The Danube Delta is a complex network of river channels, wetlands, marshes, inter-channel islands and riparian forests. No matter the season, the region hums, thrums and squawks with life. Here, restoration works are focused on reversing years

#13 - Southern Carpathians - Romania 🇷🇴

Mar 25th, 2024 44m 15s

The Southern Carpathians of Romania are at the tip of Europe’s third-longest mountain chain. Here, ancient woodland cascades over the hillsides and the full suite of apex predators still roam amongst the trees. For many years, there has been

#12 Central Apennines - Italy 🇮🇹

Feb 26th, 2024 48m 49s

The Central Apennines are just a couple of hours from Rome, and yet this is a landscape where Italian wolves roam, Marsican brown bears awake from season-long slumbers and native crayfish gather in crystal clear pools.The team here is absolute

#11 LIFE Lynx - Slovenia 🇸🇮

Jan 29th, 2024 46m 15s

Whilst Eurasian lynx still have strongholds in the east of their range, subpopulations in western Europe have long been under threat. In the Dinaric Alps of Slovenia, these elusive felines are now considered endangered.So how do you go about s

#10 Velebit Mountains - Croatia 🇭🇷

Nov 30th, 2023 38m 15s

The Velebit Mountains are a 145km long mountain chain in Croatia. On the face of it, these forested hillsides seem like a rich wilderness area, but beneath the canopy, humans have shaped the land and the array of animals that live here.The Rew

#9 Lille Vildmose - Denmark 🇩🇰

Oct 30th, 2023 42m 32s

Lille Vildmose is Denmark's biggest protected area and home to northwestern Europe's largest raised bog. This is a vital store for both carbon and water.As with many ecosystems across the continent, it has been exploited by humans over past ce

#8 Meuse Valley River Park - The Netherlands 🇳🇱

Sep 30th, 2023 39m 15s

The Meuse Valley River Park is a pioneering partnership in the southern tip of the Netherlands. Here, an unlikely collaboration between miners & ecologists is working hard to rewild a river.The different stakeholders have come together to pave

#7 Knepp Wildland - England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Aug 28th, 2023 42m 13s

Knepp Wildland has become one of the most important areas in Britain for breeding birds. It's brimming with butterflies and humming with crickets. It's bucking the trend of biodiversity declines across the board.Why?Because the team here has

#6 Grote Netewoud - Belgium 🇧🇪

Jun 26th, 2023 40m 12s

Grote Netewoud is a rewilding area in the heart of one of Europe's most densely populated countries. Here, Belgium's largest nature organisation, Natuurpunt, is restoring the natural flow of water to allow the return of alluvial forest.This s

#5 Greater Côa Valley - Portugal 🇵🇹

May 29th, 2023 39m 48s

The Greater Côa Valley is a 120,000-hectare watershed where rewilding is helping create a healthy, natural corridor for some of the country's most iconic species.The Rewilding Portugal team is working to improve co-existence between predators

#4 Tour du Valat - France 🇫🇷

Apr 30th, 2023 38m 34s

Tour du Valat is a private research institute that owns and manages land on the French Camargue. These Mediterranean wetlands are rich in life thanks to a patchwork of habitats created by river, tide, wind and wave.From the iconic Greater Flam

#3 Iberian Highlands - Spain 🇪🇸

Mar 27th, 2023 38m 9s

Iberian Highlands is 850,000 hectares of some of Spain's best-kept wild space. It hosts as-far-as-the-eye-can-see forests, towering geological wonders and strangely flat Mediterranean steppe.There are, however, some important levels of the tro

#2 Seawilding - Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Feb 27th, 2023 37m 36s

On the west coast of Scotland, by the shores of Loch Craignish, a community has come together to help restore their marine environment. When deciding on how to put something back, they identified two priority marine features they could do some

#1 Affric Highlands - Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Jan 30th, 2023 35m 8s

Whilst many visitors come to Scotland for romantic notions of wildness, the truth is, ecologically speaking, it's a massively nature-depleted nation. The Caledonian Forest, Scotland’s native pinewoods, once stretched over much of the land but h

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Series Introduction

Jan 25th, 2023 1m 35s

The Rewild Podcast will bring monthly stories of nature recovery from Rewilding Europe’s pioneering Landscapes and European Rewilding Network.Episode 1, Affric Highlands, coming 30th January, 2023.

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