Rewilding Futures: Shaping Tomorrow's Wild

As private owners rewild land and markets for biodiversity and ecosystem services are introduced, novel (and repurposed old) legal mechanisms are becoming increasingly important to ensure long-term biodiversity benefits. This presentation will: 1. Consider the increasing need to secure rewilded land for the long term and how legal mechanisms are helping/hindering to achieve this; 2. Provide case studies of how legal mechanisms are being used with reference to specific examples from Italy, Portugal and the UK; 3. Consider how European jurisdictions can learn from each other to address legal barriers and ensure private land can be protected for rewilding for future generations; and 4. Introduce innovative legal thinking able to impact how landowners and practitioners can work together to secure land for rewilding: a. The case of LS as responsible body b. The opportunities that the NRL offers to secure land for rewilding.