The Global Rewilding Alliance is working with a variety of experts to systematically compile, review and share the evidence on the benefits of rewilding. Dive into the rewilding research and gain invaluable insights from esteemed scientists and researchers worldwide.
Taking Animals Into Account: Africa Special Report to the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands
Magnus Sylvén, Chloe Eckert, Nonie Coulthard, Eleanor Carter, Jack Coupland, Bartolomeu Soto et al
01/07/2025 by The Global Rewilding Alliance
Global alternatives of natural vegetation cover
Jean-Franciois Bastin, Nicolas Latte, Jan Bogaert, Claude A. Garcia, Fabio Berzaghi et al
16/07/2025 in Nature Communications
Semi-wild horse grazing as a rewilding strategy: assessing effects on vegetation structure and composition in the Côa Valley, Portugal
Inês Ribeiro, Sara Aliácar, Tiago Domingos, Davy McCracken & Vânia Proença
18/06/2025 in Frontiers
The Deer and the Tiger, the Forest and the Carbon
Oswald J. Schmitz
07/05/2025 in Global Change Biology
Global Tiger Density Linked With Forest Carbon Stock, Top-Down and Bottom-Up
Nathan James Roberts, Abishek Harihar, Xuhui Zhou, Wen She, Guangshun Jiang
07/05/2025 in Global Change Biology
Migrating baleen whales transport high-latitude nutrients to tropical and subtropical ecosystems
Joe Roman, Andrew J. Abraham, Jeremy J. Kiszka, Daniel P. Costa, Christopher E. Doughty, Ari Friedlaender et al
10/03/2025 in Nature Communications
Beyond the closed-forest paradigm: Cross-scale vegetation structure in temperate Europe before the late-Quaternary megafauna extinctions
Elena A. Pearce, Florence Mazier, Charles W. Davison, Oliver Baines, Szymon Czyzewski, Ralph Fyfe et al
01/03/2025 in Earth History & Biodiversity
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
Magnus Sylvén, Chloe Eckert, Nachiket Kelkar, Anish Andheria, Leo Linnartz, Mario Cipollone et al
02/02/2025 by The Global Rewilding Alliance
Quantifying the impacts of rewilding on ecosystem resilience to disturbances: A global meta-analysis
Miriam Selwyn, Alba Lázaro-González, Francisco Lloret, José María Rey Benayas, Arndt Hampe, Lluís Brotons et al
31/01/2025 in Science Direct
Intertwined people-nature relations are central to nature-based adaptation to climate change
Bruno Locatelli, Sandra Lavorel, Matthew J. Colloff, Emilie Crouzat, Enora Bruley, Giacomo Fedele et al
09/01/2025 in The Royal Society Publishing
Shifting baselines and the forgotten giants: integrating megafauna into plant community ecology
Skjold Alsted Søndergaard, Camilla Fløjgaard, Rasmus Ejrnæs and Jens-Christian Svenning
05/01/2025 in Oikos
Realising the potential of a circular economy for wood-based materials
Ramboll Group
01/11/2024 by the Ellen Mcarthur Foundation
Toward the quantification of the climate co-benefits of invasive mammal eradication on islands: a scalable framework for restoration monitoring
Miroslav Honzák, Geoffrey Roberts, Bradley J Cosentino et al
03/10/2024 in Environmental Research Letters
Animating the Carbon Cycle website
The Global Rewilding Alliance
01/08/2024 by The Global Rewilding Alliance
The Global Rewilding Movement: Our Collective Impact
May Scott & Yasmine Grignard
01/03/2024 by The Global Rewilding Alliance
Substantial light woodland and open vegetation characterized the temperate forest biome before Homo sapiens
Elena A. Pearce, Florence Mazier, Signe Normand, Ralph Fyfe, Valérie Andrieu, Corrie Bakels, Zofia Balwierz et al
10/11/2023 in Science Advances
Megaherbivores provide biotic resistance against alien plant dominance
Ninad Avinash Mungi, Yadvendradev V. Jhala, Qamar Qureshi, Elizabeth le Roux & Jens-Christian Svenning
31/08/2023 in Nature Ecology & Evolution
Impacts of large herbivores on terrestrial ecosystems
Robert M. Pringle, Joel O. Abraham, T. Michael Anderson, Tyler C. Coverdale, Andrew B. Davies, Christopher L. Dutton et al
05/06/2023 in Cell Press – Current Biology
Rewilding, A Serious Candidate For Stabilising The Global Climate
The Global Rewilding Alliance
01/04/2023 by The Global Rewilding Alliance
Trophic Rewilding Can Expand Natural Climate Solutions
Oswald J. Schmitz, Magnus Sylven, Trisha B. Atwood, Elizabeth S. Bakker, Fabio Berzaghi, Jedediah F. Brodie et al
27/03/2023 in Nature, Climate Change - Commissioned by the GRA
Tracking the global application of conservation translocation and social attraction to reverse seabird declines
Dena R. Spatz, Lindsay C. Young, Nick D. Holmes, Graeme A. Taylor
06/03/2023 in PNAS
Ecological restoration for sustainable development in China
Bojie Fu, Yanxu Liu, Michael E Meadows
21/02/2023 in National Science Review
Harnessing island–ocean connections to maximize marine benefits of island conservation
Stuart A. Sandin, Penny A. Becker, Ceiba Becker, Brian J. Zgliczynski
27/10/2022 in PNAS
Ecological Protection and Livelihood Improvement in Ecologically Vulnerable Regions
ZHEN Lin, XU Zengrang, CHENG Wuxue
30/09/2022 in Journal of Resources and Ecology
Assessment of Seabird Restoration Priorities for the U.S. Pacific Islands
USFWS Migratory Bird Office - André F Raine, Jason Gregg, Scott Driskill & Helen Raine
01/09/2022 in Archipelago Research and Conservation