Stories, updates
and reflections

There are some things you can't capture in a report. The smell of warm grass at midday. The way a hillside sounds when it's full of insects again. The quiet satisfaction of pushing aside the long grass to find a rowan sapling, waist-high, that wasn't there a couple of summers ago.

Last week we spent a day at Rowan Tree Farm, our rewilding site in the Peak District, and we brought some friends. Rather than talk about nature recovery from a meeting room, we did what we always think works best, we put our boots on and walked the land with the partners who help make this work possible.

During the Summer of 2023, we have been fortunate enough to have high tech bat detectors placed and monitored by local bat expert, David Watkins. These were placed in two locations at Bank Woods.

Biodiversity is the existence of a wide variety of plant and animal species living in their natural environment.

At Bank Woods in Nidderdale, something quiet and remarkable has been happening underfoot.

The team at Make It Wild has been dedicated to reserving space for nature and creating wildlife habitats since 2010, and their efforts are now yielding remarkable results.

As the headlines remind us almost daily, the climate and nature crises are not slowing down.

Total so far: 108,897 trees by 10th April 2025

At Make it Wild we are celebrating planting 25,000 trees in Yorkshire!