Europe is home to many large wild open spaces but it used to be home to a lot more. As the human population has grown over Europe, we have displaced many of our native animals. Thankfully not ...

In the foothills of the western Alps in southeastern France, horned alpine ibex roam the limestone cliffs of a smaller mountain range known as the Dauphiné Alps, a region once home to thriving ...

‘Measuring Rewilding Progress’ - A new publication in the leading biology journal Philosophical Transactions B takes a closer look at the science of ‘rewilding’ ‘Measuring Rewilding Progress’ - A new ...

It is now home to two bison, a male and a female The Hunedoara Zoo in the Romanian Carpathians is now home to two recently relocated bison. This is the first step toward establishing the zoo as a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. PARIS — Restoring wild forests, peat bogs and wetlands on Europe's borders would establish defensive barriers that are hard to ...

Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. He has spent much of his life in the shadow of the Dauphiné Alps in ...

A project in Spain is bringing Przewalski’s horse to a sparsely populated region to help stem out-of-control fires and boost the local economy. Rewilding Spain is attempting to rebuild ecological ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Blink and you miss her: Vírgula shoots out of the box she was held in and dashes to freedom. Her distinctive pointy ears and ...

Europe's abandoned farmlands could find new life through rewilding, a movement to restore ravaged landscapes to their wilderness before human intervention. A quarter of the European continent, 117 ...

The chirp of cicadas ripples through the pine forest, carried along on the same breeze as the scent of lavender and wild thyme — with nearly no trace of man. The Grand Barry nature reserve in France’s ...

An innovative concept for returning a landscape to its palaeolithic past state was initially a success but became a harsh lesson in ...

Spanish photographer Jon A. Juárez won the Rewilding Europe Award for 2025 for his entry, “Comeback of the Atlantic Sturgeon.” Juáurez’s work was praised for its artistic quality and storytelling ...