Find a Rewilder.
Meet the people restoring habitats, nurturing biodiversity, and letting nature heal. These are the Rewilders.
#1 OCEAN Pledge
Ocean Pledge is a grassroots movement based in Cape Town that enables communities and young people in particular to transform awareness about the ocean into practical action – especially around single-use plastics, behaviour change and marine stewardship.
Diony Lalieu founded Ocean Pledge to bridge the gap between awareness and action. Through ambassador programmes and community education, Ocean Pledge empowers individuals to reduce plastic waste and protect marine ecosystems.
#2 Greenpop
Greenpop works to restore ecosystems and empower environmental stewards through forest restoration, urban greening, food gardening, and environmental awareness projects across Sub- Saharan Africa. Founded in 2010, has planted over 200,000 trees and inspired over 356,000 active citizens across South Africa, Zambia, Malawi, and Tanzania.
Misha Teasdal co-founded Greenpop in 2010 after recognising the power of ordinary people to restore degraded landscapes. Under his leadership, Greenpop has planted thousands of indigenous trees across Southern Africa, combining ecological restoration with joyful community participation. His philosophy is simple: reconnect people to nature, and restoration follows.
#3 Friends of Tokai Park
In promoting Tokai Park as a recreational gateway to Table Mountain National Park, Friends of Tokai Park (or FoTP) actively supports other conservation partners in restoring critically-endangered Cape Flats Sand Fynbos and Peninsula Granite Fynbos.
Friends of Tokai Park is driven by passionate volunteers restoring critically endangered Cape Flats Sand Fynbos. These citizen conservationists demonstrate how community leadership can regenerate biodiversity
#4 The Green Belt Movement
The Green Belt Movement is a globally renowned environmental conservation organization that empowers communities, particularly women, to conserve the environment and improve livelihoods.
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Wangari Maathai, founded the Green Belt Movement in Kenya, mobilising millions, especially women, to plant trees and restore ecosystems.
#5 Eden Project
Meet Jonathan ball and Sir Tim Smit
Jonathan and Tim co-founded the Eden Project in the United Kingdom by transforming a depleted quarry into biodiverse ecosystems and education hubs. The Eden leadership team continues to champion regenerative landscapes and ecological literacy on a global scale
#6 Justdiggit
Justdiggit believes in the power of nature and in cooling down the planet together by regreening degraded land and bringing back vegetation. Its mission is to inspire millions to take action to regreen degraded landscapes in Africa.
Tanzanian-based artist/inventor Peter Westerveld and Dutch entrepreneur Dennis Karpes established the Justdiggir (originally the NAGA Foundation) to combat climate change and desertification in Africa through large-scale, nature-based landscape restoration projects
#7 Rewilding Europe
Rewilding Europe aims to make Europe a wilder place. Its mission is to demonstrate the benefits of wilderness through the rewilding of diverse European landscapes, and to inspire and enable others to engage in rewilding.
Frans Schepers Rewilding Europe was initiated by conservation leaders like Frans Schepers and others committed to large-scale nature recovery.
