As Rewilding Europe celebrates its 15th anniversaryDay To mark the anniversary, our Annual Review 2025 reflects on the incredible journey that has helped transform rewilding from a bold idea to a growing movement to restore nature across Europe. Charting progress, impact and lessons learned, this groundbreaking publication marks the halfway point on our journey towards 2030 and looks ahead to an even more challenging future.
Looking back on 15 years of progress
Just 15 years ago, rewilding was a relatively new concept in Europe. Today, it is increasingly recognized as a reliable and effective approach to large-scale natural restoration. Since its founding in 2011, Rewilding Europe has worked with partners across the continent to demonstrate how nature can recover when given the space and opportunity to lead.
We are now pleased to announce our Annual Review 2025, which celebrates these developments. With a detailed overview of our work and impact over the past year, the review reflects 15 years of progress and growing momentum supporting rewilding as a practical and holistic solution to biodiversity loss, climate challenges, rural economic decline and the restoration of resilient ecosystems.
Read our 2025 Annual Review
“Our unique and progressive approach to nature restoration has helped transform wild environments from the margins to the mainstream of European conservation,” says Frans Schepers, Managing Director of Rewilding Europe. “As Europe spends billions of dollars responding to floods, droughts, wildfires and health impacts, we must realize that natural recovery is fundamental risk management. Restoring ecosystems through rewilding is one of the smartest preventive investments we can make.”
Take a look at the years that matter
This year’s review comes at a critical moment for our organization. This not only celebrates our 15th anniversary;Day It is also the halfway point of Rewilding Europe’s 10-year strategy (Strategy 2030). With five years to go until 2030, this review reviews progress towards our long-term goals and highlights how our work continues to evolve in response to new opportunities and challenges.
Featuring stunning photography, engaging design, infographics and in-depth storytelling with a variety of insightful and entertaining features, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the impact Rewilding Europe and its partners have had over the past year. Readers can explore the accomplishments of Restoration and its teams, as well as corporate advocacy, policy engagement, and efforts to expand the restoration movement. The review highlights highlights including the expansion of the European Rewilding Network, the growth of Europe’s young rewilding communities, plans for Wilder Parks and rewilding land facilities and the launch of free, public online rewilding courses.
The review also includes a special 15-year retrospective that traces the growth of Rewilding Europe and the wider Rewilding movement, from the first seeds of an idea in 2008 to today’s growing network of landscapes, partners, practitioners and supporters across Europe.
Thank you for helping us make Europe a better place
Rewilding Europe would like to thank all our partners, donors, investors, advisors, scientists, photographers, filmmakers, supporters and colleagues who have contributed to our work throughout 2025. Their expertise, dedication and belief in a wilder future continue to make large-scale natural restoration possible. If you are not already involved in the rewilding movement, please join us in our efforts to make Europe a wilder place.
While 2030 remains a key destination for Rewilding Europe, we are also starting to look further into the future. Building on the experience gained over the past 15 years, we have set out to establish a bold, long-term vision for Europe’s natural recovery, with 2040 as our next target.
As we celebrate 15 years of progress, we are confident that the most important chapter in Europe’s wildflower story is not yet over. Together, we will continue to work to accelerate nature’s recovery, strengthen the rewilding movement, and create a continent where people and nature can thrive together at scale.
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