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Rewilding Legal Innovation Lab
Rewilding often requires working within legal systems that weren’t designed for ecological restoration, dynamic landscapes or long-term nature recovery. Rewilding projects frequently encounter legal questions, regulatory uncertainty and governance challenges that existing frameworks do not easily answer.
Many of these challenges aren’t isolated problems affecting individual projects: they reflect wider systemic issues that influence how law shapes what is possible for nature recovery.
The Rewilding Legal Innovation Lab exists to explore these challenges and develop practical solutions.
Our Approach
"Our approach is practical and iterative. We work alongside projects, to test ideas, learn from experience and share what we discover so others can benefit."
Elsie BlackshawDirector of Legal, The Lifescape Project
Our Vision
Through our pilot projects and research, we can identify opportunities for legal and policy innovation to support rewilding at greater scale: from improving regulatory interpretation and governance approaches, to exploring new legal frameworks better suited to ecological recovery.
Our aim is not simply to help projects navigate existing systems, but to create legal systems capable of supporting large scale rewilding into the future.
We’re always looking to understand the most pressing legal issues for rewilders, so we’d welcome your thoughts on areas we should work on next.
Andrea Zampatti
