Rewilding news and blog

The Scottish Government is underfunding Scotland’s wildlife, warns the Scottish Rewilding Alliance today, following the release this week of the Scottish Government’s priorities for this session.

The Scottish Rewilding Alliance is calling on Scottish Ministers to convene a national Scottish Landscape Resilience Summit to bring together land managers, the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service, scientists and policymakers to develop a long-term strategy for adapting to Scotland’s growing wildfire risk.

We need wetter, more resilient landscapes using every tool at our disposal – before the next megafire ignites.

Tom Bowser of Argaty Red Kites, a conservationist, nature writer and rewilding land manager, is to be the new Co-Convenor of the Scottish Rewilding Alliance.

We need to restore and repair the missing and broken pieces of our ecosystems, and in doing so, rebuild and re-people our struggling rural areas with thriving, sustainable economies. But this vision requires political courage.

The Scottish Rewilding Alliance hosted a landmark national hustings on World Rewilding Day 2026, bringing together political leaders to debate the future of Scotland’s natural

Scotland’s government has made bold promises for nature. By 2030, we will be a nature positive country. By 2045, we will have regenerated and restored our biodiversity. Does Scotland’s new Land Use Strategy, published this week, provide a path to making these promises a reality?

Politicians from all major political parties are set to take part in the first ever hustings dedicated to debating rewilding issues, ahead of Scotland’s elections this May.

Scotland’s decades-old system of nature conservation designations is no longer always the right tool for large-scale nature recovery. In a changing climate, a static approach can unintentionally prevent nature from healing itself – holding back nature recovery.

Will the Natural Environment Bill prove a transformative act that delivers real change for nature or instead remain a grand set of unacted-upon intentions? The answer to that lies with Scotland’s politicians.