Four cinereous vulture specimens (Aegypius monachus) have just been released in the Iberian Highlands, as part of the programme for the reintroduction of this endangered species.

Rewilding Spain has deployed a network of camera traps and transects in the Dehesa de Solanillos (Mazarete, Guadalajara) natural grazing area to analyse the status of this species, which is key prey for many Iberian carnivores and also a valuable ecosystem engineer.

Emmanuel Rondeau’s documentary produced by Rewilding Europe, which portrays the power of rewildingto recover nature and revitalise landscapes, has become a great success. Since its premiere last July, it got over 40,000 views on Youtube and is generating great interest in every event where it’s being screened.

Volunteering is a valuable way to join the rewilding movement and contribute in a practical and active way to nature recovery. In the Iberian Highlands, four young people coming from Spain, Belgium, Switzerland and Lithuania were the first to join Rewilding Spain’s newly launched Volunteer Programme this summer.

The Cuenca-based company gets a 100,000-euro loan from the Rewilding Europe Capital programme to produce technical structural timber solutions for buildings, using native black pine to promote bio-construction and sustainable forest management in the region.

Rewilding is transforming the outlook for communities and nature in the Iberian Highlands. ‘Breathing new life into the Iberian Highlands’, a new documentary by award-winning filmmaker Emmanuel Rondeau, which recently premiered in one of the landscape’s most beautiful al fresco settings, tells an intimate story of this transformation.

The European Wildlife Comeback Fund (EWCF) is an innovative funding mechanism by Rewilding Europe aimed at supporting the translocation of keystone species across Europe, also those ones that are already in the final stages.

After a year of work, next Thursday 11th July we will premiere the short documentary film “Breathing new life into the Iberian Highlands”, directed by the award-winning French filmmaker Emmanuel Rondeau, from White Fox Pictures, and which is part of a documentary series produced by Rewilding Europe.

Tragacete municipality and Rewilding Spain have partnered to organise this event, that will take place in June 21-23, also in collaboration with Cuenca Province and Castilla-La Mancha governments.

Rewilding Spain and La Balluca brewery partner to create a new beer that helps to spread the word on the role of natural grazing by Serrano horses in the Alto Tajo region.