Project Rewild was founded in 2018 with the mission of making nature connection, learning, and play accessible to all.

Each year, we engage with thousands of children, adults, families, and communities, providing opportunities to get outside, connect with nature, protect the environment, and thrive together.

“For me there is nothing more pressing, nothing more important than remembering that we are part of nature, and not separate from it. Our very survival as a species depends on it.”

Luke Funnell - Founder and Director

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.

Humans need rewilding in similarly dramatic ways. Read more here: Rewilding