UK Rewilding Organisations & Charities

The UK umbrella body coordinating the Rewilding Network and campaigning for 30% of Britain's land and sea restored by 2030.

Photo: James Shooter / scotlandbigpicture.com, courtesy of Rewilding Britain

Scottish charity restoring the Caledonian forest through its Dundreggan estate, volunteer weeks and the Affric Highlands landscape partnership.

Photo: © Trees for Life

A federation of 46 local trusts managing around 2,300 nature reserves and campaigning to put nature into recovery across the UK.

Photo: Luke Massey / 2020VISION, courtesy of The Wildlife Trusts

A young national charity buying lowland English farmland and returning it to nature, starting with its 460-acre Heal Somerset site.

Photo: courtesy of Heal Rewilding

The UK's largest woodland conservation charity, caring for more than 1,000 woods and fighting for ancient woodland since 1972.

Photo: Pete Cairns / naturepl.com, courtesy of the Woodland Trust

The Scottish charity behind the Northwoods Rewilding Network, connecting 100+ farms, crofts and community woodlands.

Photo: courtesy of SCOTLAND: The Big Picture

The wild places charity caring for Ben Nevis, Sandwood Bay and other iconic wild land, and running the John Muir Award.

Photo: courtesy of the John Muir Trust

The continent-wide organisation working across 11 rewilding landscapes and funding wildlife comebacks from bison to vultures.

Photo: courtesy of Rewilding Europe

The charity restoring beavers to British rivers, combining science, film and practical support for the landowners who share their catchments.

Photo: courtesy of Beaver Trust

Britain's largest habitat restoration project: four neighbouring land managers restoring 600+ square kilometres to a 200-year vision.

Photo: courtesy of Cairngorms Connect

The charity behind Britain's best known lowland rewilding project, sharing 25 years of learning from 3,500 acres in West Sussex.

Photo: courtesy of the Knepp Wildland Foundation

A Devon charity growing native trees from locally collected seed in volunteer nurseries and planting them back across Dartmoor.

Photo: courtesy of Moor Trees

A young charity buying parcels of the Somerset Levels and letting them rewild as a network of lightly managed wild stepping stones.

Photo: courtesy of Somerset Wildlands

A privately owned 750-acre estate in north Cornwall restoring wood pasture, beaver wetland and rainforest, and home to The Cornwall Stork Project.

Photo: courtesy of Wild Hamatethy

A 2,500 acre Yorkshire Dales estate restoring former farmland with 330,000 native trees, new wetlands and reintroduced beavers.

Photo: courtesy of Broughton Sanctuary

A North Yorkshire outfit that buys tired land and stays with it, caring for 600+ acres across 18 restored sites since 2010.

Photo: courtesy of Make It Wild

The 4,000 acre Norfolk project made famous by Springwatch, running rewilding, regenerative farming and conservation side by side.

Photo: courtesy of Wild Ken Hill

A mass-owned Scottish company restoring land at Bunloit on Loch Ness and Tayvallich in mid-Argyll, with intensive carbon and biodiversity monitoring.

Photo: courtesy of Highlands Rewilding

A for-profit company restoring whole landscapes at Boothby Wildland, High Fen and Harold's Park, funded through carbon and biodiversity markets.

Photo: courtesy of Nattergal

The Welsh charity behind Cwm Doethie, 1,195 acres in the Cambrian Mountains secured in 2026 and the largest rewilding site in Wales.

Tir Natur

Cynghrair Ailwylltio Cymru, the coalition launched in 2026 to put rewilding into Welsh policy, and one we are a core member of.

The Grange Project

Coetir Anian, restoring 350 acres of blanket bog and upland at Bwlch Corog near Machynlleth since 2007, with Konik horses and a remarkable education programme.

Cambrian Wildwood

The twenty-year effort that made beavers a protected native species in Wales in 2026, led by North Wales Wildlife Trust for the five Welsh Wildlife Trusts.

Chris Robbins / North Wales Wildlife Trust