March 20th, 2026
Video credits: Rewilding Britain, illustrations by Jeroen Helmer
EVERY DAY:
WE CHOOSE OUR FUTURE
Choose life. Join rewilding. It works.
A positive future is already in the making.
In a time dominated by crisis, uncertainty and anxiety, a different, powerful narrative is emerging: we can create a hopeful future. Rewilding is one of the ways we get there.
Across the world, people of all walks of life turn rewilder. They restore ecosystems and bring back life and beauty to the places we love and rely on to stay healthy. These real, measurable changes are already shaping our future that is thriving, diverse, and resilient.
Every year on March 20, the solar equinox, we come together to celebrate World Rewilding Day.
A global moment to recognise the growing rewilding movement and the future we are actively creating.
This year is about choice
A positive future is not something we wait for: it is something we choose, and something we are already building.
Join Rewilding on March 20th.
#ChooseOurFuture
We’ve been to the future. Nature thrives.
Credits: Mossy Earth, Rebuilding Thriving Coral Reefs in Nusa Penida, Indonesia
Mark your calendar:
March 20th, 2026 is World Rewilding Day!
World Rewilding Day is a key moment to demonstrate the global presence, relevance, and momentum of the rewilding movement, showing the world what rewilding looks like in action.
By taking part, as an organisation or a citizen, you contribute to a powerful, unified narrative: one where hope is grounded in evidence, and a thriving future is already being built.
When we show up together, our impact is amplified,
and our movement becomes impossible to ignore.
Follow World Rewilding Day
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This is the future we are actively choosing
Rewilding organisations and citizens alike are already contributing to our thriving wild future.
Credits: Island Conservation
Turn on sound to hear the full effect!
Just one year after Sooty Terns’ nesting sites were cleared of invasive species by our partner Island Conservation on this atoll in the Republic of the Marshall Islands, life is buzzing again! Nature rebounds if we allow her to, often faster than we imagine.
Credits: Affric Highlands
In March 2025, Rewilding Britain reported an average increase in jobs of 124% across 65 different rewilding sites in England and Wales since rewilding started.
Rapa Nui is rekindling their ancient connection with marine life thanks to a 720,000 sq.km of Marine Protected Area, witnessing the largest whale sightings in living memory!
Credits: Marcus Westberg / Rewilding Europe
Where semi-wild Sorraia horses graze in Portugal’s Greater Côa Valley rewilding landscape, the spread of a recent wildfire was slowed.
Within a year of de-damming the Klamath river, salmon restored their old migrations for the first time in 100 years.
Credits: Rewilding Chile
Rewilding Chile is restoring the iconic guanaco. With space to roam across the Route of Parks of Patagonia, covering one third of the country and over 90% of its protected land, the network has become a key refuge for hundreds of species.
Credits: Gorongosa Restoration Project
Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique is transforming from a silent post-war landscape into a biodiverse haven, supporting life in all forms, including coexisting human communities.
Credits: Kira Simpson / Rewilding Magazine
An Australian homeowner chose to garden with nature, not against it, transforming a pesticide-laden yard into a vibrant haven that supports biodiversity. Within weeks of planting, more insects, birds, and signs of life began to flourish, reconnecting people daily with the natural world.
Credits: Global Rewilding Alliance
SUGi is reimagining urban areas by planting biodiversity-dense pocket forests; across 62 cities, they have impacted over 90,000 youth & children, reducing extreme temperatures, increasing wellbeing & creating hubs for wildlife (all research-backed claims!).
Creating pocket forests is also about being together and sharing a good time.
Nicolas de Braband̬re РForest maker at SUGi
Choose our future
There is a positive future emerging. It becomes reality when we choose it.
Join rewilding
Rewilding is an essential part of the emerging future. It is a dynamically evolving movement to let nature recover and thrive.
rewilding works
Our vision is positive & realistic. Evidence shows Nature comes back quicker than we imagine if we allow it.
Are you a Rewilding Organisation?
How to take part.
Invite your community to reflect on the future we are choosing and how rewilding is actively shaping it.
