The first World Rewilding Day took place on March 20th, 2021. Now a successful yearly event, World Rewilding Day brings together rewilders and supporters from all around the world to share awareness of the growing movement, inspire others to join, and remind rewilders that they are not alone in their mission. World Rewilding Day is an invitation to celebrate the amazing success stories already happening on every continent.
Hope Into Action
This year’s theme #HopeIntoAction aligns with the core message of the rewilding movement: Rewilding provides practical hope based on real, positive actions happening now.
Rewilders, fueled by hope, take action that is addressing the climate crisis and reducing fire, flood and drought – as well as reversing nature’s decline.
What is rewilding?
Rewilding is about restoring the web of life from cities to the wildest places on the planet, by taking the long-term view, and embracing natural solutions to environmental, social and economic challenges.
As expressed by the Global Charter for Rewilding the Earth: Rewilding means helping nature heal. Rewilding means giving space back to wildlife and returning wildlife back to the land and the seas towards the mass recovery of ecosystems and the life-supporting functions they provide. Rewilding is about allowing natural processes to shape whole ecosystems so that they work in all their colourful complexity to give life to the land and the seas.
Rewilding is a much-needed holistic approach as it aims to restore ecosystem functions on which human wellbeing and prosperity depend. It is a systemic solution for a systemic problem, and it addresses simultaneously two of the biggest challenges facing humankind: biodiversity extinction & loss of ecosystem functions, and climate change.
The many rewilding initiatives that are part of the Global Rewilding Alliance, and their achievements, (many of them large scale) show that this can be done - and much faster than one might believe. Rewilding is proving to be a powerful vision that is turning into reality. Rewilding philosophy is based on active hope and practical optimism and inspires people from all walks of life around the globe to take action. It’s the perfect antidote to climate anxiety, apathy, despair and disengagement.
Bringing rewilders together
The intention of the day is to engage more and more people in our beautiful movement - but also to encourage each other; like any form of leadership, rewilding can be a challenging, exhausting and isolating pursuit, so seeing the stories of other rewilders around the world can really encourage each of us. This makes us a more cohesive, effective and enjoyable movement.
To do this, we will be coming together to capture the courageous, pragmatic and innovative spirit that imbues the global rewilding movement, by sharing stories that focus on the people doing the rewilding, the actions they are taking, the challenges they are facing and overcoming, and perhaps some of the dramatic moments that they have had.
Get Involved & Get in Touch
On March 20, 2024, the Global Rewilding Alliance will celebrate the impressive rewilding transformation we are already experiencing and to be part of a movement that’s acting towards a thriving future for all.
We invite rewilding organisations to come together and celebrate the success and lessons of their projects and efforts. Sign up for updates on World Rewilding Day and the Global Rewilding Alliance.
About Global Rewilding Alliance
The Global Rewilding Alliance is a worldwide organisation with rewilders on every continent to help nature heal itself and secure a thriving future for people, nature and planet. Together our 172 alliance partners are influencing the rewilding of over 2 million square kilometers of land and seas - and growing fast.
The Global Rewilding Alliance, in collaboration with the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, aims to build and support the global rewilding movement. Our mission is to mainstream rewilding in science, policy and practice by 2030. We’re a good way there already!
Find out more here and join the celebration!
The UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration 2021-2030, led by the United Nations Environment Programme, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and its partners, covers terrestrial as well as coastal and marine ecosystems. As a global call to action, it will draw together political support, scientific research and financial muscle to massively scale up restoration. Find out how you can contribute to the UN Decade. Follow #GenerationRestoration.