…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…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…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,…

…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…

…natural processes that have been lost or weakened. In many areas of Spain where livestock have disappeared as a result of such depopulation, the decline in grazing has seen the…

…particular the release of more European bison in the Southern Carpathians in Romania, as well as further extension of natural grazing and wildlife populations in the Velebit Mountain in Croatia….

…deer and chamois in breeding centres. Natural grazing in Nature Park Beremytske, Ukraine The most eastern ERN member, Nature park Beremytske in Ukraine, is one of the first rewilding initiatives…