Free rewilding guide launched to mark World Rewilding Day

Gosia Buzzanca

As World Rewilding Day is marked around the globe, Wild Mosaic  –  a digital rewilding platform that aims to make nature restoration accessible to everyone – launches a free, user-friendly comprehensive guide to rewilding for complete beginners. As the guide puts it: “You don’t need land. You don’t need specialist knowledge. You just need to know where to start.”

According to the WWF’s Living Planet report, Wildlife populations across the world have declined an average of 73% in the past 50 years. The UK is one of the most nature depleted countries on earth, sitting in the bottom 10% globally of “biodiversity intactness.” Half of UK biodiversity has already been lost.

‘A Personal Guide to Rewilding: Small Steps to Redevelop Our Natural Intelligence’ is a practical introduction to rewilding. The guide covers everything from how to rewild your garden into a thriving wildlife space to how to take rewilding action in public spaces — from road verges to parks.

Rewilding Land

From the science of biodiversity and why it matters, to a hands-on guide for rewilding your garden this spring: leaving an unmown corner, adding a wildlife pond (even a half-barrel counts), introducing native wildflowers, cutting pesticide use and connecting your garden to your neighbours’ for maximum impact. Includes a list of the UK’s best rewilding sites to visit, from Knepp Estate in West Sussex to beaver reintroduction sites across Devon, Cornwall and Wales.

Rewilding Ourselves

Addressing the disconnect from nature that underlies the biodiversity crisis it covers how to rebuild natural intelligence — learning ten birds, identifying common trees, following the seasons — alongside the science of nature connection. University of Derby research led by Professor Miles Richardson has found that people with stronger connections to nature are significantly happier, an effect four times larger than that associated with socioeconomic status. Includes a curated toolkit of free apps: Merlin Bird ID, iRecord, iNaturalist, PlantNet and the Encounter app.

Wild Mosaic and Wilder Pentwyn Farm, Radnorshire, Wales 

Wild Mosaic partners with wildlife trusts and rewilding organisations who are already working in the ground. They carry out practical interventions: slowing water, introducing grazing animals, planting wildflowers and managing invasive species. Wild Mosaic funds this work through member subscriptions and provides the platform for members to follow progress. 

At its first project managed by Radnorshire Wildlife Trust at Wilder Pentwyn Farm, Wales, subscribers can choose their own 3x3m patch, which is transitioning from decades of sheep pasture into a mosaic of wildflower meadow, emerging woodland, and new wetland habitats.

Each patch has its own unique three-word address and Wild Mosaic subscribers receive regular updates – from wildlife sightings to photographs and field notes – showing exactly what is growing, arriving, and changing on or around their plot. Wild Mosaic’s four subscriber plots sit across the site – two lower plots near a stream and the River Lugg, two higher plots in a buttercup field corner and among veteran trees.

Jon Conradi, Founder, Wild Mosaic, says, “Rewilding isn’t just about land — it’s about people. Wild Mosaic exists to prove that everyone can participate in bringing nature back, wherever they live. Our eBook is the starting point. The movement does the rest.”

Rewilding is about supporting biodiversity and rebuilding our connection to nature — bringing life back to land, and wildness back to people’s lives. A deeper connection to each other and to the life all around us. As Jon Conradi puts it: “Together, we are greater than the sum of our parts.” 

For more information on Wild Mosaic and its first project at Wilder Pentwyn Farm, Wales, visit https://www.wildmosaic.eco/

The guide is free to download here: A personal guide to rewilding: redevelop your natural intelligence.