We want to make Europe a wilder place, with more space for wild nature, wildlife and natural processes. Donate and become part of the rewilding movement. You can support rewilding actions all over Europe by making a general donation, supporting special funds or choosing specific species. Let’s rewild and make Europe a wilder place!
Staffan Widstrand / Rewilding Europe
Support Rewilding Europe’s mission
Rewilding Europe wants to demonstrate the benefits of wilder nature through the rewilding of diverse European landscapes, and to inspire and enable others to engage in rewilding by providing tools and practical expertise.
Neil Aldridge
European Wildlife Comeback Fund
Supporting wildlife comeback is one of the core objectives of Rewilding Europe’s mission. In addition to creating the right conditions for wildlife comeback to happen naturally, Rewilding Europe takes active measures such as reintroductions of keystone species and population reinforcements.
Laurien Holtjer / Rewilding Europe
Next Generation Rewilders
Engaging and empowering young people is vital to the growth of rewilding. Therefore, we are setting up a community of ‘European Young Rewilders’. With the European Young Rewilders we want to inspire and support the next generation of European conservationists to help restore the natural world.
People around the world are supporting us – see why
Rewilding is the most beautiful idea I have ever seen in the world. The idea to bring back Europe some semblance of it’s past animals is breath-taking and desperately needed.
– Raleigh Latham
The European bison is an impressive animal and it deserves our efforts to establish it as an integral part of our European ecosystem in sufficient numbers.
– Roland Babilon
Sustainability is a key word for our ability to live off and on this planet. If the rewilding of Europe can be achieved it is a large step in a direction where it has become a reality.
– Niclas Ohlsson
A small symbolic amount just to feel like being part of it.
– Maarten Kleijne
I would love to see these guys roaming free all over Europe!
– Philip Parkes
I want to help in the restoration of the open landscape ecosystem of the east of Europe.
– Guido
Saving the wild life in Europe is something vital for our future and every European citizen should contribute to this.
– Anastasiya
Because if we don’t help, no one will, and because the result from the cause is here to stay for us and our children.
– Vladimir
Xavi Reñé
Support the vultures
Vultures are perhaps the most iconic examples of European scavengers; the sight of these majestic birds soaring overhead on thermals or feeding at a carcass can be truly captivating.
Pete Oxford / Wild Wonders of Europe
Return of the lynx
Of the four species of lynx that exist globally, two are found in Europe – the Eurasian lynx, and its cousin, the smaller, more brightly coloured Iberian lynx, which is now confined to southern Spain and Portugal.
Rewilding Europe supports the comeback of both species by creating more wild nature through natural grazing, which favours the conditions for prey species like the rabbit.
Grzegorz Lesniewski
Return of the European bison
The European bison, the largest land mammal on our continent, was severely hunted until it finally became extinct in the wild in 1927. By then, only 54 individuals remained, all in captivity. Rewilding Europe has made an action plan and works with many partners to bring back the European bison to its ancestral lands by establishing new wild bison populations in several of our rewilding landscapes, and creating new breeding stations.
Solvin Zankl / Rewilding Europe
Wild and free horses
Wild horses speak to our imagination as symbols of freedom and wild spirit. Rewilding Europe is working to bring back the wild horse to where it once belonged, into the European landscapes, where it used to be a vital part of the ecosystem for hundreds of thousands of years.
The last European wild horse died as late as in 1909. Before that, wild horses roamed through most of Europe’s ecosystems; from deserts, steppes and savannahs to deep forests and high mountains. It was exterminated and domesticated by our ancestors. Therefore, even though the original wild horse is now gone, there are still millions of horses around, and some horse breeds to this day carry on most of the gene material of the original wild horse. Many of them also live a semi-wild life already, exposed to wild challenges that are step by step refining and bringing back the wild, original traits in them.
Support the return of the wild horse in Croatia, Bulgaria and Portugal.
We would like to say thank you
€5 donation
A big thank you from the Rewilding Europe team
€25 donation
A certificate showing you are rewilding Europe together with us
€100 and more donation
Computer wallpaper image from one of Europe’s best nature photographers
- Are you interested in supporting rewilding with more than 10.000 euros or leaving a gift for Rewilding Europe in your will? Please contact Johan Booij: johan.booij@rewildingeurope.com
- Donors from the US can donate to Rewilding Europe through CAF America, thereby potentially qualifying for tax benefits applicable to US tax citizens. CAF America is a donor-driven organization that makes grants exclusively at the suggestions of US based donors, and qualified Rewilding Europe as an eligible organisation to receive US donations. US donors can use this Gift Form.
