BES-Rewilding Group

Update: BES Annual Meeting in Edinburgh

The Rewilding SIG will be running a 1 hour lunchtime workshop on careers in nature recovery with a focus on the private sector. Our workshop last year was extremely popular.

We hope to see you all in Edinburgh on 15-18 December this year.

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#Rewilding

Restoration hub UKCEH aim to co-produce with the nature recovery practice community, a free to use data and knowledge hub.  The platform will meet the needs and requirements of different stakeholders through activiti...

New opportunity 🔔

Mapping rewilding and restoration projects in the UK: The UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology is starting a project to map rewilding and restoration projects in the UK.

For more information, see
www.ceh.ac.uk/nc-uk/restor...

September is here😎.

MoRE workshop is here.

See post for details.

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#BES

Rewilding should be central to global restoration efforts Rewilding should be central to the massive restoration efforts needed to overcome the global biodiversity crisis and enhancing the biosphere’s capacit…

And rewilding? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

@jcsvenning.bsky.social @rewildingbritain.org.uk @rewrite-eu.bsky.social @bes-rewildinggroup.bsky.social @sarakinguk.bsky.social @highlandsrewilding.bsky.social @rewildingeurope.bsky.social @ark-rewildingnl.bsky.social

Have a great weekend😁

#Rewilding
#BES

Sandown council backs Wildheart Animal Sanctuary rewilding plans Wildheart Animal Sanctuary plans unveiled to create elk rewilded wetlands and research school.

Plans to create an International School of Rewilding (ISR) featuring elk on the Isle of Wight have been backed by councillors.

Read more here:

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

cc: @rewildingbritain.org.uk

YouTube video by Rewilding Britain Wild By Nature: Rewilding Britain’s Strategy 2025–2030

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🌱 Excited to launch “Wild by Nature” – our bold new 5 years Strategy to rewild 30% of Britain’s land & seas by 2030! 🌍✨

Watch the animation 👉 youtu.be/oa6Ftpf-w9g?...

Read the full strategy 👉 www.rewildingbritain.org.uk/about-us/our...

Would love to hear your thoughts! 💬🦋
#WildByNature

Check out this new paper from Steve Carver @landethics.bsky.social

It’s great to see Rewilding maturing over the past few years, but there is still a lot of work to be done, especially in the aspect of monitoring.

Mark your calendars 🗓️ ……..

🌿 Exciting Announcement! 🌱

Join us for the Movement and Rewilding Ecology (MoRE) Workshop on September 22, 2025, at BES, 42 Wharf Rd, London! 🌍

Powered by the #BES-rewilding @besmovesig.bsky.social SIGs.

Link to Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/more-movem...

#BritishEcologicalSociety

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🌿 Join us at the BES Annual Meeting in Edinburgh (December 15-18)!

The Rewilding SIG committee will host a 1-hour workshop on careers in nature recovery. Don’t miss out! 🌍✨

#BES2023
#NatureRecovery #NatureCareersWorkshop

Last week I was at the @bes-rewildinggroup.bsky.social workshop in Northumberland 🌿 Great to connect with researchers & practitioners from northern England & Scotland to discuss UK #rewilding- challenges, new tech 🎮, long-term monitoring, & the value of collaboration! Lots to think about! 🤔

Thoughts???💭

Tom Jameson from @forestresearchuk.bsky.social kicks off our #ExploringTheScienceOfRewilding @britishecologicalsociety.org event, organised by @bes-rewildinggroup.bsky.social & @northwildlife.bsky.social. Exciting couple of days coming up!

Next up on #ExploringTheScienceOfRewilding -@sahranhiggins.bsky.social @rewildingbritain.org.uk . Great talk about the RB monitoring framework and early work from pilot studies.

@bes-rewildinggroup.bsky.social
@britishecologicalsociety.org
@northwildlife.bsky.social

Now moving onto the @northwildlife.bsky.social #rewilding project at West Chevington, former open cast coal mine

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@britishecologicalsociety.org

New Paper Alert 🔔

Want to learn more about agent-based modelling?

Check out this new paper on the reintroduction of wild boar in Scotland.

eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

In the suburbs of Derby, the city council and Derbyshire Wildlife Trust are helping turn a former municipal golf course and park from a manicured grassland into Britain’s largest urban rewilding project.

www.rewildingbritain.org.uk/why-rewild/r...

CC: @rewildingbritain

#RewildingStories

Scientists’ new blueprint integrates rewilding and agriculture to tackle biodiversity crisis Scientists including James Bullock of the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology have put forward a blueprint for integrating nature recovery and farming.

Scientists’ new blueprint integrates rewilding and agriculture to tackle biodiversity crisis.

UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology: www.ceh.ac.uk/press/scient...

#Rewilding
#BritishEcologicalSociety

Sorry I am not working today, I am busy watching a ‘live stream’ 🤗.

#OneWithNature
#NatureAndHealth
#ThinkRewilding

Have a good day and #ThinkRewilding😎

Attenborough’s Ocean is the film I’ve been waiting my whole career for – now the world must act on its message | George Monbiot The documentary shows the damage that fishing does to our planet. So why does the industry still hold governments to ransom? asks Guardian columnist George Monbiot

The plunder of our seas by industrial fishing is a monstrosity in which almost everyone unwittingly collaborates. For decades this truth has been deliberately hidden from us. Now at last the consensus is cracking.
This week's column.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Rewilding SIG PhD Coffee Morning - British Ecological Society Join the Rewilding SIG to meet your peers, share your work and generate new ideas.

Upcoming events and opportunities:

>>Online PhD coffee morning (18th June, 10:00-10:30) provides a great time to chat informally about rewilding, PhDs, and any ongoing work, fieldwork plans, or new papers you would like to promote!

Register at www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/rewi...

A twisty old tree with lots of branches and green leaves, with cow parsley in the foreground

A beautiful twisty old tree for
todays #ThickTrunkTuesday
Happy trunking everyone!
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#TreeTuesday
#ThickTrunkTuesday
#TreeClub #Trees #Nature

Nature can take a broken wasteland like a Bord Na Móna cutover bog & create amazing habitats like this reed bed. Could this #PublicLand be home to species like Bittern or Marsh Harrier one day? #RestoreNature

"Inspirational" Harborough rewilding scheme set to expand One a day of bad news for the environment, here something more encouraging from HFM News : An ambitious re-wilding project near Market Harb...

"Everyone we have met has been blown away by our investment and our ambition – words like unprecedented, inspirational and excellent place leadership are being used." #rewilding #harborough

A bulbous white mushroom on a wet red log among ferns is covered in perfect sparkly droplets

Here’s a sparkly forest mushroom mostly for amyb8888.bsky.social

From the rustle of beavers in Devon’s rivers to golden eagles soaring over Scotland’s Highlands, #rewilding is breathing life back into the UK’s landscapes.

Image Credit: #RewildingBritain