Rewilding UK news

• ‘It fully changed my life!’ How young rewilders transformed a farm – and began a movement, theguardian.com (Nov 25, 2025)
• West Yorkshire moor brought under community ownership, thenews.coop (Oct 30, 2025) — Bridestones Moor, near Todmorden, will be managed by a CIC led by local ecologists, naturalists and residents
• As pine martens are reintroduced to south-west England, a new study shows why local people need to be involved, theconversation.com (Sep 09, 2025) — "...more collaborative relationships can be developed when people are involved in making plans for reintroduction."
• Scotland’s first community-led marine conservation network, scottishcommunityalliance.org.uk (Aug 28, 2025)
• Lynx could thrive in Northumberland with most in area supporting return, study finds, theguardian.com (Aug 07, 2025)
• Kent Wildlife Trust bids to raise £500k to buy land, BBC News (Apr 15, 2025)
• Beaver releases into wild to be allowed in England for first time in centuries, theguardian.com (Feb 28, 2025)
• Rewilding sees animals rebound in Hackney Marshes, BBC News (Feb 21, 2025)

• People already live alongside predators in India and Kenya – here’s how it could work in Scotland, theconversation.com (Dec 19, 2024)

• ‘A special place’: Guardian readers’ generosity helps to save rewilded farm, theguardian.com (Nov 14, 2024)

• Rewilder Derek Gow on turning his farm into an ark for lost species, positive.news (Oct 04, 2024) — A heartfelt plea for a wilder, more inspiring Britain. "It does not have to be this way. We know and can accomplish so much"

• Profits from community windfarm to fund a million native trees in Hebrides, theguardian.com (Aug 31, 2024)
• ‘Building something better’: the UK residents retrofitting their homes amid the climate crisis, theguardian.com (Aug 03, 2024) — From weekly skills-sharing to rewilding streets, communities are working to improve the planet while bolstering the health of people

• Backpack-wearing dogs enlisted to rewild urban nature reserve in Lewes, theguardian.com (Jul 26, 2024)

• ‘Give nature space and it will come back’: rewilding returns endangered species to UK’s south coast, theguardian.com (Jun 27, 2024)

• ‘Enormously exciting’: farm to create biggest natural grassland in southern England, theguardian.com (Mar 29, 2024)
• A mecca for rewilders: the community-led project restoring Scotland’s southern uplands, theguardian.com (Mar 20, 2024)
• Rewilding Nation declaration call for Scotland as Charter launched, scotlandbigpicture.com (Mar 15, 2024) — More than 2% of Scotland’s land now rewilding according to new figures
• Digitally mapping fertile spaces, teaching deep permaculture, all becoming co-stewards: Plymouth’s special social power at work, Daily Alternative (Mar 13, 2024)
• Dorset Wildlife Trust partners with Natural England to acquire Lyscombe Farm, dorsetwildlifetrust.org.uk/news (Mar 08, 2024)

• The Scottish Gaelic concept of Dúthchas urges that people and nature are deeply entangled. Let it guide the path to land reform, Daily Alternative (Feb 25, 2024)
• ‘Does rewilding sort climate change? Yes!’: UK expert says nature can save planet and not harm farming, theguardian.com (Feb 25, 2024)

• The rogue rewilders taking Britain’s biodiversity into their own hands, positive.news (Oct 31, 2023)
• Baby beaver born in London for first time in 400 years, theguardian.com (Sep 30, 2023)
• Beavers to return to London as part of urban rewilding, The Guardian (Mar 21, 2023)

• A community-buyout in the South of Scotland has taken land from the Duke of Buccleuch, and pointed it towards rewilding, The Daily Alternative (Oct 17, 2022)
• How Sussex farmers plan to rewild a nature-rich green corridor to the sea, The Guardian (Jul 22, 2022)
• Wild bison return to UK for first time in thousands of years, The Guardian (Jul 18, 2022)
• 'They just fit': Has the wild boar been over-culled?, inkcapjournal.co.uk (Jul 06, 2022) — Naturalists fear that boar are declining in the Forest of Dean. The controversial question, however, is how many should be there in the first place.
• Connectivity, Founder Opinion Piece, Hugh Somerleyton, Wild East (Jun 21, 2022)
• Welcome to wild Britain: the beavers are back and there’s more to come, The Guardian (Jun 20, 2022)
• Rewilding, or just a greenwashed land grab? It all depends on who benefits, Eleanor Salter, The Guardian (May 28, 2022)

• WildEdges Send Ministers Wild! Dec 14, 2021...^[1]
• ‘Natural Health Service’: Derby approves UK’s largest urban rewilding project, Nov 11, 2021...^[2]
• The potential of rewilding, Oct 26, 2021. Ben Stockwell, Urban Rewilding Officer for Citizen Zoo, argues that rewilding offers hope in the face of what seems like an almost irreversible environmental catastrophe. This approach is beginning to gain traction and is supported by, amongst others, the UN...^[3]

England’s first community rewilding project launches in Dorset, Sep 6, 2021...^[4]

• Rewilding 5% of England could create 20,000 rural jobs, Aug 12, 2021...^[5]
• Beavers set to be released in London as part of urban rewilding, Jul 2, 2021...^[6]
• One quarter of English councils have plans to rewild. Does yours? May 19, 2021...^[7]
• Rewilding will make Britain a rainforest nation again, George Monbiot, Sep 25, 2019...^[8]

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