The 22 participants in the Volunteer Programme contributed to ecosystems restoration, deepened on the natural heritage of the landscape and became ambassadors of the Iberian Highlands. And more than 80 applications have been received to join the programme in 2025 season, to start next February.
The Rewilding Educa education programme combined field visits and in-class activities about the role of tauros and other large herbivores in ecosystem restoration. After a successful first edition in Alto Tajo and Sierra de Albarracín areas, a new programme will be implemented in 2025 and will also reach schools in the Serranía de Cuenca region.
Rewilding Spain is organising this contest with the aim of disseminating the natural and cultural values of the Iberian Highlands landscape, thus encouraging nature lovers to visit and discover the unique beauty of the region during the cold season.
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.