What is rewilding?
Rewilding is an innovative approach to nature conservation and ecological restoration that can contribute significantly to rural development by building healthier and more diverse landscapes with richer biodiversity.
Staffan Widstrand / Rewilding Europe
Rewilding aims to ensure that natural processes and wild species play a more prominent role in our protected areas. It promotes that, after initial support, ecosystems can become self-reliant within socially acceptable limits.
Rewilding fosters nature-based solutions to some of the most pressing problems of our time, such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and rural abandonment. Wilder landscapes provide opportunities for modern societies to reconnect with our environment in a healthy way, and for local communities to promote development based on their endogenous resources.
To better understand what we are talking about…
Rewilding implies a new appreciation of more natural landscapes, connecting the ecological integrity or health of ecosystems with the health of people and society as a whole.
Rewilding is applicable to all types of terrestrial or marine ecosystems at large or small scales.
Even in Spain’s most protected areas, many species or natural processes that play a key ecological role are missing.
Creative and innovative thinking is needed, complementing traditional approaches to nature conservation and rural development.
People are the key: rewilding puts people and their social and economic links with the land at the center by promoting vibrant and more complete ecosystems.
The time has come to incorporate nature-based solutions that are more efficient and beneficial to the environment.
Rewilding is future-oriented. It is inspired by the past to design a more enriching, social and natural present that projects us into a future that is open to new results.
In the face of socio-environmental disasters, rewilding brings an exciting perspective of hope thanks to the improvement of our ecosystems and the benefits brought to people.
We collaborate with multiple stakeholders to promote wilder landscapes that generate both healthier ecosystems and socioeconomic prosperity for rural communities. We believe in rewilding as an option for land conservation and management and in the interdependent relationship between the health of wild nature and that of people.
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Europe is changing
Recently Europe is witnessing a new movement in favor of the restoration of ecosystems and the need to connect Europeans with nature and wildlife. We are facing a historic moment for the conservation of nature and support for an innovative rural economy based on the improvement of our natural spaces.
European policy is changing towards a more positive attitude towards nature, wildlife and forests. We want to be part of this movement that is developing a new approach to conservation in Europe and that, in turn, opens up new opportunities and challenges for nature and people.