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World Rewilding Day: Rewilding Seminar and Short-movie Screening

20 March 2025 17:30 to 19:30 | Seminar

A European bison chewing on the leaves of a tree — European Bison. Photo: Stefan Stefanov / Rewilding Europe

In Europe and elsewhere, people face a wide range of challenges, including biodiversity decline, rising global temperatures, and declining opportunities for rural economies. Restoring European nature is not only an imperative for our landscapes, but now even a legal obligation under the EU Nature Restoration Regulation. Join us in celebrating World Rewilding Day to learn more about how rewilding can help address these challenges simultaneously in a cost-effective way.

Applied at scale, rewilding can help address the global challenges of biodiversity loss and climate change, and the effects that they carry. But what is rewilding?

Rewilding is an innovative approach to reviving wild nature by restoring natural processes, enabling them to shape land and sea and regenerate degraded landscapes without a human-defined end point. After kick-starting actions to create the right conditions, such as removing barriers from rivers or reintroducing species that have disappeared because of human actions, the goal is to eliminate human management or reduce it to the minimum.

Join this seminar organised by Rewilding Europe, in collaboration with Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in a changing Landscape (BECC), to celebrate World Rewilding Day. You will also hear about "Framtidens Skogar", a project by Rewilding Sweden, focused on engaging young people in exploring sustainable ways to manage our forests.

Fika is provided!

Register by 17 March

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Preliminary programme

17:30–17:55 Presentation on rewilding - Giulia Testa, Upscaling Manager at Rewilding Europe
18:00–18:20 Screening of movie: A New Path for the Velebit Mountains
18:20–18:35 Fika and mingle
18:35–18:50 Presentation on Framtidens Skogar - Philip Kjellstrom, School Educator at Rewilding Sweden and Student
18:50–19:00 Short talk by BECC-representative, TBA
19:00–19:30 Q&A, discussion and conclusion

More information

This event is a collaboration between Rewilding Europe and the strategic research area Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in a changing Landscape (BECC).