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Photo details / credit: Rewilding Chile – Marcelo Mascareno

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African forest elephant

Photo detail / credit: Elephant, Samara Karoo Reserve – Ida Hansen

AFRICAN FOREST ELEPHANTS

By restoring the forest elephant population in the Congo Basin to historic levels, an amount of carbon equivalent to double the fossil fuel emissions of Congo would be stored annually.

Shark – Walter Torres on Pexels

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– Walter Torres on Pexels

SHARKS

Protecting sharks across the world’s coral reefs can sequester the equivalent of the total of fossil fuel emissions by Kuwait in 2022.

Wildebeest

Photo detail / credit: Wildebeest, Kruger National Park – Charl Durand

WILDEBEEST

In Africa, protecting Wildebeest on the plains of the Serengeti has almost completely prevented wildfire outbreaks, while rejuvenated grasslands now capture carbon equivalent to 28% of Tanzania’s annual anthropogenic CO2 emissions.

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Our research has been published in 70 mainstream outlets, 50 countries and translated in 12 languages

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SPREAD THE WORD: Here’s where you can start

The following resources can be used to begin sharing what ACC is and why it’s so important, and include our ACC Social Media Kit

WATCH: Rewilding brings back healthy ecosystems

Biodiversity is a game changer in the field of landscape carbon offsetting activities. Restoring and conserving key species such as Forest Elephants and Wildebeest herds not only improves ecological functioning but can also magnify carbon uptake by 1.5 to 12.5 times across the world’s terrestrial, freshwater and marine ecosystems.

READ: The Reintroduction of Bison in Romania

170 European Bison, through their grazing, trampling, and seed dispersal in an area of 48 km2 of grasslands in a wider landscape of 300 km2, helped to capture approximately an additional 54,000 tonnes of carbon per year, nearly 10 times more than without the bison.

This widely shared story reached over 700 million people in just the first few days.

Animating the Carbon Cycle booklet

DISCOVER: Climate Heroes – The key species that play a crucial role in drawing down carbon

Climate change is commonly viewed as causing collateral damage to biodiversity. Wildlife species, particularly animals, are widely perceived as unwitting victims – passengers trapped aboard a ship on an ill-fated voyage.

In reality, animals play a critical role determining the course of the climate ship. From elephants to grasshoppers, sharks to sea otters, species of all descriptions, habitats and climate zones impact global carbon exchange in different ways. Within a complex web of interactions, some have a greater impact than others, while the impact of the same species may vary from ecosystem to ecosystem.

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Explore how key animals contribute to carbon drawdown and share their stories to inspire change.

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“To restore stability to our planet, we must restore its biodiversity, the very thing that we’ve removed. It’s the only way out of this crisis we’ve created – we must rewild the world.”

Sir David Attenborough – ‘A Life on Our Planet’

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Samara Karoo Reserve - David Swanepoel

Photo detail / credit: Samara Karoo Reserve
– David Swanepoel

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Toro, Rewilding Spain - Lidia Valverde

Photo detail / credit: Toro, Rewilding Spain – Lidia Valverde

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Grey wolf - Federico Di Dio

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– Federico Di Dio

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For further information, visit our Resource Library packed with a fully searchable collection of articles, reports, news items, videos, scientific papers, policy documents and other information about this exciting natural solution to the challenges of biodiversity loss, the climate crisis, and climate anxiety.

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SCIENTISTS & ORGANISATIONS BEHIND

This initiative is led by a partnership between the Global Rewilding Alliance and Yale School of the Environment.

This work would not have been possible without our Rewilding Champions. A great thank you to:

Biophilia Foundation, Rewilding Europe, Rewilding Chile, IFAW, André Hoffmann, Ben Goldsmith, Re:wild. We also want to thank One Earth and the WILD Foundation for helping us get started on his important initiative.

Together, this coalition advocates a very clear solution: preserving intact nature and immediately restoring and rewilding functional ecosystems at landscape and seascape scale. You can find out more about us here.