WORLD REWILDING DAY
Join us to celebrate the inspiring rewilding movement:
March 20th, 2024
Welcome to the archived page for World Rewilding Day 2024, which contains just a glimpse of all the fantastic and important things that took place on the day under the banner of #HopeIntoAction.
For a deep dive, please also have a look at these two resources:
WORLD REWILDING DAY:
HOPE INTO ACTION
Rewilding is a practical solution to multiple problems that is actively restoring ecosystems in order to secure a thriving future for all. World Rewilding Day brings together rewilders and supporters from all around the world to celebrate our growing global movement.
This year’s theme #HopeIntoAction emphasises how rewilders are taking action to bring nature roaring back – hope is a doing word! Rewilders, fuelled by hope, take action that is addressing the climate crisis and reducing fire, flood and drought – as well as reversing nature’s decline.
Join us on this exciting journey filled with captivating stories that celebrate nature’s resilient comeback. Discover far-reaching and often unforeseen benefits that arise when we partner with nature.
REWILDERS IN ACTION!
Watch 60 seconds of rewilding around the world. Behind every restored ecosystem and species return, there is a team of inspirational people who are partnering with nature. See here how they are transforming hope into action!
COLLECTIVE IMPACT REPORT
World’s first attempt to summarise the collective impact of the global rewilding movement
This visually stunning, highly accessible 50-page report integrates many great stories, ideas and resources from across the movement. It is intended as a resource for the whole rewilding movement.
With this hugely rewarding read, we are showing that rewilding truly is a global movement now and that rewilders are organised, innovative, evidence-based, persistent, and pragmatic people – they are putting Hope Into Action.
We warmly invite you to give yourself time to read the many inspiring stories that we share here – you will be richly rewarded.
GET INVOLVED
in World Rewilding Day 2024
The main ways you can get involved to help celebrate on March 20th are:
1 – Follow these hashtags
Look out for these hashtags on your faviourite platforms; like, share and repost the uplifting stories and hopeful messages that represent the work of successful rewilders around the globe.
#WorldRewildingDay
#Rewilding
#HopeintoAction
#Innovation
#GenerationRestoration
2 – Social Media Toolkit
Download our specially prepared Social Media Toolkit for World Rewilding Day 2021, containing videos, posts, messaging, hashtags and other useful resources to help us spread the word that when the world comes together for rewilding, extraordinary transformations occur!
3 – Attend an event
There are lots of events taking place to celebrate World Rewilding Day 2024. Below is a list of just a few, but you can search online for other things happening in your part of the world.
Continent: Country: Organisation: Local Time Description: Details: Africa South Africa Ferncliffe 09:30 Ferncliffe forest wilding and Operation Songamanzi will celebrate World Rewilding Day with a morning’s tree-planting at Ferncliffe forest, Pietermaritzburg, on Saturday 23 March 2024. All are welcome! Find out more here Europe Italy Rewilding Apennines 09:00 Open event at Ortona dei Marsi for a walk together into the restored ecosystems (surprises are guaranteed!) from 9:00-12:30 CET on 20th March. A clean up will also be included, so bring gloves! Find out more here North Amercia Mexico Grupo Ecológico Sierra Girda IAP Holding an Earth Festival in the Sierra Gorda Biosphere Reserve in a rural community with schools and parents for a celebration of wildlife and community action to protect and restore our natural surroundings Find out more here South America Chile Rewilding Chile 17:00 Celebrating global rewilding day by telling the story behind the conservation strategy, and the context of the restoration of ecosystems at a large scale, and inclusion at the continental level. Speaking with Guillermo Spaj, the derictor of strategy at the Rewilding Chile Foundation and the Global Rewilding Alliance Find out more here Central America Costa Rica Osa Conservation Posting on all their social media, no specific event Find out more here Europe UK RSA Royal Society of Arts, Commerce and Manufactures: Circle takeover, Global Find out more here Europe Portugal Municipality of Cascais Various Program of events running in Cascais across 23rd and 24th March including a guided walk, nature yoga class and a sketch workshop. Find out more here Europe UK Climate Action North 10:00-13:00 Holding their community rewilding event at one of their projects – a 55 acre parkland and retail park in