The Central Apennines are just a couple of hours from Rome, and yet this is a landscape where Italian wolves roam, Marsican brown bears awake from season-long slumbers and native crayfish gather in crystal clear pools.

The team here is absolutely passionate about people and place. They intertwine the need for species conservation and restoring landscape-scale ecological functions with promoting sustainable businesses and growing an unbreakable connection between communities and their surrounding environment.

The Central Apennines is one of ten inspiring Rewilding Landscapes across the continent, set up by Rewilding Europe with local teams on the ground.