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🌳 Unique experiences & stays in Europe's wild nature
🐻 Founded by @rewildingeurope
🦬 The first rewilding tourism hub
👣 Support local communities

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Rewilding tourism is gaining momentum💪

Across Europe, wildlife is making a comeback, and travellers are finding new ways to experience it first-hand.

🐎 On Croatia’s Lika Plains, photographic safaris take visitors into a landscape where semi-wild horses and Tauros roam beneath the Velebit Mountains. Their grazing helps maintain a mosaic of grasslands and scrub, supporting a rich variety of wildlife.

From tracking bears in ancient forests to exploring wildlife-rich deltas, rewilding tourism gives travellers a chance to discover how landscapes are recovering, while creating opportunities for local businesses and the communities connected to them, and, of course, enjoy memorable trips. 🤝

Through @gowilderplaces, travellers can discover and book wildlife experiences and nature-based stays across European rewilding landscapes.

🏆 This approach to tourism recently received recognition at the 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔 𝐓𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐦 𝐈𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐒𝐮𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐭 in Seville, where Wilder Places took second place in the 𝐒𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 & 𝐑𝐞𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐓𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐦 𝐀𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝, standing out among more than 200 entries.

📖 Read the blog through the link in bio 🔗
🌍 Or book your next wild adventure though wilderplaces.com

📷 Sophie Monsarrat - Rewilding Europe / Daniel Allen - Rewilding Europe / Cătălin Josan / Neil Aldridge - Rewilding Europe by @gowilderplaces

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2 days ago

𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐩𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐝 𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞?

Wildlife is making a comeback across Europe, and how we experience it matters. That’s why every trip on Wilder Places is built around a few simple principles:

🔭 Nature leads, we follow
🧭 Local guides who know their wild neighbours
🐾 Wildlife sets the terms, and no encounter is ever guaranteed
🌍 Every visit supports landscapes where nature is returning

Done well, rewilding tourism helps make wildlife’s return worth celebrating for the people who live alongside it.

𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐰𝐰.𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐬.𝐜𝐨𝐦 (𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐢𝐧 𝐛𝐢𝐨)

#rewilding #responsibletravel #wildlifewatching #naturetourism #visitEurope by @gowilderplaces

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10 days ago

Think again! Nature is recovering across Europe, and you can witness its comeback. ➡️

📍Dauphiné Alps, France 🇫🇷

📍Nordic Taiga, Sweden 🇸🇪

📍Velebit Mountains, Croatia 🇭🇷

📍Southern Carpathians, Romania 🇷🇴

📍Iberian Highlands, Spain 🇪🇸

📍Central Apennines, Italy 🇮🇹

📍Greater Côa Valley, Portugal

💚 by @gowilderplaces

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23 days ago

What does it feel like to live alongside wildlife that is making a comeback? 🐻🌿

In the latest episode of the podcast 𝑴𝒂𝒚 𝑰 𝑺𝒑𝒆𝒂𝒌 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑴𝒂𝒏𝒂𝒈𝒆𝒓?, Bart Schutz, our Wilder Places Manager, talks about what travellers can discover in rewilding landscapes beyond beautiful scenery.

It’s the people, their stories and the everyday experience of sharing these places with returning wildlife.

Through Wilder Places, we’re helping travellers discover these landscapes while supporting nature-based tourism and creating opportunities for local communities to benefit from the return of nature. 🌍

🎧 Find “May I Speak to the Manager?” wherever you get your podcasts or through @rewildingeurope’s link in bio 🔗

#WilderPlaces #RewildingEurope #RewildingTourism #Naturetravel by @gowilderplaces

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a month ago

Nature has a lot to say — if you slow down enough to notice.

Sometimes, the wildest stories are happening right at your feet: movement, sound, tiny paths and details that are easy to miss.

Look closer. Listen longer. Discover the wild.

→ Explore more at wilderplaces.com

#WilderPlaces #Rewilding #NatureTravel #WildEurope by @gowilderplaces

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Imagine a weekend that gives you more than a change of scenery.

It could mean following wild rivers, walking through recovering forests, looking for wildlife, and discovering the people and stories behind landscapes that are becoming wilder.

A Wilder Places experience brings you closer to nature’s recovery — and to the places where that change is happening.

Find your next experience at wilderplaces.com.

