Rewilding the World’s Rangelands
Saiga Antelope herd. Photo credit: Altyn Dala Conservation Initiative, Rob FieldRangelands cover more than half of the Earth's land surface, underpinning food systems, livelihoods, biodiversity, and climate regulation worldwide. Yet many are no longer functioning as they once were — large wild animals have been lost, food webs simplified, and...
Choose Our Future – World Rewilding Day on March 20th, 2026
Tulips in the desert. Credit: Albert Salemgareyev.Can you imagine a future that you want to live in? The future is shaped by the choices we make today. Rewilding is a hopeful, practical global movement restoring nature while creating jobs, reducing floods and fires, cooling cities, and bringing wildlife back—often faster than expected. From...
12 Principles of Rewilding: Rewilding Practitioners Putting Theory in Action
Brown Bear. Credit: Grégoire DuboisThe 12 Principles of Rewilding are a global framework for restoring ecosystems by working with nature and communities. Rooted in interconnectedness, hope, and collaboration, the principles guide practice to heal degraded lands and seas while protecting what remains intact. Rewilding emphasizes letting natural...
The Wetlands Action Plan launches in Africa to put wild animals at the centre of wetland management and policy
Credit: Turgut Kirkgoz from PexelsOn World Wetlands Day, 2nd February 2026, the Global Rewilding Alliance launches the three-year Wetlands Action Plan; a continent-wide, practical framework to embed rewilding, and the functional role of wildlife, into wetland policy, governance, and management. The Action Plan builds directly from strong, yet...
IUCN launches Global Guidelines for Rewilding – a Paradigm Shift in Global Conservation
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 groundbreaking “Guidelines for Rewilding”, a landmark document offering guidance for...
Local Impact, Global Responsibility: Australia at the Heart of our Shared Future
Hamelin Pool Coast, WA, Australia - Copyright: Ben Parkhurst, All rights reserved Successful and ambitious rewilding at scale necessitates that we collaborate and support each other at a global level. In this article, we outline why the work of Bush Heritage - alongside many other rewilding organisations in Australia - is relevant to us all, even...
Marc Stalmans: Honoring a Life That Brought Landscapes Back to Life
Written by Chloe Eckert and Magnus Sylvén Marc Stalmas. Photo Credit: The Gorongosa Project It is with profound sadness that we remember Dr. Marc Stalmans, who passed away on August 30th at the age of 66. As Science Director of Mozambique's Gorongosa National Park, Marc played a central role in one of the most significant rewilding efforts in the...
Engaging Landowners in Rewilding – how to motivate people for nature recovery on their land
Photo credit: Higorwood from Getty Images. Successful and ambitious rewilding at scale necessitates that we work proactively with private landowners. Yet how, exactly, to engage is less clear. Jennifer Gooden, CEO of Biophilia Foundation, explores principles drawn from the psychology of human motivation that can help us engage with key rewilding...
Marc Stalmans: Honoring a Life That Brought Landscapes Back to Life
Written by Chloe Eckert and Magnus Sylvén Marc Stalmas. Photo Credit: The Gorongosa Project It is with profound sadness that we remember Dr. Marc Stalmans, who passed away on August 30th at the age of 66. As Science Director of Mozambique's Gorongosa National Park, Marc played a central role in one of the most significant rewilding efforts in the...
Engaging Landowners in Rewilding – how to motivate people for nature recovery on their land
Photo credit: Higorwood from Getty Images. Successful and ambitious rewilding at scale necessitates that we work proactively with private landowners. Yet how, exactly, to engage is less clear. Jennifer Gooden, CEO of Biophilia Foundation, explores principles drawn from the psychology of human motivation that can help us engage with key rewilding...
(Green) Bridging the Gap: can corporate companies empower corridor growth while reaping benefits of their own?
An article by Swathi Palanichamy. Photo credit: CreativeNature_nl from Getty Images. Ever wondered why companies go out of their way to save endangered species or build bridges to boost habitat connectivity? What do they get out of it? Positive publicity by showing people that they care—sure! But there's more. Imagine you live in a region where...
How to Build the Network Effects: Global Rewilding Communicators Network – September 2024 Edition
Photo credit: Warren Farnell from Getty Images Meeting Summary – September 12, 2024 The Global Rewilding Communicators Network, an initiative of 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...
We are Official Supporters of the High Ambition Coalition for Nature and People
Photo credit: Ivan Mikhaylov from Getty Images In early autumn, the GRA 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...
A Sustainable Future Builds on a Positive Narrative
Photo credit: Michael Studinger from NASA CC0 Images Let’s seize the momentThe world has become global. People are more interconnected and consciously in the same boat as ever before. Earth’s citizens are probably more in agreement on positions important to their life than the political 50:50 split witnessed around the world and the urban/rural...
Global Rewilding Communicators Network: June 2024 Edition
Image Credit: Shazzashaw from Getty Images Signature Meeting Summary - June 25, 2024 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...
Rewilding and the Limits to Growth
Photo credit: Fernando Quevedo Rewilding is a timely, systemic and fundamental approach. To understand its relevance it is worthwhile to understand the context within which rewilding takes place and to not ignore the key driver behind many problems that we face.50 years old and unfortunately more valid than ever: Limits to Growth. It is...
The UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration
Terai Arc Landscape, Nepal. Photo credit: UNEP, 2023; Todd BrownThe UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration is a global initiative aimed at protecting and revitalising ecosystems worldwide for the benefit of both people and nature. Its goal is to stop ecosystem degradation and restore them to meet global objectives. Healthy ecosystems are essential...
New IUCN Paper – Guiding Principles for Rewilding
New IUCN Paper – Guiding Principles for Rewilding The co-chairs of the IUCN CEM Rewilding Thematic Group (RTG) along with 30 leading rewilding experts have published a paper in Conservation Biology on “Guiding Principles for Rewilding”. Ten basic principles are identified along with a core definition based on a detailed survey of rewilding...