Today, expanded rewilding efforts in Romania’s Southern Carpathians are enriching biodiversity and bringing tangible benefits to local communities. By showcasing these efforts and expanding participation, the newly launched Rewilding Romania website will support this rising trend.
A window into Romania’s rewilding
Developing and cultivating positive attitudes toward nature and nature restoration is critical to the success of rewilding efforts and restoration. The development of the rewilding movement. A look at Europe’s booming rewilding portfolio Rewilding the landscapea dedicated website is helping Build engagementto inform and inspire people of all backgrounds by showcasing the excitement, hope, opportunities and wide-ranging benefits of rewilding.
People in Romania and around the world can now take a closer look at the work of Romania's reconstruction teams with the launch of a dedicated new project. Rewilding Romania website. By catalyzing the team's efforts and providing an insight into the landscape and stunning wildlife, the site will help deliver the vision for rewilding the Southern Carpathians and upscale rewilding within the country and further afield. The website consists of existing Rebuilding the Danube Delta Website that describes efforts to rewild the Danube Delta landscape, part of which is located in Romania.
“Our mission is to demonstrate the benefits of rewilding for nature and people,” said Marina Drug, executive director of Rewilding Romania. “This new site will be a place where visitors can learn about nature restoration and the importance of nurturing environments where people and healthy wild nature can thrive together. We also hope to work with Rewilding Europe to support the efforts of other rewilding initiatives and the site will also Serves as a platform for productive collaboration.”
Staffan Widstrand
Taking rewilding to the next level
Combining beautiful images and insightful copy, the bilingual Rewilding Romania website encourages Romanian and international visitors to explore and gain a deeper understanding of the work being done by local rewilding teams, providing a fresh and more hopeful perspective on the landscape.
Over the past decade, Europe’s rewilding and WWF Romania Successfully relocated 105 European bison to Romania's Charcu Mountains – part of the mountain range southern carpathians A rewilded landscape where bison have not roamed freely for at least 250 years. Today, the thriving bison populations established through these translocations are growing naturally and providing wide range of benefits The scale continues to expand. now it Has more than 200 peoplemore than half of which were born to these animals in the wild.
Rewilding Romania was launched in late 2022 and is currently focused on European bison recovery and wider rewilding efforts in the Southern Carpathians Go to the next level. Discussions with both state and local hunting associations are strengthening collaboration to ensure that the growing bison herd can continue to safely expand its geographic range. The Romanian rewilding team is also exploring opportunities to expand the return of wildlife and foster a culture where people and wildlife can thrive together, through measures such as enhancing coexistence, encouraging wider participation in rewilding, supporting the development of natural economies, and revitalizing rivers. For the benefit of nature and local communities.
Catalin Josan
Increase engagement
as an iconic cornerstone herbivore, it has made extraordinary return In recent decades, the European bison has been the flagship species of Romania’s rewilding programme. “Bison recovery and bison restoration activities in Southern Carpathians region boosted”Zimbruera beautiful documentary from an award-winning French filmmaker Emmanuel Rondo. It intimately depicts people's feelings about the European bison's return to the landscape and has now been viewed more than 16,000 times online. Emanuel is now working on another documentary on rewilding the Southern Carpathians – One of the series About Rewilding Europe's Rewilding Landscapes – to be published in 2025.
The Rewilding Romania website is a follow-up to the launch of Rewilding Europe Rewilding Rhodope, Rewilding the Oder Delta, Rebuilding the Danube Delta, Rebuilding the Apennines, Rebuilding Portugal, Rebuilding Sweden, Rewilding Spainand Rewilding Velebit website. Visit them and find out more about how our rewilding teams work at the forefront of nature restoration and build engagement with rewilding across Europe.
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