- Tell us about the future you choose: Share statements, testimonials, or short soundbites – the voices of the people experiencing nature’s return on the ground. Imaginations of a thriving future grounded in what we are doing today.
- Show the future you are already building: Photos, videos, illustrations, maps, or before-and-after visuals help make change tangible. A single powerful image can transport people into the future you are creating.
- Say it from the heart: Songs, poems, artwork, performances… Rewilding is not only ecological work, it is a human movement, rich in emotion, creativity, and culture.
#WorldRewildingDay #ChooseOurFuture #WorldRewildingDay2026
| Continent: | Country: | Organisation: | Local Time | Description: | Details: |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Europe | Scotland | Scottish Rewilding Alliance | 20th March 18:00 (GMT) | Hope for Nature Hustings - Ahead of the May 2026 elections we're bringing hundreds of people together in Perthshire for a rewilding hustings - where people can challenge politicians for answers and actions | Find out more here |
| Africa | South Africa | Keystones Expedition | TBC | Screening of Corridors - Through authentic storytelling and documentaries, Keystones Expedition reveals the connections between people, wildlife, and ecosystems, showing why biodiversity is essential for the survival of all life on Earth and the importance of supporting corridors conservation in Africa. | TBC |
| Europe | Scotland | Trees for Life | 20th March Slots: 11:30-12:00 or 13:30-14:00 or 15:00-15:30 (GMT +0) | Dundreggan Taster Tour - A taster rewilding walk! In celebration of World Rewilding Day, we are inviting people for a complimentary tour of the world’s first rewilding centre. Join one of our guides for a short guided walk for an introduction to Trees for Life’s many projects – not least Dundreggan, our flagship rewilding estate in the Scottish Highlands. | Find out more here |
| Europe | Netherlands | ARK Rewilding NL, NIOO-KNAW and Wageningen University | 20th March 9:00 - 17:00 (CET) | Symposium Evidence-based Rewilding - What evidence shows that rewilding actually works? During this event, national and international speakers from science and practice explore how to build robust evidence for rewilding and demonstrate its impact. The symposium also marks the launch of the Rewilding Expertise Centre by NIOO researcher and special Wageningen University professor Liesbeth Bakker on World Rewilding Day! | Find out more here |
| Europe | Italy | Rewilding Apennines | 20th March 17:00 (CET) | Book Presentation & Talk - Wild Tales - Presentation of the book born from our international writing competition. | Find out more here |
| Europe | Italy | Rewilding Apennines | 20th March 17:00 (CET) | Crackdown - YouTube release of a short film Rewilding Apennines realised about wildlife poisoning. | Find out more here |
| Europe | Italy | Rewilding Apennines | 20th March 19:00 (CET) | Screening & Talk: The Central Apennines - A Story of Coexistence - A journey into the heart of the Apennines — between nature and local communities. | Find out more here |
| Europe | Portugal / Spain | Sylvester Rewilding | 21st March 10:30 (WET) | O Contributo dos Cavalos Sorraia no Parque Natural - The event is about the role of wild horses in Rewilding. Its a walk around Quinta do Pisão who uses the herbivores as part of their rewilding strategy. Participants learn about the role of the wild horses in the landscape and can see it first hand at the Quinta. | Find out more here |
| Africa | South Africa | Ferncliffe Forest Wilding | 22nd March 9:00-11:30 (SAST) | From Farm to Forest - Over 85 people donated R3,600,000/$214,788 to Ferncliffe forest wilding so that we could stop a derelict farm being turned into a housing estate. The farm is connected to Ferncliffe Forest, South Africa, which we are restoring and rewilding. We are celebrating World Rewilding Day 2026 by planting the first of many native trees on the farm. Wild animals already frequent this piece of land, and we are excited to see how rewilding it will invigorate the biodiversity. Local volunteers are invited to plant the native trees with us, to get the ball rolling. RSVP | |
