Rewilding news

Tom Bowser asks if nature recovery legislation will be transformative – or another missed opportunity? I love Scotland, but sometimes my country saddens me. We are a nature-depleted nation within a nature-depleted island. Our seas are hard-fished, our land hard-farmed. The badger is our largest terrestrial predator; anything bigger we’ve killed off and resolutely refuse […]

‘A win for people-led rewilding’ as MSPs in the Scottish Parliament vote to create a new hutting law compelling the Scottish Government to publish a model lease for hutting on public land. Last night (4 November) MSPs in the Scottish Parliament voted to create a new hutting law compelling the Scottish Government to publish a […]

New law says large landowners need to set out biodiversity plans, in ‘big step towards a Rewilding Nation’ Yesterday MSPs in the Scottish Parliament voted to create a law obliging the owners of large landholdings to publish plans on how they will increase biodiversity, as part of the new Land Reform Bill – in what […]

High-profile campaign takes message to parliament in first event of its kind and follows public backing by Alan Cumming last week. Campaigners calling for Scotland to become the world’s first ‘Rewilding Nation’ have today (1 October) taken their message to the country’s politicians, in a colourful stunt outside Holyrood. More than 100 people – representing […]

The Traitors, X-Men and Avengers star announces his support for Rewilding Nation campaign to his 750,000 followers on Instagram. The Traitors, X-Men and Avengers star Alan Cumming has backed a campaign calling on the Scottish government to declare Scotland the world’s first Rewilding Nation and commit to rewilding 30% of the country’s land and seas. […]

The Scottish Rewilding Alliance hopes to inspire local community groups to help Scotland become the world’s first ‘Rewilding Nation’, with the launch of a practical new guide. The Scottish Rewilding Alliance hopes to inspire local community groups to help Scotland become the world’s first ‘Rewilding Nation’, with the launch of a practical new guide. Available […]

We welcome the Scottish Government’s interim evaluation of the Nature Restoration Fund, which highlights important progress but shows that current funding is insufficient to meet Scotland’s nature recovery goals. We urge all political parties to commit to restoring and significantly increasing the Fund in the next parliamentary session to secure lasting benefits for nature, climate, […]

Our response to the reshuffle announcement by the Scottish Government. In response to today’s reshuffle announcement by the Scottish Government, Karen Blackport, co-convenor of the Scottish Rewilding Alliance and chief executive of Bright Green Nature, said: “It’s shocking that, in the face of biodiversity and climate emergencies, the Scottish Government still has no nature minister. […]

A letter from the Scottish Government on the topic of beavers to Glen Affric.

By scrapping plans for a Galloway National Park, the Scottish Government has yet again proved it cannot successfully plot a path to a wilder Scotland. In response to today’s announcement by the Scottish Government on a new national park for Scotland, Karen Blackport, co-convenor of the Scottish Rewilding Alliance and chief executive of Bright Green […]

Today’s Programme for Government was a test of the Scottish Government’s willingness to set us on the pathway to a Rewilding Nation. This Programme for Government, with its reduced peatland and woodland restoration targets, weak commitments to consult on real protections for marine areas and nature targets that appear as an afterthought, fails that test.

It could take seven decades before large-scale nature restoration is underway across 30% of Scotland’s land, new figures from the Scottish Rewilding Alliance show.