…carnivores (especially the grey wolf), as well as carcasses for scavenging species (such as the local Egyptian, cinereous and griffon vulture populations). A more natural population dynamic between predators and…

Click on the image above to view images from the bison photo exhibition. Staffan Widstrand / Rewilding Europe   The focus of this year’s festival was nature photography. The bison…

Conversion of agricultural lands into more natural areas in Oasi Lago Salso, Puglia region, southern Italy. Matteo Caldarella Members of the European Rewilding Network (ERN) are keen to learn from…

…dolphins are now present in the European Rewilding Network. Apart from rewilding initiatives in which flooding is allowed, several areas with natural grazing and predation are included as important natural…

…attractive model to scale up natural grazing as a natural process in a growing number of rewilding pilots and nature reserves. Another important activity in the renewed partnership is the…

…top of this, natural processes have more space within the reserve, with dead animals being allowed to stay and decay. Due to the near complete absence of deer, the carcasses…

…in March outlining how European policies – particularly the European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) – could better support extensive grazing (where low-density livestock populations feed on natural vegetation). The…

…to become available for natural grazing in the rewilding areas. This mechanism (formerly called the European Herd Fund) has been successful in The Netherlands, Latvia and Bulgaria and is now…

…bison, beaver, brown bear, wolf and several species of vulture. Apart from the member sites where natural grazing and predation take place, also included are several rewilding areas in which…

…Estonia the natural process of grazing might be restored and take these areas one step closer to a more true wilderness. Western Europe, with its growing numbers of wild herbivores,…