The muralist whose art is a conversation with nature
Cole Swanson turns to rocks, dirt and lichen to make murals that highlight what often goes unnoticed.
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From barren to bountiful: How a village in Maharashtra reclaimed its forests and its future
After decades of struggle, the Indigenous community of Pachgaon in Maharashtra transformed a degraded forest into a thriving ecosystem – proving that rewilding can be both ecological and equitable.
How leveraging culture can boost support for rewilding
Artists have power both financial and cultural. Here's how they can help make rewilding work.
A new film shines a spotlight on the white-tailed eagle
Thanks to 50 years of dedicated effort, the UK’s largest bird of prey is a rewilding success story.
The group restoring Colombia’s tropical dry forest – and helping monkeys, too
Conservation non-profit Proyecto Tití is harnessing the power of community to rebuild local ecosystems.
These volunteers are building pollinator habitat – and community
A network of volunteers across Canada are growing native plants to help butterflies and other species survive and thrive.
“Let the seeds fall where they may”
In the city of Saskatoon on Canada’s Prairies, gardener Karen Hunter is supporting butterflies and spreading her love of native seeds.
Wild farming benefits crops – and ecosystems too
How farmers are inviting nature onto their land to help restore the connections between cultivated and wild lands – and become stewards of biodiversity.
“Our yard is now teeming with life”
How one Australian homeowner is transforming her standard-issue suburban yard into habitat for birds, insects, lizards and more.
Want to support pollinators beyond your yard? Here’s how to do it
A pollinator corridor can bring butterflies, bees and neighbourhoods together. Here’s how to get one started in your community.
Urban rewilding has brought back beavers, hornbills and platypuses to city parks – and that’s just the start
If we want greener, wilder and more resilient cities, we can’t stop at plants. It’s time to bring the animals back too.
The secret wolf pack
A pack of wolves has recolonized an area of the Lower Mainland of British Columbia, Canada. So far, they’re being welcomed.
The great comeback of the Iberian lynx
A concerted and collective effort has helped populations rebound of this predator native to Spain and Portugal.
How wildlife tourism can help us coexist with carnivores
Rewilding needs apex predators – but they can cause challenges for locals. In Montana, one community is making this work.
The Rio Grande Valley was once covered in forest. One man is trying to bring it back.
The Tamaulipan thorn forest once covered 1 million acres on both sides of the Mexico-U.S. border. Restoring even a fraction of it could help the region cope with the ravages of a warming world.
Why – and how – to rewild the night
Light pollution puts wildlife at risk. Learn why darkness matters and some steps we can take to make things better.
The Skolt Sámi are rewilding the Näätämö River to protect their way of life
In Finland's far north, a collaborative approach encompassing Indigenous knowledge with Western science is helping to restore vital habitat for fish – and people.
Y2Y is making way for grizzlies and more
Wildlife expert Jodi Hilty discusses how the Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative’s interconnected corridors are making a massive impact on multiple species.
4 ways Ottawa is rewilding (and your city can, too)
This Canadian capital's land base might be small compared with the country as a whole, but it's got extra-large political impact.
The group using YouTube to rewild the planet
How Planet Wild is building community and crowdfunding its way toward a better tomorrow.
How fixing roadside curbs can help reptiles and amphibians survive
To lessen the impact of human-built structures on the movement of wildlife, we need to start with smart design.
“We’re discovering a kind of magic”
Rewilding golf courses, attracting bumblebees, a tree book with soul and readers' goals for 2025.
The Scottish site where bumblebees now thrive
Rewilding Denmarkfield has been fairly hands-off with its work. The result: an abundance of bees and native plants finding their way to the land.
When golf courses go wild
How non-profits, trusts and cities are converting manicured greens into places where wildlife, plants and people can flourish.
The group spreading native seeds, one packet at a time
Minnesota's MnSeed Project is boosting biodiversity by collecting, saving and planting native seeds – and teaching others to do so, too.
Our most popular stories of 2024
An urban pollinator corridor, replacing lawn with habitat and why landscape design matters when it comes to rewilding.
All the books we recommended in 2024
All the books we recommended in 2024, plus one extra for your year-end reading list.
This is just the beginning
Reducing human-wildlife conflict, getting to know your land, a rewilding-focused art exhibit and a new book on the urban wild.
The solar tech reducing human-wildlife conflict in India
An innovative approach to deterring wildlife from villages is helping save money and lives – both human and animal.
“I started to wonder, what if?” Q&A with author Conor Kerr
The Métis writer’s new novel imagines setting a herd of bison free in downtown Edmonton – and the fallout that comes from it.
At the Canadian Museum of Nature, rewilding is art
A new exhibit in partnership with the David Suzuki Foundation and Rewilding Magazine showcases artistic expressions of rewilding.
Rewilding your lawn or garden? First, get to know it
Once upon a time, the land you tend was stewarded by others – or by nature itself. Learn how to assess your site and the plants that will grow best there.
“We need to have a wilder attitude”
Giant tortoises in Madagascar, how to shop for native plants and rewilding books to inspire and make you think.
Are people bad or good for biodiversity?
