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Review: Rewilding leading to a ‘hopeful shift' across Europe
Rewilding Europe's 2024 annual review has revealed that nature is driving a 'hopeful shift' across European landscapes.
It claims that rewilding across Europe is gaining momentum with a return of iconic species, and the restoration of dynamic, self sustaining ecosystems.
Rewilding Europe's latest annual review has showcased a year of 'meaningful progress' that illustrates how 'natural intelligence' is being harnessed to reshape landscapes, inspire communities, and address pressing ecological and societal challenges.
According to Rewilding Europe, natural processes are being given space to thrive across Europe.
The report has highlighted the resurgence, showing how rewilding is moving from the margins to the mainstream, delivering tangible outcomes for nature, climate, and people.
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The executive director of Rewilding Europe, Frans Schepers outlined how natural process have shaped and sustained life on Earth 'for millions of years'.
'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,' Schepers said.
The group has said that it's report 'is filled' with examples of what happens when human beings trust in nature's resilience.
It highlights milestones across ten European landscapes, from restoring free flowing rivers that reduce floods and droughts, to the return of European bison, wild horses, and vultures that help restore essential natural processes.
The report also takes a closer look at how rewilding is unlocking land for nature, harnessing new legislation, restoring ecological abundance, and advancing wildlife-smart communities that are pioneering new ways of living with nature, economically, culturally, and socially.
Rewilding Europe has said that it's aim is to make Europe a 'wilder place', with more space for wildlife and natural processes.
It believes that wild nature should be valued and treated as an essential element of a prosperous and healthy society.
