Rewilding Britain (a national campaign charity)
Rewilding Britain is our national rewilding charity. It’s important that rewilding is done by experts, you can’t just release beavers anywhere, so let’s leave it people who know what they are doing!
This organisation is campaigning for large-scale efforts to rewild at least 1% of Britain (by leaving nature alone and not using it for development) with a development for governments to rewild 30% of land.
The site has tips on how to make your garden wilder. Read more on pet-friendly gardens and humane slug/snail deterrents and never use netting. Also read about wildlife-friendly ponds.
Top tips include:
- Garden organically (you can recycle empty chemical bottles, but take half-empty ones to hazardous waste for recycling, don’t pour them down drains.
- Leave out logs and fallen leaves, and build hedgehog highways (you can close the holes up during the day to keep pets safe, as hogs are nocturnal).
- Get together with others in your Rewilding Network to share information, and make new friends.
- Create spaces for wildlife if you border a nature reserve. The charity encourages neighbours to form rewilding clusters so wildlife have larger areas of land. If you own land from 10 to 40 hectares (land or water) get in touch for help and advice.
