Photo credit: Clive Dryer, Gorongosa
We Are Actively Restoring
Earth’s Functionality, Together –
Around the world, the rewilding community is bringing nature back – on land, in freshwater, and across the oceans – to restore the health and function of Earth’s ecosystems. This benefits biodiversity and wildlife, while supporting the health and economic wellbeing of people everywhere.
The Global Rewilding Alliance is uniting partners across continents under a shared rewilding vision. While most of our Alliance Partners work at local or national levels, coming together at the global level allows us to influence global awareness, policies, and decisions that ultimately shape national and local rewilding agendas.
Together, we are developing shared strategies and mechanisms to advance rewilding, emphasizing the critical role of wild animals in connecting biodiversity with ecosystem services.
By aligning our efforts globally, we amplify our collective impact.
Nature Recovery Around the World
We are connecting partners around key rewilding themes such as Wetlands, Rangelands and Climate, as well as advocacy targets like the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).
Each thematic focused working group brings together a core team of practitioners and experts connected through shared ecosystems and priorities. Together, they collaborate to demonstrate how wild animals enable and enhance ecosystem services, from buffering against droughts and providing clean water, to drawing down vast amounts of carbon. Through collaboration, our partners influence both national and international goals, share strategies and support each other to catalyse their impact.
Our Thematic Focused Work
WETLANDS
Photo credit: Matias Rebak, Rewilding Argentina
Our working group, composed of more than 15 rewilding organisations, put together evidence-based reports and case studies highlighting the critical role of wild animals in shaping wetland ecosystems and the services they provide.
RANGELANDS
Organisations active in rangelands connect and collaborate to shape tomorrow’s policies that prioritise ecosystem functionality.
CLIMATE
Photo credit: Nick Dunlap, Unsplash
We are advancing the science that reveals the central but overlooked role of wild animals in climate regulation with the initiative ‘Animating the Carbon Cycle’.
MARINE &
OCEAN
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GET INVOLVED
If you’re working on a specific rewilding theme such as Wetlands, Rangelands or Marine & Oceans, and would like to participate to influence global awareness, policy and decisions, please contact Magnus Sylven, Global Rewilding Alliance’s Director of Science, Policy, and Practice.
Wild Animals: Essential to Healthy Ecosystems
Nature’s Engineers
The web of life on Planet Earth consists of an intricate network of processes operating at a local, landscape, regional, continental, and global level, and healthy ecosystems depend on wild animals to function properly.
From large herbivores to apex predators, these species shape landscapes, regulate natural processes, and support the resilience of nature. Unfortunately, this is often overlooked in the global policy community, despite there being many conventions that seek to create international-scale positive action.
As their populations decline, so too does the quantity and quality of the ecosystem services and natural goods we all rely on for the survival, wellbeing, and prosperity of rural and urban communities.
We are now convening to highlight the critical role that wild animals play in sustaining the natural systems we all rely on. The reintroduction and flourishing of these animal species also creates the conditions for other wildlife to return, thereby recreating whole, healthy and resilient ecosystems, which we all need for our own well-being and survival.
Image credit: Albert Salemgareyev
To catalyse change at a global scale, we need to cooperate, and our working groups and research aim to do this for our planet’s critical ecosystems.
Get involved, or discover more our current thematic focused work on wetlands & climate.