Should rewilding mean removing people? New research shows that human influence isn’t necessarily a bad thing.
How to shop for native plants
So you want to put native plants in your yard – great! But where do you find them, and how do you know they're the right ones?
The return of the bison
European settlement drove plains bison out of the North American prairies. Can rewilding bring them back?
Yes, rewilding your garden matters
In her new book One Garden Against the World, author Kate Bradbury demonstrates how individual action can lead to significant impact.
Madagascar’s giant tortoises are back – after 600 years
Giant tortoises were once an integral part of Madagascar's ecology. Through reintroductions, scientists are hoping to help restore the land and boost its resilience.
“We need to rewild our mindset”
A new book rounds up perspectives on rewilding that show its broad applicability – and why adjusting how we think should be the first step.
Show people you care
A restored urban creek, a rewilding art exhibit and a new book about coexisting with bears, plus how to remove your lawn.
How a dead urban creek was brought back to life
Decades ago, Guichon Creek was buried underground and channelled through culverts. Today, it’s an ongoing restoration success story.
The pros and cons of 5 lawn removal methods
Ready to rewild your yard? Review these strategies for some ways to turn your lawn into a biodiverse garden.
“The forest is us, and we are it too”
How native forest in Mozambique's Gorongosa National Park is getting a helping hand from an unlikely partner: coffee farming.
Rewilding in photos: Finding hope in solutions
A new art exhibit at the UK's Manchester Museum showcases objects, films and photographs that highlight rewilding successes.
The case for active stewardship
Pollinator gardens, expanding butterfly habitat, the trouble with honeybees and a new book about shaping ecosystems.
How to save a butterfly
Scientists, volunteers and incarcerated women are helping the Taylor's checkerspot butterfly expand its range – and finding hope along the way.
4 ways to turn your lawn into an edible garden
Why devote your yard to turfgrass when you can use that space to feed yourself *and* the other creatures who call your neighbourhood home?
“We’re giving nature a very gentle helping hand”
How Hedley Tomlyn and his team are restoring a Scottish conifer plantation into native broadleaf forest.
The trouble with urban beekeeping
Trying to help the bees? Here's why experts say it’s time to rein in the honeybee craze and turn to pollinator gardens instead.
Kittens with a purpose
Scotland's wildcat introduction, wolves in Colorado and boar in the UK, plus reasons to flood farmland *and* downsize your lawn.
6 reasons to downsize your lawn
It’s time to imagine a future where lawns aren’t the norm – and homegrown habitats are.
The pollinator corridor project that’s transforming Melbourne’s streets
How an Australian grassroots project led by one determined resident is boosting habitat for native plants and wildlife one roadside garden at a time.
How can California solve its water woes? By flooding its best farmland
Restored floodplains in the state’s agricultural heartland are fighting both flooding and drought. But their fate rests with California’s powerful farmers.
The winery that’s chosen to coexist with nature
How Canada’s Garnet Valley Ranch has interspersed its vineyards and farmland with plenty of space for nature to thrive.
Grey wolves are back in Colorado. Here's what happens next
Grey wolves are an important apex predator that are being brought back from the brink. Their latest new territory? The mountains of Colorado.
Good news for those who care
Planting mangroves in Mexico, connecting gibbons in India and tips to boost biodiversity in your very own yard.
The endangered gibbons who’ve been reunited after 132 years
It took 13 years for this tree-planting project to begin to form a wildlife corridor. Now, the route is expanding territory for western hoolock gibbons and other primate species.
This couple has planted over a million mangroves on Mexico’s Pacific coast
For over a decade, Ana María and David have led their community to restore Mexico’s desert mangroves with dedication, experimentation and plenty of heart.
How (and why) to garden for bats
Bats are an essential part of our ecosystems. Learn how you can support these nocturnal mammals where you live.
5 easy ways to boost biodiversity in your yard
Make your property a better wildlife habitat with these simple tips.
The best plan for lazy gardeners
An art project with a mission, restoring grasslands, how to plant a tree and a TED talk worth watching.
The soundscape performance reviving the wildlife of the past
How a new initiative by UK-based Heal Rewilding is building awareness, raising funds and connecting audiences to the natural world.
Restoring lost grasslands is as important as planting trees
Most of the grasslands that once dotted Ontario have been lost to development and agriculture. Bringing back these carbon-rich landscapes would be good for birds, bees, butterflies and people.
Returning the endangered slow loris to its wild Javan home
How a team of Indonesian conservationists is rehabilitating illegally traded Javan slow lorises so they can reclaim their lives in the wild.
How to plant a tree
There are so many benefits to expanding urban forest cover. Here's how you can make your own contribution.
Restoring humans as part of nature
Foraging wild greens in India, removing invasive English ivy on Vancouver Island and what successful forest restoration really needs – plus a new book about milkweed.
How rewilding can help boost food security
In India, an urban foraging movement is helping to restore relationship with nature and encourage rewilding projects that incorporate edible plants.
In W̱SÁNEĆ territories, removing invasive English ivy makes way for indigenous plants
Every month, Tseycum First Nation artist Sarah Jim invites volunteers to pull the dense vines choking native species on her family’s land.
