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New blog: Learning from Dutch Rewilding pioneers at Gelderse Poort

Nacho Villar has written a blog about the wildE workshop in April which shared learnings from the pioneering rewilding of Gelderse Poort. 

Give it a read here and share your thoughts!

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Make your views heard with Rewilding Voices

Rewilding Voices is a series filmed discussions with small groups of selected participants about rewilding in relation to different topics (such as agriculture, economy, etc).

During the next three years, we will host at least 10 discussions that will contribute to the debate around rewilding, bringing together different views from wildE partners and other relevant stakeholders in order to explore possibilities and paths for its upscaling.

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Stakeholders are invited to collaborate in Rewilding Voices. They are invited to participate as co-designers of one particular discussion, to bring a particular topic, and/or to show interest to be contacted for giving  their views around a specific topic.

Contact us if you'd like to get involved.

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Promote your project outputs through our new Knowledge Repository, launching 2024

As part of the wildE project we're building a Knowledge Repository that will collate and share resources relevant to rewilding. By 'resources' we mean project outputs and deliverables that others can use to help benefit their own work. Examples might include tools, guidance, training materials, datasets, documents and more.

Our aim is to bring together practical knowledge on rewilding to make it easier to find and in doing so, help projects reach more users and achieve greater impact for their work.

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The wildE Knowledge Repository is being developed by Oppla, the EU Repository of Nature-based Solutions. It will be integrated as part of the Oppla web-platform for long-term hosting; meaning that it will continue to be managed and updated beyond the wildE project itself - giving perennity to the outputs of any projects wishing to contribute.

We'll keep you updated in the Knowledge Repository as it develops.

If you'd like to be among the first to feature and benefit from the launch publicity later this year, then you can start adding your project outputs now. To do so:

  1. Visit Oppla and create a user account
  2. Visit the Oppla Marketplace and share your product by filling in the online form
  3. At the bottom of the form, tick the box to confirm that you would like to add your project output to the wildE Knowledge Repository

We'll take care of the rest and let you know when the Knowledge Repository is ready for launch (Autumn 2024).

If you need support or have any questions, contact Jagger Biggs at Oppla: jagger@oppla.eu

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Paul Mahony
May 10, 2024, 9:43 am

Content shared with the wildE Knowledge Repository will also be shared with the new EU Science Service web-platform, which is in development and launching in 2027.

The Science Service is part of the EU Knowledge Centre for Biodiversity, which exists to facilitate knowledge sharing and foster cross-sectorial dialogue for EU policy making in biodiversity and related fields.

The Science Service is being developed by the BioAgora project, funded by the European Union. For more information visit www.bioagora.eu

Do you work in communications? If so, let's talk!

If you work in communications on topics related to rewilding then get in touch. We’re keen to collaborate.

We all know that the communications environment can be ‘noisy’ with lots of projects, networks and initiatives all trying to be heard. We also know that the messages being conveyed are important and need to achieve impact if we’re going to help bring about the transformative changes that are needed for people and nature.

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wildE is just one project amongst many others in this space. So rather than try to compete with others for attention, we want to collaborate and help amplify the work of the rewilding community in general, so that together we can reach a larger audience and achieve greater impact.

As a starting point we can:

  • Promote your news, events and outputs through our web-platform and social media. We’re moving to Instagram very soon and have some exciting plans for that, which we’d be happy to discuss with you.
  • Give a platform to members of your community who might be interested in communicating with wildE stakeholders at our events and webinars (e.g. as speakers) or as part of our new Rewilding Voices programme, which is coming soon...
  • Leverage our links with the scientific community and provide expert input on the topic of climate-smart rewilding. For example: we can produce blogs, articles and other content on this topic for your communication channels, such as newsletters.
  • Collaborate in pitching press releases to news media on the topic of rewilding.
  • If you’re working on a project, we can also help to disseminate your outputs and provide tracking information that you can include in your project reporting.

So if you work in communications, get in touch and let’s talk! 

wildE communications are led by Jagger Biggs at Oppla. You can reach Jagger here: jagger@oppla.eu

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UPDATE: The Baixo Sabor Rewilding Case

The area of the Baixo Sabor Rewilding Case has experienced widespread rural exodus since the 1960s. Today, the landscape is a complex mosaic of intensive olive and almond groves, small fallow fields, timber forests and abandoned croplands.

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The CIBIO team uses this Case for investigating the capacity of terrestrial ecosystems to recover from their history of disturbance without any sort of human intervention. Our goal is to provide a spatially- and temporally-explicit model that predicts passive rewilding trajectories in the near future based on the effects of local-scale factors (namely time since cropland abandonment, land use intensity, topography and microclimate). Since November, our PhD student Antonio Vaz Pato has collected data from 110 plots representing different successional stages in the area. These data will allow portraying abandoned cropland succession in terms of composition, structure and regeneration along its different phases from shrublands to Mediterranean oak woods (see photo sequence). Our goal is to develop a better understanding of the ecological dynamics and processes driving ecosystem recovery within such a fragmented landscape, as well as a decision-making tool to aid with implementing restoration strategies.

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James
August 24, 2023, 9:42 am

The image in the post above shows an image sequence of successional stages at Baixo Sabor, ranging from initial shrublands 5-10 years after abandonment (1) until climax vegetation with junipers or oaks.

High Tatras National Park

Natural disturbances such as windstorms or bark beetle outbreaks are an important part of the forest dynamics in the Rewilding Case High Tatras National Park.

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Understanding post-disturbance forest recovery is crucial for evaluating the effects of disturbances on biomass accumulation and structural diversity, especially during the ongoing transition from formerly managed to non-managed forest. The CZU team has launched their field campaign in late June in order to monitor the process of forest recovery. The field work includes hiking and collecting data under highly demanding conditions in areas such as the one shown in the photo above.

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James
August 24, 2023, 9:31 am

Spruce mountains are forests recovering from a bark beetle outbreak in the Rewilding Case National Park High Tatras.

Rewilding Cases meetings

During the past few months, several groups of ecologists, economists and social scientists have gathered online to discuss the socio-economic aspects of each of the eight Rewilding Cases. These meetings have allowed the participants to better know each other, creating a momentum for collaboration and spurring the WP2 activities which are now progressing at a good pace.

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The related Work Plan for the Rewilding Cases is ready for download.

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