The New Mexico Bison Restoration Network is a partner of the The Global Rewilding Alliance, which works to combine the force of the many efforts globally to restore ecosystems by centering the proven success of rewilding. In their own words:

The Global Rewilding Alliance works to put rewilding at the centre of environmental talks and actions. This is why we are commissioning, convening, and publishing top-class science on the importance of rewilding.

Our scientific research is now showing that restoring wildlife populations to significant, near-historic levels has the potential to supercharge climate mitigation, facilitating carbon capture by up to 12 times and reducing emissions by billions of tonnes annually.

This is called: “Animating the Carbon Cycle (ACC)” and it is rivaling the top 5 mitigation measures proposed by the IPCC.

Our research published in Nature Climate Change is among the top 5% most impactful scientific papers on Altmetric.

(Altmetric measures the impact of scientific publications by tracking all the online attention to published research – policy documents, mainstream news outlets, social media, blogs, Wikipedia, online reference managers and more. See Almetric.com)

Rewilding Research

Animating the Carbon Cycle

This 2022 report introduces the idea that rewilding animal species can play a central role in addressing the climate crisis by enabling whole ecosystems to draw down vast amounts of carbon. It’s an accessibly written, long version of the more scientific papers shared below.

Scientific paper in Nature Climate Change, March 2023

This seminal paper draws together the evidence from subjects experts on the carbon impact of rewilding nine animal species to near historic levels. It’s already in the top 5% of academic papers on the Altmetric impact tool, showing the level of interest in this new idea.

Rewilding, a serious candidate for stabilising the global climate

An accessible briefing for busy people, summarizing the main ideas of the longer papers shown opposite.

Nature Climate Change paper takes the world by storm: Impact report

This 2-page report summarizes the impact of this seminal paper, showing how it has been published worldwide in 70+ outlets and translated into many languages.