The climate crisis and the accelerating loss of biodiversity make it increasingly urgent to restore ecosystems and recover natural processes at scale. Achieving this requires a combination of strong environmental foundations, a social focus, and financial models capable of sustaining these actions over time. Wilderway connects ecological restoration with private capital to generate returns through investment in nature. The model is already being implemented in Spain and Beatriz González de Suso explains how it works.

Rewilding Spain celebrates five years of pioneering work, leading a large-scale rewilding initiative in the Iberian Highlands and launching a new programme to support the rewilding of public and private estates.

In this article, lawyer Marco Bolognini, member of the Board of Trustees of Rewilding Spain and founding partner of MAIO Legal, shares his reflections on the landscape as an element that can show the best possible interaction of human beings with the natural environment, a valuable heritage that should be protected.

Helping nature heal can lead to prosperous local economies. Nature-based business networks are being developed in a growing number of Rewilding Europe’s landscapes, enabling businesses and communities to benefit from nature recovery in a sustainable way. This, in turn, is generating more support for rewilding.

Mara Zamora is the general manager at Rewilding Spain. Coinciding with the celebration of World Rewilding Day, we publish this article that highlights the link between the well-being of nature and that of human beings, as well as the role of rewilding as a vision that addresses fundamental challenges for people, based on their commitment to a wilder and more ecologically functional nature.

Ricardo Almazán is the general manager of La Maleza Wildlife Park, located in Sierra de Albarracín region. With the support of Rewilding Europe, his business committed in 2021 to making this area the first place in Spain to host a herd of tauros, the bovids that gather the features of the aurochs, the extinct wild cow. In this post Ricardo describes his experience with these awesome animals and how the effects of their presence in the landscape are already becoming visible.

José María Rey Benayas is Professor of Ecology at the University of Alcalá and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Fundación Española de Renaturalización – Rewilding Spain. With this article on the prospects for rewilding in Spain we launch our new blog section, where we will deal in more depth with different aspects related to our work and the Iberian Highlands rewilding initiative.