Tag: species of the month

Rewilding Species of the Month: The Mountain Hare

1 April 2026

Some species play a key role in rewilding: altering landscapes, restoring ecosystems and/or creating balance through predation. This month, however, we focus on a species for whom rewilding could be the key to their survival on our shores – the mountain hare. The mountain hare is the UK’s only native hare and has been here…
Rewilding Species of the Month: The White Stork

2 March 2026

Our rewilding species this month, the White Stork, is a brilliant ambassador for species reintroduction. This beautiful bird is large enough to spot without the need for binoculars as it stands proudly on one bright red leg or congregates with others to draw graceful circles in the skies. It is a friendly species, happy to…
Rewilding Species Of The Month: Sphagnum Moss

3 February 2026

Being hailed across the internet as a ‘Miracle Moss’, ‘Nature’s Superpower’ and even ‘The Most Important Plant on Earth’ it’s about time that sphagnum enjoyed its place in the spotlight as our Rewilding Species of the Month. Although it is not strictly speaking a species but a genus (a family of closely related species), I’m sure that sphagnum…
Rewilding Species of the Month: The Boar

1 December 2025

The boar plays an incredible role in our ecosystems. Unfortunately, especially with current laws set against reintroduction, we are sorely missing this keystone species.
Rewilding Species Of The Month: The Oak

3 November 2025

Oak trees have always been entwined with human life, building our ships, flavouring our whisky, and structuring our steeples for centuries. Throughout history, the great oak has sheltered both our princes and our paupers and thousands of non-human species too
Rewilding Species of the Month: Bats

1 October 2025

October seems the ideal time to celebrate bats as our rewilding species of the month. They will soon be emerging in window displays of Halloween bat bunting and, if you’re lucky, your local bakers may even be serving gingerbread bats. Extended nights can also mean you’re more likely to spot a bat in the wild…
Rewilding Species of the Month: The Eurasian Lynx

1 September 2025

As part of the UK’s ecological heritage, the Eurasian lynx has earned its place as our rewilding species of the month. Although lost to us around 1,300 years ago, through habitat destruction and hunting, these tufty eared beauties managed to cling on elsewhere in Europe. Is it time we brought them back here as well?
Rewilding Species of the Month: Seagulls

2 August 2025

This title will annoy some readers since, strictly speaking, there is no such thing as a seagull – there are herring gulls and black-headed gulls and common gulls and a whole host of other species of gull but no such thing as a seagull (what would Jonathan Livingston say?) but the different varieties of gull are all…
Rewilding Species of the Month: Dragonflies

1 July 2025

One of the highlights of our visit to the Moor Barton rewilding project was when we entered a newly created wetland area and were met with a flurry of odonata activity (dragonflies and damselflies). It was a sign that this is truly a landscape that is working for nature.
Rewilding Species of the Month: The Otter

2 June 2025

The otter has quite rightly earned its place in the rewilding species of the month spotlight. In both literature and folklore, otters are often presented as helpful souls: coming to the rescue and giving support in a character’s hour of need. Now, as the planet warms, we are finding that they are living up to…