Celebrate World Book Day the wild way

In A Wilding Year, artist and Rewilding Network member Hannah Dale invites you to follow her deeply personal journey of rewilding her Lincolnshire farm. This beautiful book explores one family’s journey to embrace the beauty to be found in untidy landscapes and leaning into this land’s natural inclination to be wet, which is heralding the return of skylarks, meadow pipits, hobbies, polecats and many more species to the farm. 

This rewilding journey has also provided Hannah with new sources of inspiration for her paintings. A Wilding Year is both a journal and a sketchbook, in which Hannah keeps a visual record of the incredible variety of species she finds on the farm. 

A Wilding Year is out on 11 March 2025. 

Grieving from multiple personal traumas, Merlin Hanbury-Tenison returns to his childhood family farm Cabilla on Cornwall’s Bodmin Moor and experiences profound healing in the extraordinary woodlands there — for Cabilla is home to rare UK temperate rainforest and ancient oak woodlands, some of our richest and most complex terrestrial habitats in the UK.

Our Oaken Bones is an unsparingly honest and deeply personal account of Merlin’s fight to save not only his family and his farm — which is now a thriving wellness centre and rewilding site part of the Rewilding Network — but one of the world’s most endangered habitats through the power of rewilding.

Our Oaken Bones is out on 20 March 2025, World Rewilding Day. 

In Natural Connection, Jocelyn Longdon reclaims the importance of awe for the natural world and reveals how marginalised communities and ancient wisdom can help us create a sustainable mindset and future for generations to come.

In this powerful book, Longdon — an award-winning environmental justice researcher and educator — celebrates the histories and extraordinary acts of ordinary people who have paved the way for today’s environmental movement. 

Bringing together stories and inspiration from marginalised people from across the globe, this book roots us in our intrinsic connection with the natural world, celebrating the power of community. 

Natural Connection is out on 17 April 2025. 

Tucked away in the flat lands of rural East Anglia lies Wicken Fen, the National Trust’s oldest nature reserve and part of the Rewilding Network. One of Europe’s most important wetlands, this wildlife sanctuary boasts over 9,000 recorded species.

Wetland Diaries is a seasonal account of ranger life on Wicken Fen by wildlife presenter, conservationist, naturalist, author, voice-over artist and Wicken Fen ranger Ajay Tagala. Ajay shares the spirit and atmosphere of the Fens, offering an insight into the privileges and pressures of managing semi-wild animals in one of the country’s first wetland restoration projects, creating precious breathing space for nature and people alike.

In Groundbreakers, Chantal Lyons gets to know the complex, intelligent, quirky and often divisive wild boar, meeting with people across Britain and beyond who celebrate their return – or want them gone.

Like beavers, wild boar are important eco-system engineers which were once native to the UK but were driven to extinction hundreds of years ago. Thanks to rewilding efforts, they have returned to multiple sites in Britain — but reintroductions have not always gone smoothly. 

In this ultimately uplifting book, Lyons explores the past, present and future of wild boar in the UK and reveals what it might take for us to coexist with this enigmatic species once more. You can read more about what inspired Chantal to pen Groundbreakers in our Q&A. 

Alastair Humphreys is an adventurer and globe-trotter, returning in 2005 from cycling around the world, an epic journey that took him four years. In Local: A Search for Nearby Nature and Wilderness, Humphreys is back on his bike – but instead of cycling around the world, he instead chooses to explore a small map around his own home: a thoroughly ordinary part of Britain that features motorways and industrial areas as well as woods and fields.

This charming book is a celebration of curiosity and time spent outdoors discovering the wonders of nature that exist right on our doorsteps. From swirling swifts to dancing bluebells, Humphreys finds delight and wonder in everyday UK nature and the book serves as a stark reminder of everything we still have to lose if we do not act fast to protect and restore our wild spaces.

A love letter to our precious planet and all of its wonders, Imagine a World by author, yoga teacher and adventure retreat coordinator Jenny Clarke explores the marvels of Earth and the creatures we share it with. Full of awe and excitement, this book will take you and your little ones on an exciting voyage of discovery from our deepest oceans to our most stunning wildflower meadows.

The book includes fun ideas for children to encourage and build their connection to nature, and 25p from every copy sold in the UK is being donated to Rewilding Britain. So, buying this book means you’re learning about and directly contributing to rewilding – win win! 

Imagine a World is out on 22 April 2025. 

Rewild the World at Bedtime is a welcome treasury of 20 soothing stories offering a dose of hope from rewilding projects across the globe. From the plucky Eurasian beaver reintroduced to a river in Devon to the magnificent tiger saved with animal dung stoves in Nepal, this collection of calming and reassuring bedtime rewilding stories show how animals contribute to ecosystems and make positive impacts around the world.

An engaging and accessible collection of stories about the environment, this book is an uplifting read, offering a hopeful message about the power of nature to heal.

The Book of Wilding by pro-rewilder Isabella Tree, author of Wilding and rewilder at Knepp Wildland in Sussex, is the new go-to manual for inspiring rewilders. Using the extraordinary story of Knepp’s journey from failing farm to rewilding success as a case study, Tree walks us through everything about rewilding from its history and use today to its ethos and practical application.

The detail here is astounding – everything you could ever want to know about rewilding can be found in these 500+ pages. Though the sheer size of this book is a little intimidating, its clear structure allows you to jump to whatever part fits your journey best: whether you’re looking to actively rewild or simply want to better understand the myriad of benefits rewilding brings to both people and nature.

The Rough Guide to Rewilding in Britain is the latest picture-packed addition to Rough Guides’ Inspirational series. Serving as the perfect starting point if you’re looking to get outdoors and see rewilding for yourself, it reveals 15 destinations to take travellers to some of Britain’s most beautiful and wild escapes in nature.

Our supporters will undoubtedly recognise some top-tier rewilding projects in the list of 15, the majority of which are members of the Rewilding Network – including Wilder Doddington, Wild Ken Hill, Wilder Blean and, of course, Knepp Wildland.

As well as detailed introductions to rewilding sites and wild places, the book also has chapters on Rewilding Experiences and Responsible Travel, making it the ideal pre-rewilding-road trip read.