Cartier for Nature is a philanthropic initiative created by the Maison Cartier to support the conservation and restoration of natural ecosystems and biodiversity. Its mission is to help conserve and restore biodiversity and healthy ecosystems for the benefit of nature and people.
Over 150 people living in the small villages located nearby Mazarete and Villanueva de Alcorón rewilding areas have visited the Serrano horses, tauros and Przewalski’s horses herds and got to know the relevant role these large herbivores are playing for the ecosystem restoration.
La Maleza Wildlife Park, located in Tramacastilla (Teruel), has become the first Spanish nature-based company to receive financial support from the Rewilding Europe Capital (REC) fund.
The Cinereous vulture (Aegypius monachus) is the largest scavenger bird inhabiting Spain and its imposing silhouette was common in the Iberian Highlands until a century ago, when the last resident colonies disappeared as the forest masses in the territory also diminished.
Natural grazing in the Dehesa de Solanillos woodland is no longer just for horses. A herd of ten tauros has just been released in this area of the Upper Tagus (Alto Tajo), located in the village of Mazarete (Guadalajara province), which was devastated by a major wildfire in 2005. Here, these large herbivores will fulfil an important ecological function, contributing to the regeneration of the forest and increasing biodiversity.
Wildfires are part of the natural disturbances that occur in the environment, although their recurrence is a complex problem that is worsening day by day in Spain with climate change: fires are becoming more intense and have unprecedented ecological and social consequences.
Rewilding Spain is searching for a new Forest Officer who will join the team already working in the Iberian Highlands rewilding initiative. The Forest Officer will play a fundamental role in the development, establishment and implementation of the management and conservation programme of forest resources in the Iberian Highlands landscape, and will be responsible for … Continued
This nature observation fair will take place in June, 9-11 at Corduente village.
Rewilding Spain Foundation is starting out a new stage after the renewal of its Board of Trustees for the next three years and the incorporation of the biologist and disseminator Odile Rodríguez de la Fuente. For the new period, main goals are the consolidation of the Iberian Highlands pioneering rewilding initiative and extending the rewilding approach other areas in Spain.
The Board of Trustees of Rewilding Spain has renewed its positions for the next three years, during which the foundation will focus on consolidating the work already begun within the framework of the Iberian Highlands initiative and also on exploring new rewilding opportunities in other areas of Spain.