Eagle Reintroduction Wales

The Eagle Reintroduction Wales (ERW) is a community-based research project investigating whether the Welsh landscape is healthy enough to feasibly reintroduce two species of eagle – the White-tailed eagle and the Golden Eagle – sponsored by Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust.  

Both species were once widespread across lowland, upland and coastal areas of Wales, becoming locally extinct in the late 1800s. Reintroducing eagles here would help restore ecological balance by re-establishing a missing top predator, which in turn supports healthier ecosystems and greater biodiversity.  

The grant supports the project with ecological research, stakeholder engagement, and planning to ensure long-term success of any reintroduction and community support.  It also helped confirm feasibility – restoring White-tailed Eagles to Wales would be both feasible and beneficial to biodiversity, ecosystems and communities. Funding from ERF enabled the project to put in place all necessary strategies, management plans, methods, skills and logistical capacities to conduct White-tailed Eagle reintroductions, should the license application be successful.