🌿🌳 Rewilding triumph at Knepp Estate! After 20 years, Sussex’s 3,500-acre project boasts 900% more breeding birds, 500% rise in nightingales, & endangered species like turtle doves thriving. Butterflies up 900%, a biodiversity explosion proving nature rebounds! Read more […]
Photo of three longhorn cows grazing at Knepp Estate. Photo credit: Knepp Wildland.
#RewildingWin 5 is Harborough District Council’s plans to create a new 54-hectare rewilding site, using herbivores like ponies and rare breed cattle to graze the land more naturally
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Photo of a diver holding up kelp out of the water. Photo credit: Sarah Cunliffe.
#RewildingWin 4 is @sussexkelp.bsky.social 's four-year anniversary and with it, positive signs of recovery, including an increase in lobster, brown crab, angel shark and short-snouted seahorse populations
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Photo of a bare hillside in the Scottish Highlands. Photo credit: Katherine Gulika.
#RewildingWin 3 is the @scotwildlife.bsky.social receiving a gift of £17.5M to rewild an estate in the Highlands
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Photo of a grey seal underwater swimming over seaweed. Photo credit: Alexander Mustard/2020VISION.
#RewildingWin 2 is our Marine Rewilding Lead Jacques’s visit to @ukparliament.parliament.uk to give evidence to the Environment Audit Committee
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Photo of a beaver in a river. Photo credit: Peter Cairns / SCOTLAND: The Big Picture.
#RewildingWin 1 is the first wild beaver release in England by the @nationaltrust.bsky.social at network site Purbeck Heaths following the government’s decision to legalise wild beaver releases 🦫
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Beaver pond and autumn colour, South Clunes Farm, Inverness-shire. Image credits: Mark Hamblin / SCOTLAND: The Big Picture.
#RewildingWin 4: @rozsavagemp.bsky.social calls for greater government support for #rewilding after visiting Elmore Court in Gloucestershire, where she saw how nature-based solutions boost biodiversity, prevent floods and create jobs. (5/6)
Otter running on riverbank. Image credits: Michal Ninger / Shutterstock.
#RewildingWin 3: For the first time since the 1950s, a female #otter and her pup were spotted at Ewhurst Park, a 364ha estate near Basingstoke. (4/6)
Peatland restoration at Tarras Valley Nature Reserve. Image credits: Tarras Valley Nature Reserve.
#RewildingWin 2: The first phase of a major #PeatlandRestoration project has begun at the community-owned @tarrasvalleynr.bsky.social in Langholm, alongside the publication of a community co-designed five-year plan to restore nature on the reserve. (3/6)
Common crane, Grus grus. Image credits: Mark Hamblin / SCOTLAND: The Big Picture.
#RewildingWin 1: Cranes – once extinct in Britain – have arrived at Wicken Fen, the @nationaltrust.bsky.social's oldest nature reserve in Cambridgeshire 🪽 (2/6)
Great to be a #RewildingWin! We're chuffed to bits that what was only a dream back in 2017 is now coming to life. Partnership working works!
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Credits: Jacques Villemot
#RewildingWin 5: The Citizen Zoo #RewildingFutures Conference brought nearly 500 rewilders together, spreading hope and positivity with inspiring talks from our Rewilding Manager Sara King and Marine Rewilding Coordinator Jacques Villemot. (6/7)
Image credits: Scouts
#RewildingWin 4: Thanks to support from our Rewilding Innovation Fund, the Scouts are set to introduce rewilding to its adventure centres across Britain to address the “teenage dip” in nature connectedness. (5/7)
Credits: Mark Hamblin / SCOTLAND: The Big Picture.
#RewildingWin 3: 30,000ha to be restored by a community group and partners at Loch Arkaig, an area steeped in history and now on the path to becoming a flourishing landscape for people and wildlife. (4/7)
Seagrass meadow. Credits: Michiel Vos / Ocean Image Bank.
#RewildingWin 2: The Life Recreation ReMEDIES project, England's largest #seagrassrestoration project has restored eight hectares of seagrass meadows including in the Solent Maritime and Plymouth Sound Special Areas of Conservation. (3/7)
Dundreggan Rewilding Centre, Scotland. Credits: James Shooter.
#RewildingWin 1: @treesforlife.bsky.social's Rewilding Centre near Loch Ness has been awarded the Nature Tourism Award at @rspbscotland.bsky.social’s Nature of Scotland Awards 2024.
Since 2023, the centre has welcomed visitors to explore its 4000ha estate and Caledonian forests. (2/7)
Amazing #RewildingWin for the end of 2024. A huge project has been completed to restore vital seagrass along the southern coast.🌾 We can't wait to see more successes 2025.
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