Heartland Rewilding: Creating a thriving Midwestern landscape where humans and wild nature flourish
Heartland Rewilding is a partnership of Project Coyote, The Rewilding Institute and the Half-Earth Project. We are dedicating staff and other resources to address the third of North America that is too often undervalued and under-appreciated despite global importance and beauty. Devastatingly, the Midwest has lost 90% of its natural areas! We must now strive to restore balance to wildlands and wildlife, and strive to recreate a robust, healthier landscape for humans and wildlife.
“Scientists have identified the loss of biological diversity as being unprecedented in its rate of species decline and its global scale. Few places in the United States have experienced biodiversity loss more severely than the Heartland (my childhood home). Rewilding habitats and reversing the loss of native species throughout the Mississippi River watershed is critical to restoring naturally functioning ecosystems and at the same time addressing the vexing issue of climate change.”
-David Parsons, Science Advisor to Project Coyote and The Rewilding Institute
Heartland Rewilding will restore wild nature in our nation’s heartland by working with diverse on-the-ground partners from the private and public sectors. Our ambitious initiative will build a framework for rewilding large landscapes across the entire Mississippi River watershed which spans from New York to Montana and from Canada down to the Gulf Waters.
Building a thriving Midwestern landscape where people and wild nature thrive will take all of us. You can learn more about Heartland Rewilding and how you can get involved by visiting our website HeartlandRewilding.org.
Watch our Executive Director, Camilla Fox, join others in a vital conversation on what it means to #rewild our developed landscapes.