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With gnarly old trees now largely absent from our fields and forests, and old buildings extensively replaced with well-sealed modern structures, many otherwise suitable landscapes cannot currently support the multitude of cavity-nesting bird species that should be present.

RESTORE teamed up with Simon King to install a range of Arx Naturalis songbird, owl and bat boxes in two immature plantations at Dennington Hall Farms.

Western Pomeranian Nature Society (ZTP) has been working tirelessly over the past few years on increasing lynx population in North-western Poland to increase genetic diversity and connect it to populations from North-eastern Europe.

This film is an opportunity for you to understand what this process looks like and find out the story of one lucky lynx that was granted free life in the wilderness.

In recent decades, an explosion of deer, both native and non-native, has begun to decimate the regenerative potential of British woodlands.

Working to a vision produced by Restore for the 11,000-acre Southill Estate in Bedfordshire, Paul and his team have helped reduce deer not in ones or tens, but in their thousands. They are carrying out a powerful pseudo-predator role that is allowing the landscape to regenerate.

Non-native conifers absolutely have their place in the British landscape — in areas such as Kielder, for example — where timber production is an essential land use.

However, in the UK, a legacy of converting ancient woodlands into plantation forestry has had unintended consequences for native biodiversity and woodland character. At Framewood, RESTORE are committed to reversing this legacy of damage.

From late 2020, the Rewilding Apennines team have been working to support and enhance the griffon vultures of the Central Apennines, as part of efforts to support wildlife comeback and the development of a wilder, more functional landscape.

Rewilding Apennines Vulture Field Officer Nicolò Borgianni explains the issues related to griffon vulture conservation in Italy.

At Hamatethy on the edge of Bodmin Moor in North Cornwall Yan Swiderski is rewilding 600 acres. The land is low stocked with a small, slow-growing, almost wild herd of Welsh Black cattle that eat only the abundant grass and forage here – 100% pasture fed, leading natural lives outside beyond thirty months old.

Alongside these animals thrives a host of wildlife in the sky and the undergrowth. The presence and activity of the cattle here is helping to expand an existing breeding cuckoo range. White storks and voles are found here, barn owls and kestrels hunt small mammals in the long grass.

European Court of Justice finally ruled in April 2018 that the logging operations in Białowieża forest were illegal. Soon after the harvesters left the forest and the Minister of Environment was fired.

Tony Haighway, founder of Wolf Watch UK introduces Bosch, the new arrival at the sanctuary.

Tony tells a story of how a visit at Yellowstone National Park in the USA sparked his passion for wolves and talks about the project of wolf reintroduction there.

But there is more to rewilding than predator reintroductions and everyone can contribute their bit to restoring nature in their local area.