A prominent conservation expert says government plans to restore up to 300,000 hectares of natural habitat by 2030 are a huge win for the climate. However, Professor Alastair Driver, director of ...
A long-term passive rewilding study has shown that natural woodland regeneration could make a significant contribution to meeting the UK's ambitious tree planting targets - potentially at no cost and ...
A famous Highland glen managed by Scotland’s forestry agency has joined the UK’s largest rewilding landscape. Glen Affric National Nature Reserve, managed by Forestry and Land Scotland (FLS), has ...
A newly-launched national wildlife charity, Heal Rewilding, has announced plans to buy empty land across the UK and give nature the chance to recover it naturally, instead of planting nursery-grown ...
From wild gardening to greening cities and the creation of new sustainable woodland, the UK is embracing rewilding. And, increasingly, this includes our agricultural land. Vast swathes of our rural ...
Rewilding projects are multiplying in the U.K. in response to a growing awareness of the country’s serious loss of biodiversity. Britain ranked 189th out of 218 countries in the 2016 “State of Nature” ...
Environmentalists have condemned the unauthorised release of four hand-reared lynxes into the Scottish countryside, a move they claim is "counterproductive" to the rewilding movement. Eurasian lynx ...
You report the view that rewilding and nature restoration in the UK and other European nations risks “offshoring” food and forestry production to places where biodiversity and the environment will ...
Wolves are returning across Europe – but not to the UK and Ireland, where public support is lukewarm at best. Ecologists point out their benefits, while farmers worry about their livestock. But ...
Patrick Finnerty is the current director for early career ecology at the Ecological Society of Australia, the Early Career Coordinator at the Australasian Wildlife Management Society, and a council ...
If we don’t have pollinators, like bees and butterflies, we will also not have foods like apples, strawberries, and peaches, says Becky Griffin, the Community and school garden coordinator and ...