the North East of England Find out more here Europe UK Heal Rewilding Celebrate World Rewilding Day 2024 by sponsoring a Heal 3x3 square! For each £20 you donate (for yourself or as a gift), you are sponsoring a 3m by 3m square of rewilding land for a year - or you can donate £100 and sponsor a square for a lifetime. You will be sent the what3words address for your square(s) so you know the exact location on the Heal Somerset site. Find out more here Europe Sweden Young European Rewilders 17:30 Presenting Rewilding through two films Find out more here Europe UK The Conservation Collective Sri Lanka 14:30 Join us this World Rewilding Day for a Fireside Chat with The Stewards of Sri Lanka. Engage in a discussion of pioneering conservation initiatives between Director of Lanka Environment Fund, Vinod Malwatte, and chairperson of the organisation, Daisy Honeybunn. They will be joined by host, Ben Goldsmith, Founder of Conservation Collective, to spotlight and discuss how best to scale local rewilding initiatives working to protect the biodiversity of Sri Lanka’s flora and fauna and helping local communities to thrive. Find out more here Europe UK Scotland the Big Picture/Scottish Rewilding Alliance Various Various events including the release of the Why Not Scotland? film. You can host your own screening of the film. The accompanying Rewilding Nation campaign is also planned to feature a season of outreach work across the country as we explore how rewilding is tied up with Scotland's future. Find out more here Europe Rewilding Europe Various Various events including a film screening, school visits and guided walks. Find out more here Global WILD Foundation Voices of Wilderness episode. Celebrating World Rewilding Day, we're embarking on an exciting conversation between two passionate conservationists: Ben Goldsmith, an avid nature lover and dedicated advocate for rewilding, and Amy Lewis, WILD’s CEO! Find out more here
4 – New to rewilding?
Scroll down for a quick introduction to the practical solution that is helping to restore ecosystems and secure a thrioving future for all of us.
5 – Get on board
Join us on this journey of discovery in embracing hope and taking action to help nature’s resilient comeback, and celebrate the far-reaching and often unforeseen benefits that arise when we partner with nature!
AMAZING, ORDINARY, HOPEFUL PEOPLE ON EVERY CONTINENT,
ARE AT THE HEART OF THE REWILDING MOVEMENT
“When I am in the Lika Plains, I feel I have to say ‘yes’ to the world. I feel a great sense of beauty and freedom, all together.”
Says Marija Krnjajić, Team Leader at Rewilding Velebit.
Watch A New Path for the Velebit Mountains to meet these inspiring rewilders.
Bears are returning on their own! American Prairies celebrate the return of the grizzly bear – an iconic symbol of prairie wildness – to their rewilding project in a hopeful act of ‘passive rewilding’.
Another Day in the Office reveals the unique encounters of rewilders in the Peace Parks Foundation’s offices.
From elephants joining their team meetings, lizards co-piloting the airplane, to hitchhiking snakes! Don’t miss it!
“[Rewilding] offers people as well as nature itself lots of new possibilities”
Says Todor Todorov, Enterprise Officer at Rewilding Rhodopes.
Watch The Circle of Life in the Rhodope Mountains to see how nature’s return is transforming the lives of local people.
“We never imagined that they would return there.”
Giant Anteater found in Brazil for the first time in over 100 years following Rewilding Argentina’s rewilding efforts in Iberá.
FOLLOW WORLD REWILDING DAY:
#WorldRewildingDay
#Rewilding
#HopeintoAction
#Innovation
#GenerationRestoration
REWILDING PROVIDES PRACTICAL HOPE BASED ON REAL, POSITIVE ACTIONS HAPPENING NOW
In the Rewilding movement, hope is not some vague aspiration, it’s a plan of action.
Rewilders see the possibility of a better world for people by helping nature to rebound and thrive.
Rewilders are putting hope into action as they address the climate emergency, reversing biodiversity loss and converting widespread eco-anxiety into hope
SUPPORT REWILDING & REWILDERS WHEREVER YOU ARE
Rewilding hope isn’t abstract but takes root in the hands of the people – rewilders, local communities, indigenous peoples, businesses, and individuals.
Find your local organisation and connect with rewilders where you are.
ARE YOU A REWILDING ORGANISATION?
Become an alliance partner and get support from rewilders around the world
WE ARE INCREDIBLY GRATEFUL TO OUR CHAMPIONS FOR THEIR CORE SUPPORT FOR OUR WORK
BEN GOLDSMITH
ANDRÉ HOFFMANN
Photo by Marcelo Mascareno, Rewilding Chile
FOLLOW WORLD REWILDING DAY:
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#Rewilding
#HopeintoAction
#Innovation
#GenerationRestoration