Our Mission
We aim to become one of the most impactful accelerators of nature-based solutions in the world by 2026.
What rewilding means to us…
We define rewilding as the restoration of natural processes that determine outcomes in increasingly complete ecosystems.
While the ultimate goal of rewilding is often to re-establish self-sustaining native ecosystems with little or no human management, we recognise a range of practices and objectives that increase naturalness in managed systems (including forestry and agriculture).
The precise outcomes of rewilding are uncertain but forward-looking, in establishing healthy ecosystems that can cope with the expected impacts of climate change and support thriving communities by providing numerous benefits to local people.
Our vision for Highlands Rewilding sees a wild, rich mosaic of habitat, mostly native woodland, that is home for people and wildlife alike.
Ground-breaking research will improve land use and conservation for generations to come and help make natural capital accountancy watertight, and hence nature based solutions easily investable.
By doing this, we hope to inspire other landowners to create a network of increasingly carbon negative, flourishing and biodiverse land, in Scotland and beyond.
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Rewilding in Action
Woodland creation, peatland, rainforest and marine restoration, and maintenance of species-rich pastures. We manage land with biodiversity uplift and carbon sequestration as core aims, alongside repeopling.
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Natural Capital
We are implement the most innovative research and technologies to create Nature Based Solutions that work for nature, as well as monetisation for land management.
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Community Prosperity
We are helping tackle the inequality of land ownership, as well as employing a number of local people to implement our targets for rewilding the Highlands, providing rural green new jobs to communities.