the first of a series of Rewilding Reflections, in which Joe Gray takes us on some thoughtful journeys through the wider dimensions of rewilding.
Rewilding European Bison, Golden-headed Lion Tamarins and kelp forests
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.
Photo credit: AMAP Brazil
Global Rewilding Communicators Network: June 2024 Edition
The Global Rewilding Communicators Network, an initiative by the Global Rewilding Alliance, aims to connect communicators active in the rewilding movement from all around the world. Our goal is to unite people across the movement, share best practices, highlight upcoming events, celebrate successes, and foster connections to better support one another. This article outlines all of the stories, ideas and next steps from the call.
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