The 2022 Rewild London Fund has awarded 22 projects that will enhance London’s most valuable wildlife sites.
Rewilding in London
Biodiversity is deteriorating worldwide, and this decline is projected to worsen. Despite a long legacy of action in the city, much of London’s wildlife has not escaped this decline.
Most of London’s most valuable sites for nature are recognised as Sites of Importance for Nature Conservation (SINCs). There are more than 1,600 SINCs across the city, covering nearly 20 per cent of its surface area.
These sites are the core of London's wildlife network and need to be at the heart of any actions to rewild the city and recover nature.
Why we need to rewild London
To conserve London's core network and to ensure it is resilient to pressures like climate change, it needs to be well managed, expanded and better connected through habitat creation, enhancement and restoration.
It also needs to be known and enjoyed by Londoners, so its value is understood.
How we are supporting new rewilding projects in London
The Rewild London Fund is supporting projects aiming to enhance and restore London’s Sites of Importance for Nature Conservation (SINCs).
Rewild London Fund 2023
The third round of the Rewild London Fun, run in partnership with the London Wildlife Trust, called for projects to happen at a range of spatial scales to help expand, restore and connect wildlife areas across London.
Recipients of the grants have now been announced.
Past recipients
Previous rounds of the Rewild London Fund awarded a total of £1,450,000 to projects that aimed at improving and connecting London's most valuable wildlife sites, as well as restoring and creating over 270 hectares of wildlife habitats across the capital.
Below you can find out more about the grant recipients, their projects and the progress made.
The 2021 Rewild London Fund has awarded 19 projects that will enhance London’s most valuable wildlife sites.
How we are driving action together
The London Rewilding Taskforce was a time-limited advisory group convened by the Mayor of London. Their role was to explore potential opportunities for rewilding in London to support nature recovery and enhance biodiversity, while bringing benefits to Londoners and addressing the climate and ecological emergency.
They met three times over the course of 2022, culminating in a final recommendations report published in March 2023.
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