Rewilding Britain

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Rewilding Britain is a charity started in 2015 to promote rewilding across Great Britain. It is registered in England, Wales and Scotland. One of the founders was Guardian journalist George Monbiot, who wrote about rewilding in his 2013 book Feral. The group supports bringing back predators like lynx and wolves, which were hunted to extinction in Britain long ago. Farmers have often opposed these ideas. In 2018, Prime Minister Theresa May launched a 25-year environmental plan that encouraged rewilding, including plans to reintroduce beavers and to recognise the Knepp Wildland project as a leader in lowland rewilding. In 2020, Rewilding Britain called for natural regeneration to be the default method for creating new woodlands under the future Environmental Land Management Scheme, unless trees would not establish or would take too long to grow.