When a nuclear disaster empties a landscape of people, nature doesn’t politely wait for instructions. It moves in. After the 2011 meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan, entire ...

New research shows that the loss of large animals has had strong effects on ecosystem functions, and that reintroducing large animal faunas may restore biodiverse ecosystems. New research shows that ...

Farmers and landowners will need convincing that rewilding – bringing back iconic species such as wild lynx and boar into the countryside – is the right decision for their businesses post-Brexit.

Over the last decade, the UK has experienced some of the most significant and extreme flood events of the last 100 years, and predicted changes in precipitation are expected to increase the frequency ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Beavers are back in London. For the first time in 400 years, a family of wild beavers are calling the capital their home, nibbling away at trees and building dams in a nature reserve in west London.

It is World Rewilding Day today, an international celebration to raise awareness of “the benefits of wilder nature for wildlife, people and planet.” Rewilding is about letting nature recover in its ...

Rewilding projects are multiplying in the U.K. in response to a growing awareness of the country’s serious loss of biodiversity. Britain ranked 189th out of 218 countries in the 2016 “State of Nature” ...

Wales’s largest rewilding site has been unveiled, with a 1,195-acre landscape in the Cambrian Mountains set to be managed for nature recovery.

Timber Festival panellists discuss the key practices, problems and possibilities associated with 'rewilding'. Timber Festival is three days of music, art and performance to celebrate ‘the ...