A growing record of the regenerative and sustainability projects we have featured, week by week.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
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Fossil fuel generation on Britain's grid fell below 1 GW for the first time in April 2026. Renewables reached 53.1% of Q1 electricity, up 7.4 percentage points on 2025.
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🇦🇺 Australia
CSIRO's larval seedbox has given hundreds of thousands of baby corals a second chance on the Great Barrier Reef, with settlement rates up to 56 times higher than previous methods.
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🇧🇪 Belgium
Belgium's Flanders region has finished 139 kilometres of new cycle lanes and refurbished a further 1,351 kilometres by June 2026, backed by the EU Recovery and Resilience Facility.
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🇬🇧 Northumberland, England
Land restoration firm RESTORE has bought Emblehope Estate from the Royal Kennel Club for £9 million, launching a 30-year peatland and biodiversity recovery project across 3,035 hectares.
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🇷🇼 Rwanda · Uganda · Ethiopia · DRC
US developer Renewvia will invest $750 million into solar mini-grids across Rwanda, Uganda, Ethiopia and the DRC, targeting around 2.1 million new electricity connections.
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🇪🇺 Spain · Portugal
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The Iberian lynx population grew nearly 11% in 2025 to over 2,400 individuals across the Peninsula. From 62 cats in 2001 to 542 breeding females and 952 new cubs last year.
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🇸🇪 Sweden
The Stegra plant in northern Sweden is making its first commercial steel using green hydrogen, replacing coal with electrolysed water in a 2.5 million tonne per year facility.
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🇬🇧 England
A new Wildlife-Rich Habitat Fund will deliver thousands of hectares of restored habitat across 36 of England's 44 National Parks, National Landscapes and the Broads from 2026 to 2029.
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🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Plantlife's Meadow Makers programme has restored over 400 hectares of species-rich grassland, with a £8 million National Highways partnership bringing 100 more hectares online by 2030.
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🇰🇪 Kenya
Community-led mangrove restoration in Lamu County has planted 16.5 million trees across 1,120 hectares, with over 38,000 hectares of standing mangrove now under active conservation management.
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🇬🇧 England
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Natural England has licensed up to 20 white-tailed eagles to be released over three years on Exmoor. The first breeding pair in England in 240 years bred on the Isle of Wight in 2023.
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🇸🇪 Sweden
Three dams removed in the Vindel River catchment have opened 102 kilometres of free-flowing water for salmon and trout. Two more dams come down in 2026 as Europe's dam-removal wave accelerates.
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🇬🇧 United Kingdom
A five-year RSPB programme has restored hundreds of hectares of coastal wetland grazing marsh, built 50 new nesting islands, and lifted populations of lapwing, redshank, avocet and common tern.
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🇬🇧 United Kingdom
RWE's 1.4 GW Sofia wind farm in the North Sea is being energised through 2026, with 100 turbines set to deliver enough renewable electricity to power 1.2 million typical UK homes each year.
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🇧🇷 Brazil
Brazil's Amazon deforestation has fallen 50% since 2022, and the country has committed to securing 59 million additional hectares of Indigenous land over the next five years.
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🇬🇧 Scotland
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New transect data across the Northwoods Rewilding Network shows bird territories up 546% and pollinator abundance up tenfold. The clearest evidence yet that rewilding works at landscape scale.
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🇬🇧 England
Government extends the Nature for Climate Peatland Grant to 2027, with fresh agreements designed to bring more than 4,000 additional hectares of peat into active restoration.
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🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Round seven of the Contracts for Difference scheme awarded a record 189 projects, totalling 6.2 GW of new wind, solar and tidal, with four tidal stream contracts among them.
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🇪🇺 Europe-wide
From near extinction in 1927 to a free-roaming population of 7,000 across nine countries. New 2026 research links bison rewilding to measurable carbon storage and woodland recovery.
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🇺🇸 United States
Mote Marine Laboratory has released the first hatchery-bred Caribbean king crabs onto a Florida Keys reef, a long-anticipated step in restoring grazing balance to bleached coral systems.
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🇬🇧 United Kingdom
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Knepp's two-decade ecological review shows nightingales up 511%, dragonflies up 871% and turtle doves bouncing back. A UK rewilding blueprint with mounting, measurable results.
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🇬🇧 Cornwall, UK
Cornwall Wildlife Trust has carried out the county's first fully licensed wild beaver release. It's part of a wave that could see 100 beavers re-enter English rivers in 2026.
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🇬🇧 Sussex, UK
Mussel beds stretching over a kilometre, returning Black Sea Bream, and the first new kelp at Shelley Rocks. The UK's largest marine rewilding project hits its five-year milestone.
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🇪🇺 UK · France · Belgium
A new four-year deal puts around 230 farmers across the UK, France and Belgium into a verified soil-carbon programme tied to wheat, corn, barley and sugar beet supply chains.
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🇮🇩 Indonesia
The Coral Triangle Center has installed 1,088 reef stars and transplanted 16,320 coral fragments in Nusa Penida, restoring 652 m² of destroyed reef in the heart of the Coral Triangle.
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