| South America | Brazil | Instituto Felinos do Aguaà | TBC | Rewilding Day – Choose Our Future is an educational and community event that connects science, nature, art, and civic participation. The initiative highlights how ecosystem restoration and environmental education are interconnected processes shaping the future. The event combines a creative science fair, educational exhibition, and symbolic community action. Students present projects, artistic expressions, and environmental solutions related to biodiversity, water protection, and ecosystem restoration. The initiative is led by Instituto Felinos do AguaÃ, guided by its principle 'Researching to Educate', demonstrating how field research, native seedling production, forest restoration, and protection of water sources contribute to biodiversity conservation and environmental awareness. | |
| Europe | Bulgaria | Rewilding Rhodopes | 21st March10.00-13.00 EET | Marking of World Rewilding Day with Rewilding Rhodopes team in Rhodope Mountains. | |
| Europe | Romania | Rewilding Romania | March (already happened) | Growing with Nature: Children Celebrate World Rewilding Day in Èšarcu Mountains. Educational workshops in four schools in ArmeniÈ™, Teregova and Cornereva - the bison reintroduction area - engaging around 200 children in creative activities inspired by the wildlife and plants of the Èšarcu Mountains. Using locally crafted wooden martisoare made from linden wood by a local workshop, the children learn about key species such as the bison and other wild animals, birds and plants that shape the local ecosystems. The workshops connected the traditional Romanian celebration of Martisor with the values of rewilding and respect for nature. | |
| Europe | Romania | Rewilding Romania | 22nd MarchTBC | Flowing Free: A New Era for Our Rivers, a special presentation of the Open Rivers Programme in the South-Western Carpathians. Join our team in the field to see how we are bringing life back to our rivers and how we actively choose our future. | Find out more here |
| North America | USA | NorthEast Wilderness Trust | Ongoing | Campaign for a Wild Future: 90% towards raising 18 million US dollars to secure, protect and rewild 160,000 acres of forever-wild land. | Find out more here |
| Europe | UK | People’s Park for Nature | 19th March5pm - 10pm GMT | Unveiling England's first Rewilding Visitor Centre — celebrating a wilder Lower Ouse Valley, from land to sea. Open for just one day - 19th March - as people gather to co-create the wilder future we hope to bring to life and celebrate World Rewilding Day. | Find out more here |
| Europe | Ukraine | Rewilding Europe | 20th MarchTBB | Online premiere of The Healing Power of Nature. Join us for the online screening of the sixth film in the Wilder Europe series: ‘The healing power of nature’. The film tells the hopeful story of the Danube Delta in Ukraine, where rewilding is shaping a more hopeful future even in these challenging times. | Find out more here |
| Europe | UK | Climate Action North | 5th June9:30 am to 4:30 pm GMT | "Rewilding Communities - Hope for the Future" - on World Environment Day and we will be highlighting the importance of Rewilding Communities a way to plug the gaps in connectivity around the world! | Find out more here |
| Europe | Poland | Rewilidng Pomerania | 20th March18h CET | Po co nam dzikie rzeki? (Why do we need wild rivers?) - Z okazji Światowego Dnia Rewildingu zapraszamy na webinar, podczas którego przeniesiemy globalne idee na nasze polskie podwórko. Pokażemy, że przywracanie rzekom przestrzeni i dobrego stanu to nie tylko dbanie o przyrodę, ale przede wszystkim inwestycja w nasze wspólne bezpieczeństwo. (To mark World Rewilding Day, we invite you to a webinar where we’ll apply global ideas to our own backyard here in Poland. We’ll show that restoring rivers to their natural state and health isn’t just about caring for nature, but above all an investment in our shared safety.) | Find out more here |
| Global | Global | *Nature | March-October | Calls for contributions to a special collection in Nature as follows: Managing landscapes after land abandonment: afforestation, rewilding and restoration. | Find out more here |
| Europe | Netherlands | ARK Rewilding NL | 20th March | Klapstoelactie: The #foldingchairphotochallenge for and by Young Rewilders. The Young Rewilders team from ARK and the Young Rewilders communications working group from the Young Rewilders Network invite all Young Rewilders to make a rewilding statement on March 20: In the run-up to World Rewilding Day on March 20, take a photo of yourself sitting on a folding chair in a place where you think the area could use a bit more wilderness. A place in the Netherlands where, in your opinion, nature and natural processes should be given more room to thrive. Support for more (wild) nature is much greater than many people realize. Together, we’ll make that clear in the run-up to and on World Rewilding Day itself. There are many of us! Share this photo on March 20 and tag ARK Rewilding Nederland on the socials. We’ll repost your photos and statements. Use these hashtags: #meerruimtevoorwildenatuur #chooseourfuture #rewilding #worldrewildingday2026 | |
