Projects
Renaturing an inner London School
Set up in early 2024 and led by Jane, the William Ellis School Eco Club aims to re-nature the school grounds and put students at the centre of the project. Students have learned about the climate crisis, biodiversity loss, and how rewilding, restoration, and everyday choices can create positive change.
They’ve taken part in a range of opportunities, including EarthFest, a visit to a major recycling centre, and Camden’s Love Your Climate initiative, helping shape the next five-year Climate Action Plan. Guest speakers have taught them about local wildlife, and the students have also gained hands-on green skills: installing a 1000-litre pond with plants and a frog hibernaculum, planting trees, hedgerow species and wildflowers, and building hedgehog boxes, bird boxes and feeders. These efforts have already boosted local biodiversity. The newly planted trees are thriving and should eventually help cool the grounds and improve air quality.
More plans are underway—such as species monitoring, planting a fernery, installing water butts and much more.
This project will be rolled out to other schools. —so watch this space!
Learn to rewild - youth program
WildGen is currently running an ongoing programme that takes inner-city London children (aged 11-15) to a 150-acre ex-farmland site in Kent that is beginning its rewilding journey. Each month, children get to spend a full day on the land with two experienced session leaders/facilitators, engaging in hands-on rewilding/conservation work, nature arts and crafts, bushcraft and classroom-based rewilding lessons. The programme aims not only to improve on-site biodiversity but to increase participant well-being, resilience, environmental awareness, and green skills. And foster a deeper connection to nature and community.
Wild Card Ghost Woods campaign
From many submissions, Wild Card selected our Ghost Wood Shadow puppet artwork to be included with 9 other artists' for their Ghost Wood campaign!
The work will be published in a video zine and on social media.
In collaboration with The Forest School Way & Sophia Marinkov Jones, a London-based artist.
​This was an ambitious collaborative artwork that aimed to bring together the sounds and imagery of a group of children, including those from The Forest School Way and adult artists from the rewilding community. The artwork will tell the story of the Ghost Woods through shadow and sound. The shadows speak to the lost ancient woodlands of the past, but also to their possible resurrection from beneath commercial conifer plantations - the rewilding of the UK's Ghost woods.
For information, please see Wild Card
Home Educated children's rewilding day trip
As part of a free learning program, WildGen took a group of children to Rectory Rewilding in Kent. Here, the children carried out a hedgerow survey to establish its health and any future maintenance that may be required. The data was submitted to the owners as part of their site's baseline surveys to inform future works. Yellow rattle seeds were also collected from an on-site wildflower meadow to be stored ready for sowing in a donor field during early winter. Yellow rattle suppresses the growth of dominant grasses, allowing for more wildflowers to establish, which in turn provide a food source for many species, helping to increase biodiversity. The day was rounded off with tosting marshmallows on an open fire and meeting Truckee, the resident pig and his pal Carl the dog! A follow-on art project in collaboration with The Forest School Way is taking place, looking at extinct species and those being introduced to the UK with this group.
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Trying to dam an outlet pipe as the sound of running water, which may mean a leaky dam, is not what beavers like to hear!
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A large tree gnawed by the Beavers showing the power of their teeth and jaws and shear determination!
Branches firmly pushed into the pond substrate as part of the beavers home called a lodge
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Seniz showing an information board
Wildlife badges for all
The beautiful wetland creation that beavers do best.
WildGen Youth Trip to The Ealing Beaver Project
https://theealingbeaverproject.com/
On the 21st March 2026 we took a group of children (aged 11 to 15 years) to the amazing Ealing Beaver Project.
Yes Beavers are back in London and If you haven’t been, it's a must visit.
The group learnt all about Beavers and the project from Seniz Mustafa, who is the project's Urban Beaver Officer. Seniz explained what a beaver was, where they can be found in the world and what they like to eat (Beavers are strict herbivores and do not eat fish! a mistake partly believed due to CS Lewis's Narnia Chronicles)
Seniz also explained why beavers became extinct in the UK.​
Evidence suggests that beavers may have lingered in small isolated populations until 1789. Overhunting by humans for their valuable fur, meat, and castoreum (a scent gland secretion used for medicine and perfume) led to their subsequent extinction.
Seniz explained that a family of five Eurasian beavers arrived in Ealing in 2023.
Beavers are incredible environmental engineers. Using their powerful teeth and dam building skills to cut and move timber around creating their lodge pile homes and managing water levels in their local environment.
The purpose of the reintroduction, apart from seeing these charismatic beings and sharing our city with them, was to tap into this ability to create a flourishing wetland, improve biodiversity, and mitigate flood risks in the urban environment.
The group were shown around the site to see first hand what these incredible animals can achieve.
The group loved their visit and asked many fantastic questions keen to learn more about beavers. We aim to return for a night time safari to see the beavers busy at work! Since their introduction, the beavers have successfully bred, with kits born in 2024, confirming the family is thriving.
National Emergency Briefing
In April this year, WildGen representatives attended the borough of Camden National Emergency Briefing. Hosted by Chris Packham this event showed The National Emergency Briefing film, which showed the evidence based threats to our national security, food security, public health and economy due to the climate and nature crisis. Following the film a Q&A with an expert panel was chaired by Chris Packham to discuss how we can all take action.
If you haven't seen the film we highly recommend you find a viewing near you and ask that you please sign the petition calling for the government to stage a prime time televised national emergency briefing of its own to inform the nation of the risks of the climate and nature crisis and what we need to do, so that we as a society can take action. WildGen also hopes to be able to show this film in schools.
To visit the National Ememergency Briefing website click link bellow
