This year, rewilders across the world are choosing our future
We know that rewilding is creating jobs, reducing flooding, and allowing wildlife and ecosystems to flourish. The nature-positive, hopeful future we are building is shaped by the choices our team are making on the ground, below the waves, across pastures and in our woodlands. Your support helps us to record and restore the nature around us and our team have sent us short insights into some of the work we are currently carrying out across our rewilding sites.
In the aftermath of severe winter storms, our lead marine biologist David Smyth examines the salt marsh on the Tayvallich estate. Our Tayvallich farm manager Erik Riddell explains how we use remote cow collars to manage the herd in a way that helps rewilding. Alex Davies, estate manager at Bunloit, takes us on a volunteer day of tree planting and bird surveys, and finally, Bunloit's chief ranger Daniel Holm takes us on a browsing survey.
Together, these stories are part of something much bigger. Around the world, from rivers in California where salmon have already returned after dams came down, to national parks in Mozambique where wildlife is flourishing again after decades of conflict, the evidence is clear: when we give nature the chance, it comes back. Often faster than we ever imagined.
Rewilding – a global movement
A positive future is already in the making.
To watch more rewilding films from projects around the world, head to Global Rewilding Alliance’s website.
We can create a hopeful future.
In a time dominated by crisis, uncertainty and anxiety, a different, powerful narrative is emerging: 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.
A volunteer at one of the fortnightly Nature Days in Bunloit
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.
What difference does rewilding actually make?
A recent ecological survey of our Northwoods Rewilding Network compared rewilded landscapes with neighbouring non-rewilded land - and the contrast is remarkable.
Across the rewilded sites, researchers recorded:
🐦 261% more bird species
🌳 546% more bird breeding territories
🐝 2x times more bumblebee and butterfly species
🦋 10x times the number of pollinating insects
🌼 250% more nectar-rich plants
This is among the strongest evidence so far that rewilding is accelerating significant.