Rewilding Challenge Fund

Rewilding Britain is offering a £100,000 grant to support one large-scale rewilding project.

The Rewilding Challenge Fund encourages community groups, farmers, landowners, and land managers to work collaboratively and ‘Think Big, Act Wild’.

Rewilding is a conservation approach aimed at restoring and revitalizing ecosystems by reintroducing native species, re-establishing natural processes, and reducing human intervention in order to create self-sustaining and biodiverse environments.

The fund will nurture innovative and pioneering initiatives that show maximum potential for upscaling rewilding on land and at sea, and demonstrate the extensive economic and social benefits of rewilding to local communities, as well as to biodiversity.

Projects must be:

• based in Britain (England, Wales or Scotland)
• part of/​eligible to join Rewilding Britain’s Rewilding Network
• at least 1,000ha/10 km² in size (the majority of which is contiguous and proposed for rewilding).

Expressions of interest should be submitted by the 11th October 2024.  Shortlisted projects will be invited to submit a full application.

The first-ever Rewilding Challenge fund winner was Kent Wildlife Trust.  The Trust introduced the UK’s only free-roaming bison with the aim of rewilding tens of thousands of hectares across South East England – connecting a range of habitats, creating green corridors for wildlife, and boosting eco-tourism.

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