Rewilding Journeys
Rewilding is about creating mosaics of habitats across land and sea, with benefits for people and nature. This illustration and toolkit convey how the ‘spectrum’ of rewilding might look in a terrestrial context.
What is rewilding?
Rewilding Britain wants to see an inspiring mosaic of rewilding across 30% of our land and seas, where nature is flourishing and delivering major benefits for people – including opportunities for vibrant green economies; healthier air, water and soils; and better health and wellbeing.
Rewilding has at its heart a focus on reinstating natural processes, such as free-flowing rivers or predator-prey relationships and, where appropriate, missing species – allowing them to create dynamic, constantly changing habitat mosaics.
It brings people and communities together to find ways to work, live and prosper within healthy, flourishing ecosystems. By recognising that prioritising nature can be a highly productive use of the land, rewilding can help us transition to a nature-rich, low-carbon future while delivering real, locally generated benefits today.
A gradation of approaches
Rewilding can happen across a gradation of approaches. These depend on the extent to which nature takes the lead and are guided by the local community, context and culture. The illustration and diagram in the Rewilding Journeys toolkit aim to give a sense of this ‘spectrum’ of rewilding and what it might look like in practice.
Download the full pdf of Rewilding Journeys
Download pdfThe Rewilding Journeys toolkit
The pdf toolkit is a visual aid designed to help convey our vision for rewilding in Britain. It includes:
- An illustrative rural scene in which all five levels of rewilding across the spectrum are visible
- Accompanying text on how to ‘read’ the image, focusing in on key themes including people and communities, natural process-led management, grazing and browsing and nature-based economies
- A diagram demonstrating how patches of land at different rewilding levels might look in practice if we were to map a fictional area in the near future.
In time, we will be producing equivalent assets to show our vision for marine rewilding.
Our vision
We would like to see 30% of Britain rewilding across all levels of the spectrum, with at least 5% in core rewilding areas (levels 4 and 5 in the illustration).
