Endangered Landscapes & Seascapes Programme

175,402 hectares. Bigger than Greater London. That's the area directly under restoration across our first seven projects. https://www.endangeredlandscapes.org/restoration-works

We’re awarding $1.7 million to kickstart 15 restoration initiatives! 🌿🌊 Our new planning grants will help teams build partnerships and develop plans for nature recovery across Europe and the Mediterranean. Meet the projects: https://ow.ly/gIgN50ZZlVK

📖 New research📖 These findings provide an evidence-based framework for selecting AMF inocula according to restoration goals in drylands, highlighting the importance of environmental history when developing microbiome-based interventions 🏜️ 🍄‍🟫 🔎 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🦬 Kulans are roaming the Ukrainian steppe again, while water buffalo and Konik horses are helping restore natural grazing. A new article from TEXTY explores how nature is recovering in the Ukrainian part of our Danube Delta restoration landscape. Read more: https://texty.org.ua/articles/117978/

When people think of Chornobyl, they think of the 1986 nuclear disaster. Today, another challenge is growing. Decades of drainage have left wetlands more vulnerable to wildfire. Restoring natural water levels could help reduce that risk. Read more: https://ow.ly/fP2z50Zx3qy

What if the most important lesson in landscape restoration wasn't about ecology, but about listening? Our latest Restoration Works story explores how working with local shepherding communities helped shape restoration in Georgia's Iori River Valley. Read more: https://ow.ly/OKtp50Zx3sC

Restoring nature starts with people. 🌿 In Georgia's Iori River Valley, restoration is bringing together sustainable grazing, floodplain restoration and policy change to support wildlife and local livelihoods. Learn more: https://www.endangeredlandscapes.org/project/iori-river-valley/

Across Europe, projects funded by the Endangered Landscapes & Seascapes Programme and the Open Rivers Programme can sometimes be found within the same landscapes. Our latest article explores what that looks like. 🔗 https://ow.ly/QWup50ZtN8P

As Europe faces another severe wildfire season, our thoughts are with everyone affected. While restoration can't prevent every wildfire, it can help build more resilient landscapes. Read more: https://ow.ly/QlQr50ZuK5Q

What comes next for Gökova Bay?

What does it take to scale marine restoration from one bay to 500 km of coastline? Zafer Kızılkaya shares the lessons, challenges and hope behind one of Türkiye's largest marine restoration projects. 🌊 https://ow.ly/MFWi50ZpY0G

A flooded cave in Gökova Bay wasn't suitable for Mediterranean monk seals to rest and raise their pups. So the Gökova Bay to Cape Gelidonya project built a dry platform. Just eight months later, monk seals had started using it, and today multiple seals continue to return. 💙

What does restoration sound like? Our new article explores the story behind Wings Over Mountains, where music, birdsong and the voices of local communities come together to tell the story of Bulgaria's Eastern Rhodopes. https://ow.ly/mR9I50ZmWyB

Healthy seas support both nature and people. Discover how Fauna & Flora and AKD are reconnecting marine ecosystems along 500 km of Türkiye's Mediterranean coastline. 🌊 https://www.endangeredlandscapes.org/project/gokova-bay-to-cape-gelidonya/

The future of the Mediterranean depends on more than protecting wildlife. It depends on the people who know these waters best. See how marine restoration is helping communities and nature thrive together along Türkiye's Mediterranean coast. 🌊 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4GP6-mQhsvg

🌍 Seven projects. Seven years. More than 175,000 hectares under restoration. Today, we launch Restoration Works, a campaign celebrating the achievements and lessons from seven pioneering restoration projects across Europe. https://youtu.be/8kRbHkplGk4

How do we know if restoration is really working? Ecology is only part of the answer. Our new report explores and why human #wellbeing needs to be part of restoration planning & monitoring from the start. ➡️https://bit.ly/4dB8cTp @endangeredlands.bsky.social @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social

🌿 Two rare lichen species have been discovered in Naddle Forest, Cumbria, for the first time in northern England, highlighting the importance of protecting the UK’s remaining temperate rainforest habitats. Read more: https://ow.ly/QMQQ50YVww2

An evening of vision and impact 🌍 Co-hosted with Arcadia, we brought together leaders from across conservation, philanthropy, and research in Cambridge for The power of restoration. A major milestone for the ELSP, reflecting on progress since 2019 and the next chapter of restoration across Europe.

“I’m awoken by a rumble and look across the Danube to see smoke rising.” These predators are reclaiming their home in the middle of a warzone. Read the new BBC Wildlife Mag article on our Danube Delta project: https://ow.ly/GhQa50YNQqo

We are excited to launch the new website for the Endangered Landscapes & Seascapes Programme. It brings together the people, projects, science, and stories behind one of Europe’s largest landscape and seascape restoration initiatives. 🔗Visit us: https://www.endangeredlandscapes.org/

Iceland’s Mýrar wetlands provide vital habitat for migratory birds and fish but they have been degraded by decades of drainage and land conversion. RSPB and Fuglavernd/BirdLife Iceland are working to restore them thanks to new funding from @endangeredlands.bsky.social More: tinyurl.com/y3yrtkjh

🗺️ Planning Grants Call Now Closed Thank you to everyone who submitted an Expression of Interest for the Endangered Landscapes & Seascapes Programme’s Planning Grants.

