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Rewilding Europe

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Pan-European rewilding initiative operating across 10+ landscapes, reintroducing wildlife, supporting nature-based economies, and running the European Rewilding Network connecting 100+ local initiatives.

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Rewilding as governance in Ukraine's Danube Delta

A new documentary shows how rewilding in Ukraine's Danube Delta operates as both ecological restoration and social healing — restoring natural processes while offering veterans and communities a lived practice of renewal amid war.

Scottish rewilding lodge joins pan-European practitioner network

Ballintean Mountain Lodge, a 30-year rewilding experiment in the Cairngorms, joins the European Rewilding Network — a move that underscores how ecological restoration increasingly operates through distributed governance: peer learning, knowledge exchange, and practice-led networks rather than top-down mandates.

What makes a rewilding image worth seeing — and judging

As the Rewilding Europe Award deadline approaches, photographer Jon A. Juárez reflects on what makes rewilding imagery matter: not just aesthetics, but the governance relationships between people, science, and returning ecosystems.

Lake Kartal: wetland governance tested at war's edge

In Ukraine's Danube Delta, six years of restoration has reconnected 18,000 hectares of floodplain to the river — a reminder that ecological governance means reshaping flows, not just protecting boundaries, even under the strain of invasion.

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