Partner

Bringing nature and wildlife back to degraded landscapes.

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Challenge

Many of Europe’s more remote regions have experienced social, economic and environmental decline in recent decades, with jobs and services becoming scarce and populations shrinking. As more and more people gave up small-scale farming and moved away, the landscapes they had inhabited and shaped over centuries began to change. Without free-roaming livestock eating shrubs and tree shoots, open and mixed habitats such as steppes and grassland disappeared and were often replaced by less diverse forest monocultures, which offer fewer niches for different animal species to thrive in.

Rewilding Europe's response

With the support of Cartier for Nature, Rewilding Europe is bringing once lost wild species such as bison, wild horses and vultures back to Romania’s Carpathian Mountains and Spain’s Iberian highlands to revive degraded or abandoned landscapes and counter decades of decline. The reintroduction of such species into their natural ecosystems creates more diverse, vibrant landscapes where wildlife and human activity coexist and thrive side by side. It also attracts eco-friendly tourism and other sustainable nature-based business practices to these remote areas. In the second phase of the grant we are now funding Rewilding Europe as unrestricted.

Supported since

September 2022