📸 James Shooter / Rewilding Europe

#WilderPlaces #Rewilding #WildEurope #NatureTravel by @gowilderplaces

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Answer the call.

Across Europe, Wilder Places connects you with landscapes where wildlife is returning, rivers are being restored and nature is reclaiming space.

Your next journey can be more than a getaway. It can bring you closer to the people, places and stories shaping a wilder future.

Your next wild experience might be closer than you think.

Explore Wilder Places experiences at wilderplaces.com.

📸 Marcus Westberg / Rewilding Europe

#WilderPlaces #Rewilding #WildEurope #NatureTravel by @gowilderplaces

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Because you can witness nature’s recovery as it unfolds.

These landscapes are changing in real time. Rivers are recovering their natural flow, wildlife is returning, forests are becoming more diverse, and natural processes are beginning to take the lead again.

Travelling through them gives you the chance to experience that transformation up close, understand what is happening on the ground, and meet the people and teams helping create the conditions for nature to recover.

Your visit can also support these landscapes and the local communities working alongside nature.

Explore landscapes in recovery with Wilder Places.
Visit Wilderplaces.com

📸Nelleke de Weerd / Rewilding Europe

#WilderPlaces #Rewilding #WildEurope #NatureTravel by @gowilderplaces

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👣 ʀᴇᴡɪʟᴅɪɴɢ ᴡᴇᴇᴋꜱ 2027 ʙᴏᴏᴋɪɴɢꜱ ᴀʀᴇ ᴏᴘᴇɴ! 👣

Summer's barely over and we're already dreaming about next year... good news — you can lock in your spot now at wilderplaces.com!
Rewilding Weeks are 5 immersive days exploring the stunning Central Apennines with the @rewildingapennines team. Each day focuses on a key rewilding action — fieldwork, encounters with local stakeholders, and wildlife observation 👣🌲🦌

By joining, you directly support our hands-on conservation work and contribute to the Bear Fund 🐻💚

✨ ɴᴇᴡ ꜰᴏʀ 2027 : The June Rewilding Week will focus entirely on coexistence and our work to make it happen in the Central Apennines! Expect a hike from a bear's perspective, a deep-dive into shepherding, a dedicated workshop exploring the many dimensions of this complex topic, and encounters with local actors to ask all your questions 🐑🐻

⚡ PS: there are still 4 spots left for October — don't wait too long!

📅 Link in bio to book

#RewildingWeek #rewildingexperience #rewilding #visititaly #wildlifeconservation #travelfornature by @gowilderplaces

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Europe is becoming wilder — and you can witness it happening.

Across the continent, wildlife is returning, ecosystems are recovering and landscapes are being given more space to thrive.

Travelling through these places means seeing that transformation up close and understanding what a wilder future for Europe can look like.

Explore more at wilderplaces.com

📸James Shooter / Rewilding Europe

#WilderPlaces #Rewilding #WildEurope #NatureTravel by @gowilderplaces

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Fact: Rewilding tourism supports nature’s comeback.

The right kind of journey can support wildlife recovery, help natural processes return and create new opportunities for local communities living alongside nature.

From the Greater Côa Valley, through the Arda River, to the Nordic Taiga, these are places where landscapes are changing, wildlife is returning and nature is being given more space to thrive.

Explore them, experience that transformation up close, and be part of the story.

Discover your next Wilder Place.

📸 Nelleke de Weerd / Rewilding Europe, Nelleke de Weerd / Rewilding Europe, Nino Salkić

#WilderPlaces #Rewilding #NatureTravel #WildEurope by @gowilderplaces

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What does becoming wilder actually look like?

It can look like a river recovering its natural flow, wildlife returning to landscapes where it had disappeared, or forests becoming richer, more diverse and more resilient.

Rewilding is a process that creates the conditions for ecosystems to recover and become self-sustaining again, allowing nature to take the lead.

You can see that transformation across places like the Greater Côa Valley, the Nordic Taiga, the Dauphiné Alps, and the Velebit Mountains.

Travelling through these landscapes means seeing that change up close and understanding how each place is becoming wilder in its own way.

📸 Marcus Westberg / Rewilding Europe - James Shooter - Rewilding Europe / Luca Melcarne by @gowilderplaces

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