…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…

…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,…

…by reducing flammable vegetation, creating natural firebreaks, and opening up forested areas, which lets in more light and allows grass to grow instead of scrub. Outbreaks of catastrophic wildfire are…

…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…

…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,…

…of October, where the Auerrind Project – which is focused on natural grazing, back-breeding and scientific research on aurochs (an extinct species of large wild bovine) – will present their…

…the achievements of the natural grazing project in Lika Plains. It also presents the ongoing efforts of Rewilding Europe, Rewilding Velebit and the Forestry Faculty of the University of Zagreb…