What is Rewilding ?

We recognise now that mass industrialisation and mass agriculture has caused huge problems for the land and sea. Species have disappeared. Soil has become depleted. Pollution has been shown to have devastating consequences. The effects of climate change are starting to become tangible.

What has happened to the land, the species and the soil acts as a mirror for us. The land and the sea needs rewilding. What has happened to children, to young people and to adults is similarly devastating.

Rewilding is a way of supporting the land and sea to return to a better sense of balance, of giving space for the land to recover, of standing back and letting nature heal itself. Rewilding is a way of relinquishing human control, of repositioning humans so that we are a part of – and not apart from – nature. Rewilding is a way to help nature to thrive.

Rewilders understand how ecosystems have been damaged and they are proactive in finding ways to help nature to thrive again. Their actions - such as reintroducing wolves – are sometimes controversial but they have been shown to have dramatic impacts.

Education needs rewilding in similarly dramatic ways.

Follow Project rewild Director Dr Daniel Ford and his work to Rewild Education here: Rewilding Education - Our education system is deeply flawed