Rewilding Experiences

Rewilding Experiences

 

Rewilding Apennines opens up the territory to those who want to understand rewilding from the inside.

 

We offer travel experiences in the Central Apennines for those who want to understand it up close: monitoring outings, days in the field with our teams, encounters with the communities who live and work in this landscape. Nothing staged to feel authentic. Just the land as it is, with its rhythms, its contradictions, its wildlife.

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Our work with international tour operators is built around two ideas: travel and conservation. Together, we’ve turned journeys into concrete action on the ground. Rewilding Experiences are designed for those who want to go beyond exploration: an immersion in a changing Apennines, an encounter with the communities living along the ecological corridors, in daily coexistence with wildlife.

From our Rewilding Weeks, tailor-made around Rewilding Apennines fieldwork, to trips with a strong scientific focus, we offer a wide range of experiences.

Days spent alongside the Rewilding Apennines team, contributing directly to conservation work and ecosystem restoration. Moments of exchange, discovery, stewardship of the land. A way to support the small Apennine villages and take part in a process that closely concerns them.

For more informations, write to:
valerio.reale@rewilding-apennines.com
berenice.guinel@rewilding-apennines.com

Choose your Rewilding Experience!

Rewilding Weeks

Our special programme, created by us in collaboration with the local tour operator Wildlife Adventures, a member of our coexistence business network.

Five days fully immersed in Rewilding Apennines’ field activities, meeting local communities and the artisans who work alongside us — a chance to discover the area from the inside and get to know the people who live it every day.
The most hands-on way to support our Bear Fund.

Find out more about the programme here!

Next trips
17–21 June 2026
14–18 October 2026

Book your Rewilding Week!

Exodus Adventure Travels Tour

A trip organised by Exodus Travels with a full day dedicated to the work of Rewilding Apennines.

With more than 10 trips organized together, we turned unforgettable experiences into real steps for rewilding.

By joining this tour, you directly support the creation of new funds for restoring natural processes and for initiatives aimed at reducing human–bear conflict outside protected areas.

Next trips

  • 27 September – 2 October 2026
  • 16 – 21 May 2027
  • 19 – 24 September 2027

Info & Bookings

The New Scientist Tour

A journey organised by The New Scientist Discovery Tour in collaboration with Rewilding Apennines, featuring a full day dedicated to our field activities.

This is a travel experience with a strong scientific focus, designed to explore the area through research, observation, and learning.

Next trips
May 2028

Info & Bookings

Moyo Training

Five days of training with the Moyo Training Foundation, focused on nature-based tourism, conservation, rewilding, and community engagement.

More than just a trip — an experience designed to understand what sustainable tourism truly means and how it is developed in practice.

Next trips

WEBINAR

  • January 2027

FIELD TRAINING

  • February/ March 2027

Info & Bookings

What to expect during the Rewilding Experiences

FIELD ACTIONS

Make a real contribution to rewilding by working alongside us in the field.

IMMERSION INTO THE WILD

Walk through the wild mountains of the central Apennines, observing wildlife and the signs it leaves behind.

MEETING WITH LOCAL PRODUCERS

Meet and exchange with the communities that daily coexist with wildlife.

Why join?

 

PARTICIPATE

Make a real contribution to rewilding by working alongside us in the field.

LEARN

The key concept of biodiversity conservation, coexistence, and rewilding.

SUPPORT

The travel experiences we offer help raise funds for coexistence actions through the Bear Fund — the Conservation Fund for the Marsican brown bear.

 

 

A journey through the ecological corridors to support nature conservation

Rewilding Experiences take place in two of the five ecological corridors of the Central Apennines, where our team carries out species and habitat monitoring, conservation actions, and environmental restoration. We work together with local authorities and communities to promote a widespread culture of coexistence between people and wildlife.

Our goal is to restore balance to ecosystems and involve people in the benefits that this daily work creates — a mission we see as essential for everyone’s wellbeing and quality of life.

These “coexistence corridors” connect the main protected areas and are vital for species such as the Marsican brown bear, the Apennine wolf, red deer, roe deer, wild boar, wildcat, griffon vulture, golden eagle, and many others.

Bruno D'Amicis / Rewilding Europe

Programme details

Rewilding Experiences follow a schedule set by the Rewilding Apennines team: each season brings different priorities, which are reflected in the activities proposed during the Rewilding Weeks.

Each experience is designed to support the daily work of our Field Officers involved in conservation and coexistence projects. Seasonal dynamics, landscape changes, and the rhythm of nature-based human activities shape the field programmes, which vary from week to week. For this reason, flexibility and adaptability are key qualities for participants.

During the Rewilding Weeks, participants may, for example:

  • take part in wildlife monitoring, with dawn or dusk observations and the use of camera traps;
  • contribute to environmental restoration by removing small illegal dumps or old barbed wire that hinders wildlife movement;
  • improve habitat quality by pruning abandoned orchards, increasing food resources for bears and other species;
  • install electric fences and bear-proof structures to support small livestock farmers, helping prevent damage and reduce conflicts;
  • meet the people who live and shape the ecological corridors — residents, entrepreneurs, students, volunteers — and hear their stories of coexistence;
  • explore the Apennine landscape with all your senses, discovering natural and cultural places and taking home an unforgettable memory of the experience!

We need to rewild the world” Sir. David Attenborough, the famous English popularizer and naturalist, has said with strength and convincement, after decades of observing the drift of natural processes all over the world because of human impact, with serious consequences for biodiversity and our species as well. As Rewilding Apennines we do our part to fulfill this mission and we’re daily committed to defend our natural resources from excessive exploitation and shorten the distance between the man and wild nature. If you want to discover up close how we do this, the Rewilding Weeks are the programme for you!

If you are a rewilding supporter and want to have a practical experience that concretely contributes to our rewilding efforts in Central Apennines, sign up via one of the registration forms or contact Enterprise Manager Valerio Reale for more information: valerio.reale@rewilding-apennines.com