…range of other co-benefits, such as increased biodiversity, clean air, and better health and wellbeing in rural communities.   Low intensity natural grazing by animals such as water buffalo (pictured…

…are a keystone species, helping to create biodiversity-rich, half-open, half-wooded landscapes through their grazing and browsing. In addition, their reintroduction in the Rhodopes is helping to enhance local food chains,…

…grazing, browsing, and defecating in large quantities, dung beetles have been driving dung into burrows and filling a unique ecological role. With the loss of natural grazers in open landscapes,…

…river dynamics and natural grazing and the creation of natural corridors including ‘green bridges’ crossing highways. In the Deelerwoud/Veluwezoom area, a novel way of wildlife management started in 2001 with…

…carbon cycle in myriad ways. Herbivores – such as wild horses, European bison and Tauros – affect the exchange of carbon between ecosystems and the atmosphere through their grazing, by…

…indigenous horse from the region of the former Yugoslavia. It is today an endangered breed with only around 200 individuals left. Rewilding Europe’s breeding and natural grazing programme in Velebit…

…have joined forces to protect and increase the biodiversity in this area through rewilding. Release of semi-wild Garrano horses Frans Schepers / Rewilding Europe “Natural grazing is an important ecological…

…facilitating the sharing of knowledge and expertise across the continent. And the European Wildlife Bank is ensuring that natural grazing retakes its place in European habitats, boosting biodiversity and restoring…

…Agricultural Policy (CAP) – this is a drop in the ocean. The livestock predation challenge is exacerbated by the fact that many European landscapes have little or no natural prey…

…fire, dead wood in the ecosystem, spontaneous forest regeneration, natural grazing keeping land open, and natural fire prevention by bison? Frans Schepers / Rewilding Europe Unless a herd of bison…