Celebrating World Rewilding Day

European Rewilding Network membership hits 100 on World Rewilding Day - Rewilding European

Today, rewilding initiatives and people across the world will celebrate World Rewilding Day with the theme #RewildingTogether. Rewilding Europe’s European Rewilding Network, which has just seen its membership reach 100, showcases the power of collaborative action in scaling up the impact and benefits of nature recovery.

United for nature recovery

World Rewilding Day, which takes places on March 20 every year, was launched in 2021 by the Global Rewilding Alliance. Today, it will see rewilding initiatives and people from six continents come together again to raise awareness of rewilding and the need for nature recovery around the globe, with the theme #RewildingTogether.

The need for nature and the wide range of benefits it provides has never been greater. This year, Rewilding Europe aims to demonstrate how joining forces to rewild now is our best hope of realising a world where we can all thrive. And what better way to celebrate than by announcing that membership of our European Rewilding Network has now reached 100.

“The aim of the network is to bring together and empower rewilding initiatives from across Europe, so for it to reach this milestone on this year’s World Rewilding Day is a particularly special and significant moment,” says Julia Mata, Rewilding Europe’s Upscaling Manager. “The European Rewilding Network is the perfect showcase for how collective rewilding action can amplify the scale, impact, and benefits of nature recovery. What the members of the network are doing together is a real inspiration.”

Empowering collaborative action

At Rewilding Europe we recognise that our work is part of a broader European rewilding movement. As part of this movement, many great and inspirational rewilding initiatives have already developed over the last few decades, with more continuing to mushroom across the continent.

The aim of the European Rewilding Network is to bring these initiatives closer together, empowering each network member with the information and tools to be more successful in their rewilding efforts. All network members can access our European Wildlife Comeback Fund, for example, which provides funding for the reintroduction of keystone species, and our Natural Grazing Facility, which works to scale up natural grazing by brokering the demand and supply of wild herbivores such as horses and European bison.