A new film by award-winning French videographer Emmanuel Rondeau will premiere online on World Rewilding Day 2026. “The Danube Delta and the Healing Power of Nature” tells the story of how rewilding is helping one of Europe’s most remarkable landscapes recover, while offering hope and renewal to Ukrainian people living through the impacts of war.
Across the world, grasslands play a vital role absorbing and locking up carbon in their vegetation and soils. Recent research from the Tarutino Steppe in Ukraine shows how rewilding can revitalise grasslands, improving soil fertility and enhancing their carbon storage potential.
The Rewilding Ukraine team have just released a herd of seven fallow deer into the wild on the Tarutino Steppe. This exciting and long-awaited step towards a wilder landscape will deliver a range of benefits to nature and local communities.
The Rewilding Ukraine team are working to create a wilder and healthier Tarutino Steppe. The ongoing reintroduction of European hamsters is helping to breathe new life into this unique and vital European grassland.
Today, rewilding efforts are breathing new life into the Ukrainian Danube Delta. By immersing soldiers and their families in the landscape’s resurgent nature, a pioneering initiative is now helping people heal too.
The Rewilding Ukraine team have been working together with local partners to restore the connectivity of floodplains in the Danube Delta since 2019. By connecting Katlabuh Lake with the Danube River, their latest efforts are a step towards revitalising an entire chain of water bodies, with wide-ranging benefits for nature, local communities and society.
The Danube Delta is one of Europe’s largest and most important wetlands. Efforts by the Rewilding Ukraine team to restore natural water flow here are great news for Dalmatian pelicans and great news for local communities.
The war in Ukraine is taking a terrible toll on people and nature. Yet despite facing many challenges, the resilient Rewilding Ukraine team continue to see their efforts bear fruit.
For many years a network of dykes and canals have choked the life out of the Danube Delta. Rewilding efforts in the Ukrainian part of the delta are now restoring water flow, enhancing wildlife populations and benefitting local communities.
Removing dams is the best way of restoring rivers. The last European Rewilding Network webinar of 2019 saw 10 members come together to explore the topic and exchange experience and expertise.
