Celebrating World Rewilding Day
Today, on World Rewilding Day, join us in sharing and celebrating the stories of nature’s resilient comeback and the inspiring people at the heart of transforming hope into action.
Rewilding provides practical hope based on real, positive actions happening now on every continent.
Below, we are thrilled to share some exciting news about a specific rewilding action Highlands Rewilding are undertaking at one of our sites.
But first, a short video from Highlands Rewilding’s Founder and CEO on why we are rewilding and how rewilding actions can transform hope into action for our future. In particular, this video traces Dr Jeremy Leggett’s remarkable journey from the fossil fuel industry to nature recovery in Scotland via the solar energy revolution.
Financing on the Wild Side: Sustainability Inspires Podcast
Jeremy also recently joined the Sustainability Inspires Podcast from Abrdn to discuss how we aim to achieve our nature recovery and community prosperity mission and how the financial services industry can help take rewilding to scale.
You can listen wherever you get your podcasts: On Spotify, Apple, or Google.
“We have to engineer the system change in nature-based economies, it's as far-reaching as that. So, a value has to be placed on nature.
Everything we do has to consider it, has to consider nature and rebuild what is essentially, as things stand, a dying planetary system. It's huge. And that's where, if we can't finance that, then we're not going to have a viable future to do any financing in.”
Dr Jeremy Leggett, extract from Sustainability Inspires Podcast.
Though we face many challenges as a society, from biodiversity loss to rising global temperatures and declining opportunities for rural economies, rewilding, taken to scale, can help address these challenges simultaneously.
You can find out more about the science that drives our rewilding approach in our Natural Capital Reports.
So, what are we so excited about?
Next month, we hope to reintroduce a key ecosystem engineer to our Bunloit site in Inverness-shire!
Rewilding aims to restore natural processes, allowing them to determine outcomes in increasingly complete ecosystems. A range of practices and objectives can increase naturalness in managed systems, including forestry and agriculture, and, where appropriate, restore missing species and allow them to shape the landscape and habitats therein.
The precise outcomes of rewilding are uncertain but forward-looking. They involve establishing healthy ecosystems that can cope with the expected impacts of climate change and support thriving communities by providing numerous benefits to local people, such as local food production and clean water.
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