Bangladesh sees first ever rewilding of captive-bred elongated tortoises

Two species of critically endangered tortoises were reintroduced to Bangladesh‘s forests last December. Six captive-bred elongated tortoises (Indotestudo elongata) were ...

The folk singer Liisa Matveinen, whose repertoire reflects the role of wild reindeer in the traditions of Karelia.Photograph: Salla Seeslahti/The Guardian

Wildlife & Conservation

Ghosts of the landscape: how folklore and songs are key to rewilding Finland’s reindeer

January 4, 2025

The Finnish folk musician Liisa Matveinen lives in a mustard-coloured house in Ilomantsi, 12 miles (20km) from the Russian border. ...

Gabriel Andriamanjaka radio-tracking tortoises at a release site. Image by Carolyn Cowan for Mongabay.

Wildlife & Conservation

Massive tortoise rewilding in Madagascar’s spiny forest strives to save fraught species

January 3, 2025

TAOLAGNARO, Madagascar – Gabriel Andriamanjaka holds the radiotracking aerial aloft and marches into a spiky forest thicket. Branches whip around ...

A Ukrainian tank hidden in a forest in the Donetsk Region in February 2023.

Environmental Policies

Ukraine Rewilding: Will Nature Be Allowed to Revive When War Ends?

November 28, 2024

It was a monumental disaster. The dynamiting of the Kakhovka dam on Ukraine’s Dnieper River just before dawn on June ...

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