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Rewilding

July 2024

  • Kit eating grass caught on camera at night in a black and white image

    National Trust celebrates birth of baby beaver one year after reintroduction

    Four animals released in Wallington estate in Northumberland last year have transformed the landscape
  • Wild flowers - mostly white - in bloom among grassland, with bushes and houses in Woolacombe Bay beyond

    National Trust’s wildflower meadow project flourishes on north Devon coast

    Vibrant blooms mean first stage of plan to cover 1,200 hectares is hailed as a success 18 months after planting
  • White stork with wings outstretched on grassland with several others in background

    Rewilding plan aims to bring majestic white storks to London

    Working group to look at where birds might be introduced and engage with boroughs and local community in capital

June 2024

  • Rivers, land and seascape are being rewilded along a 100-mile stretch of coastline in Sussex Bay.

    The Great British Seaside
    ‘Give nature space and it will come back’: rewilding returns endangered species to UK’s south coast

  • Wolf Ruck sits in his garden, which has tall grass, with a pair of binoculars

    The gardener who took a Canadian city to court for the right to not mow his lawn

  • Leonore Gewessler after the law was passed in Luxembourg

    EU passes law to restore 20% of bloc’s land and sea by end of decade

  • Lunch With Isabella Tree
Observer Food Monthly
OFM June 2024

    Lunch with...
    Conservationist Isabella Tree: ‘Rewilding is vital for the UK’s agricultural future’

  • Wilding review – farmland returns to nature in green and leafy conservation study

  • Seascape: the state of our oceans
    Save our seas: five ways to rewild and conserve the ocean

May 2024

  • A European bison in a snowy scene

    The age of extinction
    Herd of 170 bison could help store CO2 equivalent of 43,000 cars, researchers say

  • Small pearl-bordered fritillary butterfly

    The age of extinction
    Mass planting of marsh violets key to saving rare UK butterfly, says National Trust

April 2024

  • Sadiq Khan photographed outdoors with a blurred background of grass and trees; he is wearing a brown quilted anorak zipped up high under a dark blue jacket

    Sadiq Khan’s green credentials may be critical in London mayoral election

    As mayor aims to win third term, what has he achieved so far on air pollution, the climate crisis and nature?
  • Bluish-white spherical Chamonixia caespitosa growing in soil

    Rare truffle find in Scottish spruce forest sends fungi experts on alien species hunt

    Chamonixia caespitosa found during rewilding project in west Highlands while removing non-native Sitka spruce
  • Grazing sheep in the Appenzell Alps in Switzerland.

    Swiss farmers dump dead sheep in protest against rising wolf numbers

    Farmers lay carcasses in front of government building in Lausanne to press for resumption of wolf cull

March 2024

  • The Restore team standing on a lane surrounded by fields

    ‘Enormously exciting’: farm to create biggest natural grassland in southern England

  • A wolf under trees in the snow

    The age of extinction
    ‘We’d like to shoot them all’: growing army of wolfdogs raises hackles across Europe

  • Two men dressed in outdoor gear stand with a dog by an old stone wall in the Carrifran valley.

    The alternatives
    A mecca for rewilders: the community-led project restoring Scotland’s southern uplands

  • Europaischer Wolf, Canis lupus, European grey wolf<br>C9C17N Europaischer Wolf, Canis lupus, European grey wolf

    Wolves are thriving again across western Europe. Is it time to bring them back to the UK?

February 2024

  • Ecologist and rare butterfly breeder Martin White of Worksop

    The Audio Long Read
    From the archive: How maverick rewilders are trying to turn back the tide of extinction – podcast

  • Taransay with Harris in the distance

    Owners of Taransay to return Scottish ‘Castaway’ island to its bronze age state

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