Urban Rewilding | Derbyshire Wildlife Trust

Urban Rewilding – Wilding our Urban Spaces to Share with Nature

Our vision is for wilder towns and cities, abundant with wildlife, where nature and people are thriving together.

We want to see wildlife-rich urban spaces, from living walls and wildflower verges to rivers alive with beavers and dragonflies. By reimagining our streets, parks, gardens and transport routes, we can make towns and cities greener, healthier and more resilient, places where both people and nature flourish.

By backing community-led rewilding, we’re helping to ensure that everyone in our towns and cities can enjoy regular access to thriving natural spaces. Together, people and nature are driving recovery and tackling the biodiversity and climate crisis while boosting health and wellbeing.

How we will get there:

Help people to connect with nature, by…

Raising awareness of the benefits of having nature in people’s lives and increasing expectations of what ‘good quality nature’ looks like.
Collaborating closely with others to remove barriers to connecting people with nature.
Supporting community rewilding projects that enable everyone in our urban spaces to have regular access to good quality nature where they live.

Support people to take action for wildlife, by…

Supporting the creation of community organising networks that enable positive change for nature and climate.
Supporting councils to co-create Green Infrastructure, and Nature Economy Strategies.

Create more space for nature and enable more people to benefit from nature, by…

Supporting large and small scale change to create more connected space for nature, using urban rewilding and nature-based solutions approaches
Delivering Citizen Science and Citizen Zoo based species recovery, and species reintroduction projects.