A herd of Buffalo wallowing at dusk. Photo credits: Zeynep Sude Emek from Pexels An article co-authored by Karl Wagner, Jennifer Gooden, Magnus Sylvén, Adrian Cullis Progress toward big challenges, like protecting rangelands and the pastoralists who use them, can be...
Photo credits: NamibElephant from Getty Images Signature. This week, the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Contracting Parties to the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands (COP15) will be held in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, from July 23 to 31, 2025. We are bringing our...
Photo credit: Girishacf from Getty Images. Written by Magnus Sylvén & May Scott. New research funded by the Chinese government shows that protecting Tigers can significantly increase forest carbon storage — advancing the goals of both the Convention on Biological...
Welcome to the 2024 Annual Review of the Global Rewilding Alliance Secretariat. A year of consolidation. Institutionally, the Secretariat set up itself as an Association in the Canton of Geneva hosted by the International Institute of Sustainable Development (IISD) –...
Photo credit: Ramsar Convention on Wetlands On 4th March 2025, the team of the Global Rewilding Alliance met with the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands Secretariat for an official handover of the recently published report 'Taking Animals Into Account', a report on...
Wallowing Water Buffalo. Photo credit: Stephane Jaquemet from Getty Images. Today, on World Wetlands Day, the Global Rewilding Alliance and ten partner organisations launch a compelling report, Taking Animals into Account, that reveals how wild animals play an...
A new comprehensive platform brings together tools and resources for scientists, policymakers and journalists to link biodiversity and climate action Animating the Carbon Cycle (ACC) is an emerging field of science and policy, producing rigorous, peer-reviewed...
Eland reintroduction. Photo credit: Peace Parks Foundation Through reinstalling natural processes, such on water, rewilding helps to reduce the risks of desertification. How can rewilding help reduce desertification and its effects? This was the question set by the UN...
At the Global Rewilding Alliance, our commitment goes beyond restoring ecosystems; we're dedicated to mainstreaming rewilding itself in practice, policy and science. Our goal is to bridge the gap between groundbreaking scientific discoveries and real-world impact,...
Rewilding animals is one of our best options to partner with nature to combat climate change Magnus Sylvén & Oswald SchmitzMar 27, 2023Exactly one week ago the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its latest report on the current and future...
Protecting and enhancing wildlife populations could be a global warming game changer Mar 27, 2023 New science published today reveals that protecting and enhancing the populations of even a limited number of wildlife species could help to keep rising global...
BBC Radio 5 News interview with Oswald Schmidt on Animating the Carbon CycleAt COP26, BBC Radio 5 News interviews Oswald Schmitz, Oastler Professor of Population and Community Ecology in the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies at Yale University and...
Animate the Carbon Cycle Animate Carbon Cycle release 2 November final The Global Rewilding Alliance (GRA) is facilitating a high-level group of 60 scientists, economists, and civil society organisations to launch an initiative that, by 2023, will demonstrate the...
Animating the Carbon Cycle Presentation VideosThe following videos are all taken from a webinar to introduce the concept and model for Animating the Carbon Cycle. In order that the individual contributor sections can be shared and watched separately, all of them begin...
View the entire webinar:Youtube Link: https://youtu.be/IvjcNbRF2WkVimeo Link: https://vimeo.com/558709797 PRESS RELEASEEmbargoed until 3 June 2021contact Magnus Sylven: First-ever initiative launched demonstrating the key importance of rewilding nature...
Ocean Rewilding and Animating the Marine Carbon Cycle By Steven Lutz, GRID-Arendal, Arendal, Norway Our marine fingerprint Bleached coral on a degraded reef in Sri Lanka (Photo: Steven Lutz). Ocean rewilding is the large-scale restoration of marine ecosystems...
How ‘Animating the Carbon Cycle’ Can Help Slow Global WarmingAn overlooked tool in fighting climate change is using animal biodiversity conservation to improve ecosystem carbon storage. Key to this is appreciating that rich variety of ways that animals can control the...
Nature-Based Solutions BACKGROUND To meet societal challenges, such as climate change, disaster risk reduction, economic and social development, human health and water security, and environmental degradation and biodiversity loss, the concept of nature-based solutions...
Infectious Diseases Report BACKGROUND The transformation of nature, and especially of primary ecosystems, has increased the exposure of humans to pathogens originating in wildlife. Together with the industrialization of food production both on land and in sea and the...
