Wild animals: The original and best carbon-capture ‘technology’
The webinar presents the latest scientific insights about how animal species restoration and conservation can contribute to nature-based climate solutions via their underappreciated functional roles in protecting and enhancing carbon capture and storage across a broad range of global ecosystems.
Forests with tigers store more vegetation carbon than those without across most forest types. In disturbed areas, tigers help control carbon by limiting ungulates; in stable forests, carbon influences tiger density. Tiger presence also links to higher soil or plant carbon.
New research published in Global Change Biology (Roberts et al., 2025) reveals that forests with healthy populations of wild Tigers store more carbon than ‘empty forests’ without Tigers — advancing the goals of both the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). This provides additional compelling evidence that wildlife recovery is a critical, yet often overlooked, tool in climate mitigation.
Written by Magnus Sylvén & May Scott
The study evaluates the decline of seed dispersers and the consequences for biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. It features their maintenance, recovery and future trajectories under land-use change, wildfire, biotic invasions and climate change
Large carnivores, including the grey wolf, play an important role in the carbon cycle through modifying the behaviour and population of wild herbivores. This paper explores the impact of a wolf reintroduction in the Scottish Highlands
In a new article by Graham Lawton, New Scientist cites a growing pile of evidence that animals are unrecognised but powerful drivers of carbon capture.
We’ve pumped huge amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere that needs to be paid back. Large animals like wolves, bison and whales may already be tackling the problem
This paper, focussing mainly on plants, shows how large herbivores directly impact ecosystem diversity and functionality through changes to selection, speciation, drift and dispersal
Share these stories to amplify the message of wildlife’s key role in addressing the interconnected climate and biodiversity crises
By 2025, countries participating in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) must present their updated Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), detailing renewed strategies to address the escalating climate crisis.
These guidelines address the critical need to align national climate strategies with biodiversity goals ensuring, that conserving ecosystems and wildlife can contribute to carbon sequestration while supporting economic development
The study ‘Toward the quantification of the climate co-benefits of invasive mammal eradication on islands’ highlights the crucial role of invasive species in increasing climate resilience
Islands are currently hotspots of biological and cultural diversity but face threats from invasive species and climate change. Invasive mammal eradication on islands is a proven conservation intervention that helps reduce biodiversity loss
Webinar for policymakers in Europe presenting ground-breaking evidence from Yale University & other leading institutions, showing how wild animals play a key role in global carbon cycles
Webinar for policymakers in Africa presenting ground-breaking evidence from Yale University & other leading institutions, showing how wild animals play a key role in global carbon cycles. Downloadable slides from Andrew Tilker from Re:wild
Webinar for policymakers in MENA presenting ground-breaking evidence from Yale University & other leading institutions, showing how wild animals play a key role in global carbon cycles
European bison disappeared from Romania more than 200 years ago, 170 were reintroduced to the Tarcu mountains and research shows they can help mitigate the impact of the climate crisis
European bison are a keystone species and are known ecosystem engineers and research demonstrates they can have significant impacts on an ecosystem’s carbon cycle
Gone from Romania for 200 years, European bison were reintroduced to the Țarcu Mountains in 2014. Now numbering 170, the bison are reshaping the mountain landscape in ways that are helping clean up emissions
New research from Yale University shows that 170 rewilded European Bison in Romania’s Tarcu mountains are helping to draw down and store the equivalent CO2 emissions of removing up to 84,000 average US petrol cars from the road
Q&A to accompany the Rewilded Bison are Climate Heroes press release. It covers impacts of the Bison on the carbon cycle and ecosystems and about a new scientific field – Animating the Carbon Cycle
Gone from Romania for 200 years, European bison were reintroduced to the _arcu Mountains in 2014. Now numbering 170, the bison are reshaping the mountain landscape in ways that are helping clean up emissions
Free-roaming animals reintroduced in Romania’s Țarcu mountains are stimulating plant growth and securing carbon stored in the soil while grazing
The mathamatical tools that scientists use to account for the amount of carbon captured and stored in ecosystems rarely consider the effects of animals. Now there is a new framework – Animating the Carbon Cycle (ACC) that aims to change this
European Bison disappeared from Romania over 200 years ago. WWF Romania and Rewilding Europe have been working together to reintroduce this iconic species back to the Southern Carpathian Mountains
This paper provides the theoretical and mathematical background of the Yale/GRA Carbon Capture Framework Model
A recent study that looked at the effects of European bison on the ability of forests in Romania to store carbon found that these large animals have a ‘heroic’ effect
While trophic rewilding is exciting, successful outcomes require practitioners to exercise cautious consideration of local factors, an upholding of ethical principles in these efforts, and use technology to track progress
The role of animals in the Carbon cycle is overlooked. We will showcase animal-based initiatives that contribute to Carbon storage and how enhancing animals’ ability to fulfil their ecological roles can help us tackle climate change
The video showcases what Rewilding involves, the significant impacts it can have and how it can positively influence ecosystems. It associated with hope, transformation, balance and diversity