| Europe | Ukraine | Rewilding Ukraine | 20th March | Film screening for the Borodino community in Odesa region. A film from the Wilder Europe series — "The Healing Power of Nature" | |
| Europe | Italy | Collettivo Rewild Sicily | 20th March 16:00 CET | Sicily: A laboratory of environmental restoration: Sicily is a living open-air laboratory: extraordinary biodiversity, yet increasingly threatened by wildfires, drought, and habitat fragmentation. Here, rewilding is not just an ecological choice — it is a concrete response to climate change. Invited by the prestigious Sicilian Society of Natural Sciences we share our experiences in rewilding, reforestation, agroecosystems, and community engagement — all part of our mission to bring life back to a wilder, greener Sicily. Also presenting is Fondazione Pro Biodiversità , whose project successfully restored 480 hectares of wetlands and lagoons in south-eastern Sicily — ecosystems that, during the recent Cyclone Harry, shielded the surrounding territory without a single block of concrete. Two different experiences. One shared goal: proving that when you give nature space, it knows how to heal itself. The event will be hosted by the Museum Gemmallaro in Palermo, Corso Tukory 131, Palermo. | |
| South America | Brazil, Parque do Córrego Grande | Instituto Fauna Brasil | 20th March All day | Rewilding Day at Our Environmental Education Center: This event celebrates the Global Rewilding Day by opening our Environmental Education Base to the public and showing how nature recovery happens in practice. Visitors experience a guided, interactive exhibition inside a container, where they learn about threats to wildlife, the rescue and rehabilitation process, and our reintroduction and monitoring projects—key actions that contribute to rewilding. The event also highlights environmental education and community-based income initiatives, reinforcing the role people play in restoring ecosystems. At the end, participants receive educational materials and are invited to engage through citizen science, social media, and supporting conservation efforts. | |
| Europe | UK | Climate Action North | 5th June 9:30 to 16:30 GMT | Rewilding Communities - Hope for the Future: Building on World Rewilding Day and the theme #ChooseOurFuture we choose to rewild communities and so we will be bringing together communities to learn about community rewilding and how to make a better wilder future for all. Rewilding Communities is hosted by the North East Rewilding Network and is an event with inspiring speakers from the rewilding and community rewilding sector, also exhibitors and rewilding projects as well as areas and time set aside to take part in "Wild Hacks" for solutions based approaches to rewilding communities, and also a "Wild Pledge" wall. The event on 5th June will also be celebrating World Environment Day, a day to accelerate Climate Action - and we choose Rewilding to do this. | Find out more here |
Private Screening ‘The Rewilders’ for Global Rewilding Alliance Partners
On World Rewilding Day, partners of the Global Rewilding Alliance are invited to a private screening of The Rewilders — a powerful film capturing the people, places, and passion driving the rewilding movement around the world.
This special gathering offers a moment to pause, connect, and celebrate together the future we are choosing. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion, bringing voices from the movement together to share insights, experiences, and perspectives.
More information, including timing and access details, will be shared directly with partners by email.
THE FUTURE WE CHOOSE
A hopeful, rewilded future takes shape through the choices we make and the actions we take, together. Rewilding grows in the hands of people — local communities, Indigenous Peoples, practitioners, businesses, and individuals — all contributing to restoring life.
It often begins with a simple question: How can I help?
Find your local organisation and connect with rewilders to get involved.
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Turns out, rewilding works best when enjoyed with great company, food, drinks, and even a little party.
Sylvester Rewilding, Spain
Credits: Sylvester Rewilding – Community coming together to rewild a Eucalyptus plantation in Galicia, Spain
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#REWILDINGTOGETHER
Credits: Harding-Lee Media
World Rewilding Day – March 20th, 2026
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