Rewilding in Scotland

By funding this project you are contributing to their work. You will receive impact reports and measurements but you won't receive a carbon credit.

Established in 2008 by photographers, filmmakers and writers, SCOTLAND: The Big Picture became the first organisation in Scotland dedicated to communicating the benefits of rewilding and bringing the conversation into the mainstream. Their vision is of a vast network of rewilded land and water across Scotland, where wildlife flourishes and people thrive. Today they remain dedicated to making rewilding happen across Scotland as a solution to the growing climate and biodiversity crises — by influencing opinion and delivering practical change.

Climate breakdown demands natural solutions to habitat restoration and carbon storage. Rewilding is a vital tool in the fight against climate change, restoring ecosystem health and locking away carbon. Healthy native woodlands, peatlands, salt marshes, and seagrass meadows absorb huge amounts of CO2. When these living systems function properly, they can also reduce the impacts of flooding, drought, and wildfires. Rewilding offers us a more hopeful future for nature, climate and people.

The Rewilding Fund provides a pathway to tackle climate breakdown and ecological decline, by returning fully functioning wild ecosystems to thousands of acres across Scotland. All contributions to the Fund are invested in the restoration of natural habitats, either within the Northwoods Rewilding Network – a diverse group of land partners including farms, crofts, small estates and community landholdings – or in Loch Abar Mòr, a landscape-scale partnership in the west of Scotland, which brings together land managers, businesses and communities.

They record and track metrics against a range of Rewilding targets and baseline data, reporting annually on: - No. of Rewilding land partners - Area of land & water committed to rewilding - Area of land & water committed to rewilding (Scotland-wide) - Dashboard of rewilding interventions - Number of trees planted - Number of wetland features created - kilometres of hedgerows planted

23 May 2024

Highlands, Scotland