Legal Guidance for Rewilders

Understanding and navigating the law is a challenge faced by all rewilding projects. Legal requirements can be complex, difficult to interpret, and are rarely written with rewilding in mind.

To address this challenge, we’ve partnered with Rewilding Britain and Rewilding Europe to develop practical guidance and tools to help rewilding practitioners navigate legal requirements and regulatory processes with confidence.

The guidance currently covers England & Wales, Scotland, Italy, Portugal, Poland, Romania, and Germany, with topics ranging from legal regimes applicable to species reintroductions to protecting rewilding land into the future.

Please note: The material in the guidance notes is accurate as of the date specified in the notes and may not reflect subsequent changes to law or policy, and also does not necessarily deal with every important topic or cover every aspect of the topics with which it deals. It is not designed to provide legal or other advice. The current legal position should be checked before relying on it, and specific legal advice should also be obtained.