📢New album in support of nature and wildlife in the Solent out now! Songs from the Solent, created by Richard Walters for his Artist Residency with the Solent Seascape, is available to download and stream now. 🔗 Find out more: https://bit.ly/3YFTiDa

⏳ Less Than a Month Left to Apply! If you are developing an ambitious restoration plan in Europe, do not miss this opportunity to apply for a Planning Grant of up to US$120,000. 📅 Deadline: 17:00 GMT on 20 January 2026 🔗 Apply here: https://endangeredlandscapes.org/about/funding-opportunities/

⏳ Deadline Approaching! Apply for up to US$120,000 in funding for early-stage restoration planning across Europe. 📅 Deadline: 20 Jan 2026, 17:00 GMT 🔗 https://endangeredlandscapes.org/about/funding-opportunities/

📢 Planning Grant Funding Opportunity! We are inviting Expressions of Interest for Planning Grants of up to US$120,000 to support early-stage restoration planning across Europe. Deadline: 20 Jan 2026, 17:00 GMT Apply 👉 https://endangeredlandscapes.org/about/funding-opportunities/

🌿 We're attending Communicate 2025: London Rachel Gartner and Iona Haines will be attending Communicate 2025: London on Wednesday 26 November. If you’re attending, connect with Rachel and Iona in person or on LinkedIn ahead of the event. 🔗https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/cc/communicate-2025-4090023

We’re proud to announce that Emilie Reuchlin, co-founder of the Doggerland Foundation, has received Stanford’s 2025 Bright Award for her leadership in restoring the North Sea. 🌊https://www.endangeredlandscapes.org/news/emilie-reuchlin-wins-stanfords-bright-award-for-north-sea-restoration/

🔬 Beneath our feet lies a hidden world of biodiversity. Dr Cristian Navarro Waggershauser (UHI Inverness) shares how DNA metabarcoding is uncovering hidden biodiversity and opening up new ways to understand ecological recovery. 👉 Read more: https://ow.ly/JoS650Xg6FU

🗺️ Missed our Planning Grant webinar? If you couldn’t join us live on Monday, you can now watch the full recording on YouTube. https://youtu.be/jethhw0k_BA?si=C4ZzqnL2ZArdG_eR

After 400 years, beavers have returned to Cairngorms National Park and built a dam at RSPB Insh Marshes. Holding water longer and creating rich habitats, they achieved in months what people had planned for years. 🦫 Find out more🔗 https://bit.ly/3JfCgYA

📢 Planning Grants webinar and Q&A on Monday Thinking of applying for a Planning Grant? Join our one-hour session to learn more about the Programme and the application process. 🗓 Monday 3 Nov | 🕥 10:30–11:30 (UK) 🔗 Register: https://jbs-cam.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_UWdZKqLmT6SER3hvuKDQFA

Planning the next step for your restoration work? 🌍 Our Planning Grants (up to US$120,000) support early-stage restoration projects across Europe. Join our webinar on 3 Nov, 10:30–11:30 (UK) to find out more. 🔗 https://jbs-cam.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_UWdZKqLmT6SER3hvuKDQFA

📢 New funding call for river restoration in Europe! The European Open Rivers Programme is accepting applications for projects removing obsolete barriers. Apply by 31 Oct 2025, 13:00 CET. 🔗 Details: https://openrivers.eu/grants/apply-for-a-grant/

Thinking of applying for a Planning Grant? 🌍 Join our webinar and Q&A on 3 Nov, 10:30–11:30 (UK time) to learn about the Endangered Landscapes & Seascapes Programme and how to apply. Register: jbs-cam.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

@endangeredlands.bsky.social offers Planning Grants <US$120K to support early stages of landscape & seascape restoration across Europe: · Building strong collaborations · Establishing biodiversity baselines · Preparing proposals for larger-scale funding 📅 Deadline: 20 January 2026 ogy.de/fbgc

🤝 Rewilding Europe and Mayors of Europe have launched a new partnership to support wildlife comeback across the continent. As species like wolves and bison return, this collaboration will help mayors and communities share solutions for living alongside wildlife. 🔗 bit.ly/4gW0G5z

🔬 What still lives on the Dogger Bank? In July, Menno de Boer joined a 10-day expedition to collect seawater for eDNA analysis – tiny fragments that reveal which species still inhabit this once-thriving, but now degraded sandbank. 🌊 Read his diary from the expedition: https://ow.ly/9R7A50X4haa

📢 Planning Grant Funding Opportunity! The Endangered Landscapes & is inviting applications for Planning Grants of up to US$120,000 to support early-stage restoration planning across Europe. Deadline: 20 Jan 2026 Apply 👉 https://www.endangeredlandscapes.org/about/funding-opportunities/

🌍 Since 2017, the Endangered Landscapes & Seascapes Programme has been working with partners across Europe to restore ecosystems on land and sea. Our vision is simple: landscapes and seascapes where nature and people can thrive for generations to come. Find out more: www.endangeredlandscapes.org