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.

Rewilding Spain signs the first agreement to preserve an old-growth forest in the Serranía Alta de Cuenca region, which will allow the recovery of ecological processes and also provide income to the municipality thanks to future carbon sequestration rights trading.

Only one year and a half after public kick-off, the Iberian Highlands rewilding initiative is working on the forest restoration and wildfires prevention over 11,000 hectares of land, has created 15 jobs and has allocated more than 200,000 euros to fund local business initiatives in the landscape.

Taking place on March 20 with the theme #HopeintoAction, this year’s World Rewilding Day will celebrate rewilding and showcase its real-world impact. Let’s rewild now for nature, climate and people.