Dave Foreman – Remembering a Father Tree The wilderness community and the global rewilding movement pay tribute to a founding father. In his three-quarters of a century, Dave Foreman changed and expanded the way we do conservation in North America and inspired conservation activists and biologists to think big, wild, and connected throughout the world. John Davis and Dave Foreman, Patagonia, circa 2000 Since Dave Foreman’s death from interstitial lung disease on September 19, the last group he founded, The Rewilding Institute, has been flooded by fond remembrances and glowing tributes to h ..read more

Rewilding the American West Vance Martin, president of WILD, responds to Rewilding the American West, a recently published article by BioScience. This article speaks to President Biden’s America The Beautiful Plan which aims to conserve 30% of US land and water by 2030. The authors take this plan one step further by proposing large scale rewilding of these protected areas through reducing livestock grazing allotments and the strategic reintroduction of gray wolves and beavers. Read on for Vance’s take on why rewilding must be a central component of protecting America’s west. Rewilding in the ..read more

The Right To A Healthy Planet Finally Endorsed By UN In a historic vote on July 28, the United Nations General Assembly endorsed the universal human right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment. 50 years in the making, since the 1972 UN Conference on the Environment in Stockholm, this is a breakthrough which will shape policy, legislation and the future behavior of governments and businesses in a positive direction. The text, originally presented by Costa Rica, the Maldives, Morocco, Slovenia, and Switzerland, and now co-sponsored by over 150 countries, notes that the right to a hea ..read more

Help Rewilding In Ukraine As war descends on Ukraine, it also sweeps across the wetlands of the Danube River Delta that Ukrainian conservationists have worked so hard to protect and rewild. Though many of us feel helpless in the face of the Russian onslaught, there is something you can do to help Ukrainian conservation. Over the past five years, the Rewilding Europe team has labored to rewild the Danube River Delta and restore ecological integrity to Ukraine’s culturally and biologically significant landscapes. Picture from Rewilding Europe, Laurien Holtjer, Deli Saavedra Initiated in 2017 ..read more

Tom Lovejoy, you will be dearly missed… By Vance G. Martin President, WILD Foundation Sitting across from me at the dinner table in an elegant farmhouse in Northern Virginia was a smiling, youngish-looking man some 8-10 years my senior, with a bright bowtie.  It was 1984 and Ian Player – WILDs founder and legendary conservationist – had just arrived from Africa to join me in the earliest stages of organizing the 4th World Wilderness Congress (Colorado, 1987). A member of our board had arranged a dinner party so that Ian and Tom Lovejoy could meet each other for the first time.  I ..read more

BBC Radio 5 interview on Animating the Carbon Cycle BBC Radio 5 News interview with Oswald Schmidt on Animating the Carbon Cycle At COP26, BBC Radio 5 News interviews Oswald Schmitz, Oastler Professor of Population and Community Ecology in the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies at Yale University and contributor to Animate the Carbon Cycle: Supercharging ecosystem carbon sinks to meet the 1.5 degrees C target, on rewilding. Listen to Schmitz describe the benefit of biodiversity on the environment and climate starting at minute 3 below! Courtesy of BBC Radio 5 News and Oswald Schmit ..read more

Animate the Carbon Cycle Supercharging Ecosystem Carbon Sinks to Meet the 1.5 degree C Target. Animate Carbon Cycle release 2 November finalThe Global Rewilding Alliance (GRA) is facilitating a high-level group of 60 scientists, economists, and civil society organizations  to launch an initiative that, by 2023, will demonstrate the direct impact of nature solutions on solving the climate emergency. Read the full press release here. “Animate the Carbon Cycle: Supercharging ecosystem carbon sinks to meet the 1.5 degrees C target” is a collaborative research and demonstration project that ..read more

Ecosulis launches UK’s first rewilding internship programme The pioneering graduate internship programme, which kicked off on the first ever World Rewilding Day, will allow young people to begin their rewilding career and shape the emerging profession. An investment in youth UK-based ecological consultancy Ecosulis has launched the UK’s first rewilding graduate internship programme. A founder member of the Global Rewilding Alliance, Ecosulis has dedicated itself to nature recovery for many years and is committed to driving the rewilding movement forwards. The launch coincided with the first ..read more

Cheetahs return to Mozambique’s Maputo Special Reserve Via Global Rewilding Alliance member, Peace Parks Foundation: Cheetahs will soon grace the wildlife-rich plains of Maputo Special Reserve in southern Mozambique for the first time since the 1960s, as four of the threatened big cats have been transported safely to holding bomas within the reserve. Here they will acclimatize for a few weeks, before being released into the 104 200ha reserve. The reserve is managed through a partnership agreement between Mozambique’s National Administration for Conservation Areas (ANAC) and Global Rewildin ..read more

Two Global Rewilding Alliance members work together to restore the Scottish Highlands Affric Highlands initiative to restore nature will work with local communities in new ways connecting wildlife habitats and building a nature-based economy. After three years of conversations between local communities and Trees for Life, a local charity and member of the Global Rewilding Alliance, a vast area of the Scottish Highlands stretching between the west coast and Loch Ness is to be rewilded as part of a 30-year project to restore nature. The Affric Highlands initiative aims to increase connected ..read more