In 2024, Rewilding Europe stepped up its efforts to advance nature recovery across Europe, in collaboration with partners, stakeholders, and supporters. Our latest Annual Review, which celebrates a highly rewarding year of progress, shows how rewilding is harnessing the power of nature to deliver a European continent where people and nature thrive together.
A wonderful year
Rewilding Europe works to scale up rewilding across Europe, carrying out impactful actions that deliver tangible benefits for people, nature, and climate. From restoring key habitats to empowering local communities, our rewilding efforts – and those of our partners – are delivering positive change, fostering an environment where people and wild nature can thrive alongside each other and offering hope for a brighter future for all.
Today, we are delighted to present our Annual Review for 2024 – the thirteenth year since our foundation – which shows how and why we are working hard to demonstrate and catalyse rewilding on an ever-larger scale, both inside and outside our rewilding landscapes. As we stepped up efforts to advance nature recovery, our wide-ranging achievements were made possible by the hard work, passion, and dedication of our pan-European team, which now boasts well over 200 people.
Harnessing the power of nature
With a hopeful and profound conservation narrative, rewilding demonstrates that there is every reason to harness “natural intelligence” to restore nature at scale, weaving it into the fabric of our lives – just as artificial intelligence is becoming increasingly commonplace in today’s society.
“For millions of years, natural processes have shaped and sustained life on Earth,” says Rewilding Europe Executive Director Frans Schepers. “Just as artificial intelligence is being employed to make everything work smarter, faster, and more intuitively, rewilding puts natural intelligence to work, making large-scale nature recovery feasible and sustainable.
“Our latest Annual Review is filled with examples of how Rewilding Europe leverages the power and resilience of nature to breathe new life into landscapes and deliver diverse benefits to people – from restoring the natural flow of water through rivers and wetlands to reduce the scale and impact of floods and droughts, to supporting the comeback of influential wildlife species such as European bison, semi-wild horses, and vultures, which can enhance the health, resilience, and value of entire ecosystems. The amazing ability of nature to restore itself, when given time, space, and the right conditions, is what empowers and inspires us.”
“Our latest Annual Review is filled with examples of how Rewilding Europe leverages the power and resilience of nature to breathe new life into landscapes and deliver diverse benefits to people.”
Frans Schepers
Executive Director, Rewilding Europe
Dive deeper into our work
Rewilding Europe’s Annual Review 2024 is the perfect place to read more about our work and growth. A fresh design presents information in a clear and accessible way, with infographics, sidebars, breakouts, and fact boxes complementing the main copy and stunning imagery from some of Europe’s finest wildlife photographers.
Showcasing the wide range of tangible results and positive impacts that we delivered throughout the year, the review includes a comprehensive overview of the progress made in each of our landscapes. This is complemented by five feature stories, which give readers a broader and deeper perspective on rewilding and the wide range of benefits it offers – from the importance of restoring ecological abundance, to the game-changing potential of wildlife-smart communities to scale up nature recovery across Europe and help us move towards a future where people and nature not only co-exist, but truly thrive together.
Onwards and upwards
Rewilding Europe would like to thank all our partners, donors, investors, advisors, scientists, photographers, and filmmakers, who each made an invaluable contribution to our efforts in 2024. We are also grateful to the increasing number of private individuals who now support us. To all those who helped us move forward, we truly appreciate your support and look forward to continued cooperation and burgeoning impact in 2025 and the years to come. If you aren’t involved in the rewilding movement yet, please consider joining us as we work to make Europe a wilder place.
We hope you enjoy reading our latest Annual Review as much as we enjoyed putting it together. Those who turn its pages will see and learn how rewilding is delivering real change – reshaping natural landscapes, transforming the socio-economic narrative for communities, and addressing some of our biggest challenges. The momentum behind rewilding is growing: with every step forward, the movement for a wilder, more resilient Europe is becoming stronger.
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