Rewilding Britain

Our Rewilding Challenge Fund is now open! If you’re part of a large-scale, ambitious rewilding project here in Britain, you could be awarded £100,000 to help you meet your bold ambitions to let nature lead, help people prosper, and move up the rewilding spectrum – to Think Big, Act Wild. The fund is open to land owners, land managers, communities and partnerships. Apply to follow in the footsteps of: 🦭 2023 recipient Sussex Bay who are rewilding at the seascape scale and setting up a new innovative blue carbon lab 🦬 2022 recipient Wilder Blean who are scaling up rewilding in Kent working in partnership to allow herbivores to move across the landscape Find out more about the fund via the link in comments. Applications close 11 October. Image:  Belinda Greb / Wildscreen

Rewilding offers hope.  It can help us transition to a nature rich, low carbon future while delivering real, locally generated benefits. It’s an opportunity to give nature (and ourselves) a chance. Help show MPs that you support rewilding for a wilder future by using our digital tool to contact them (🔗 Link in comments) #ThinkBigActWild

We’re thrilled to be a charity partner for this year’s Blue Earth Summit in London. Our CEO Rebecca Wrigley will be joining a panel debate chaired by Ben Goldsmith  alongside leading rewilders, market builders and business leaders Helen Avery, Angela Williams of The Langholm Initiative, and Archie Struthers to discuss how to drive high-integrity investment into large scale rewilding. We’ll also be exhibiting at the conference, joining 7,000 trailblazers, including Startup Founders, Impact Investors, Executives, Charities, Politicians, Adventurers, Innovators, Corporates, Philanthropists, and Activists, to shape a sustainable future and spread our vision of rewilding. Watch this space for further details on what we’ve got planned 👀 Get your discount ticket today, using code REWILDING25 for 25% off (🔗 Link in comments) We’ll see you there…

To achieve 30% rewilding, we need to think differently about land use. Our Rewilding Manager Sara King visited Forestry and Land Scotland last week alongside the Forestry England Wild Kielder area project manager to hear about their plans for nature recovery at their Glen Prosen site. This upland landscape is a mixture of commercial forestry, peatland and moorland, and there are exciting plans afoot to put nature recovery at the heart of the future vision for the area, with huge potential for people to live and work on the land. To find out more about Sara and the team's work, visit our Rewilding Network page on the website (🔗 link in comments).  📷: Sara King / Rewilding Britain

September is here and as MPs prepare to return to Parliament once again, now is a crucial time to get nature recovery firmly back on their agenda. In a world wrecked by biodiversity loss, habitat destruction and climate breakdown, rewilding can replenish nature’s remarkable web of life — restoring habitats, natural processes, and the diversity and abundance of native species. Want to give them a wild welcome? Send them a copy of our Rewilding Manifesto via email and we've even drafted an email for you so it barely takes a minute (🔗 Link in comments).

Your August #rewildingwins are here 🌳 1. The Missing Lynx Exhibition organised by @missing-lynx-project was a great success, educating 8,413 visitors across ten venues about the lynx's historical presence and ecological importance in Britain. 2. The EU’s new #NatureRestorationLaw is now in effect, requiring the restoration of 20% of European land and sea by 2030. This legislation will boost biodiversity and build resilience against climate change. Rewilding could help Britain reach a similar target. 3. Glow-worms light up Cornwall – 50 captive-bred glow-worms are being reintroduced to the Lost Gardens of Heligan by Rewilding Coombeshead, boosting local populations and introducing them to a different part of the Estate. 4. England celebrated a rare triumph as two white-tailed eagle chicks fledged successfully for only the second time in over 240 years. This marks a significant milestone in their reintroduction journey. 4. Scotland is taking a bold step to protect its marine life with a public consultation that could ban bottom-trawl fishing in 20 marine protected areas. Share these positive news stories and follow us for your monthly dose of #rewildinghope. Images: [1] grafxart8888 / iStock [2] Mark Hamblin / scotlandbigpicture.com, [3] Paul Harris/2020VISION, [4] Knepp Wildland, [5] Mark Hamblin/scotlandbigpicture.com, [6] Seawilding #rewilding #rewildingbritain

Rewilding Britain job alert 🔈 Do you want to directly contribute to the growth of the rewilding movement across Britain? We’re seeking an experienced, self-motivated Rewilding Landscapes Manager to lead our work to upscale rewilding across Britain (£40-48k per annum, depending upon relevant experience). The successful candidate will be an innovative, driven and forward-thinking individual with a proven track record of influencing and advising landowners, land managers and wider stakeholders.  Find out more and apply by Friday 4 October via the link in our comments. #rewildingjobs #naturejobs Image: © Iain Leach

We have space for both nature and farming in Britain 🌱🚜 "Without healthy soils, pollinators, a stable climate, reliable water supply and resilient landscapes, our food systems cannot be sustained." Various studies, including the UK Government commissioned National Food Strategy, show how we can deliver our 30% nature recovery commitments without touching productive farmland or impacting on overall food production. Read more on how the UK Government can support farmers to rewild and boost food security in our CEO Rebecca Wrigley's blog ⬇️ along with 4 other key ways rewilding can address their BIG priorities. https://lnkd.in/gfQ7_f3H  Let's think big and support farms and nature! Sign our petition to support the Rewilding Manifesto via the link in our comments. Image credits: L-R Bumblebee:  Ceres Wan Kam / Wildscreen Pigs and farmer: Sam Rose Highland Cattle: Mark Hamblin / scotlandbigpicture.com Earthworms in soil:  Nikolay Antonov / Shutterstock

We're celebrating 10 years of small-scale rewilding at Underhill Wood Nature Reserve this month 🎉 This #RewildingNetwork member's commitment to restoring nature has led to an extraordinary transformation on their land near Salisbury. #rewildingwins from their first decade include: - Almost doubling the number of butterfly species to 19 - Doubling invertebrate diversity in just four years, thanks to hedgelaying, which has also created essential winter refuges for birds - 30 barn owlets fledged over the past eight years - Young people connecting with and caring for nature at the reserve through education programmes Learn more about their achievements in their latest blog post – or watch the recording of our small-scale rewilding webinar with Underhill Wood Nature Reserve, originally delivered to members of the Rewilding Network [🔗 link in comments]. Image: Underhill Wood #RewildingBritain #Rewilding #ThinkBigActWild

We're proud to sign Oceana UK's open letter, together with an alliance of 18 other environmental groups, urging Ed Miliband to withdraw the previous government's approval of new oil and gas licences – a ⚠️ third ⚠️ of which are within Marine Protected Areas, despite the harm they cause. Now is the moment for the UK to lead the way in #rewilding our oceans 🌊 https://lnkd.in/eti_wmwK