“We rewilded our yard DIY style – and got the neighbours on board too”
This American couple has spent the past few years turning their property into wildlife habitat while inviting neighbours and passers-by to join the movement.
Billions have been raised to restore forests, with little success. Here’s the missing ingredient
Forget the tragedy of the commons. To build healthier forests, we need to harness the power of community.
Why a little eco-anxiety can be a good thing
How to find your rewilding community, tips on biodiverse garden design, rewilding projects in Ukraine and a new book about deer.
How the Yorkshire Rewilding Network is building connections and community – and hope
This rewilding charity is bringing together nature enthusiasts to support each other in their rewilding efforts. Here's how – and what we can learn from them.
Why wildlife gardeners need to become garden designers ASAP
How do we garden for wildlife while getting our neighbours and communities onboard, too? It starts with a focus on design.
The landscape architects making Singapore wilder
How landscape architecture firm Salad Dressing is challenging norms to rewild its projects and bring nature back to the city.
Fighting for wildlife in a time of war
As conflict rages around them, Ukrainian conservationists persevere in restoring the Danube Delta, one of Europe’s most prized ecosystems.
Our most popular stories of 2023
Rewilding and the law, the world's first rewilding centre, feeding wild birds, tree-based farming and an artist who works with wild plants: our top stories of the year cover the gamut.
All the books we recommended in 2023
Some of them were new this year, some of them are oldies-but-goodies. All 23 are worthy additions to your rewilding-adjacent bookshelf or your gift-giving list.
How Squiirrel is addressing the need for seed
This new made-in-Canada app is connecting collectors of native tree seed with the planters, nurseries and restoration ecologists who need them.
“We need nature everywhere”
Our inaugural gift guide, French bears, a Canadian tidal marsh and a new book from Brazil.
How France brought brown bears back to the Pyrenees
Thanks to biological monitoring and community outreach, the once-nearly-extinct bruins are again ambling through the mountains.
This tidal marsh was dying. A new restoration project is reversing the trend
In Boundary Bay, British Columbia, removal of logs and debris is giving native flora and fauna a helping hand.
5 wildlife crossings helping species survive
Rewilding needs connectivity. These examples show how smart design can prevent road deaths and help animals migrate from place to place.
Why botanizing can make our lives better
Plants are essential to life on this planet, yet they often recede into the background. Here's how – and why – to get to know them better.
It really does take a village
Restoring mangroves in India, the value of fire and how (and why) to make leaf mold. Plus, a new book on road ecology.
“We have to protect the mangroves so they can protect us”
On the coast of the Bay of Bengal where India meets Bangladesh, a loss of mangrove forests has increased the threat from tropical cyclones. But a group of dedicated volunteers is working to rewild these natural defences.
Indigenous forest management: a culture of burning
European settlers to North America marvelled at its landscapes – then banned the traditional practices that created them. Now, it's time to bring them back.
This living roof is a home for plants and wildlife – right in the city
One San Francisco project demonstrates how rewilding can be supported in the unlikeliest of places.
Leaf mold: what it is, and how to make your own
Don't discard fallen leaves. Instead, turn them into this useful DIY soil amendment or potting medium.
Sometimes, fighting for nature works
How to feed wild birds, the value of urban rewilding and what it's really like to live alongside wolves.
Putting cities at the heart of rewilding
Urban rewilding doesn't just help cities and their residents. It's good for the rest of nature, too.
We need to rethink how we feed wild birds
Birdseed has its place, but what threatened wild birds really need is more natural sources of food – in your backyard and beyond.
These farms are changing back to grassland and forest
Just 90 minutes from Montreal, one group is rewilding a pair of flood-prone river islands into biodiverse habitat where wildlife can thrive – and visitors are welcome.
The truth about living alongside wolves
Wolf restoration in Colorado shows how humans are rethinking their relationships with wild animals – and the ways we can make this coexistence work.
Little birds, big impact
Saving superb fairywrens, restoring the soil and gardening the forest, plus a book packed with inspiring stories of wildlife recovery.
Learning how to garden a forest
An outdated land management ideology with roots in colonialism is keeping California and the America West from taking essential steps toward mitigating increasingly destructive wildfires.
These tiny birds need more habitat. Can urban rewilding help?
In Sydney and Melbourne, a coalition of residents, officials and researchers is working to find ways to build more habitat for the superb fairywren and other threatened birds.
The world’s first rewilding centre is open for visitors
Deep in the Scottish Highlands at the Dundreggan Rewilding Centre, UK charity Trees for Life is showcasing how rewilding works and what it could mean for the future of the region.
Restoring the soil beneath our feet
On one Vancouver street, lifeless soil is being revived thanks to a neighbour's diligent efforts – and a little help from the fairies and gnomes.
Our origin story – and a gift from Wales
Celebrating rewilding heroes, how to fight extinction and a return to the place where our journey began.
The solution to extinction is you
Every crisis is connected. We must address the biodiversity crisis, the climate emergency, and poverty and injustice at the same time.