The Lifescape Project

The Lifescape Project is a UK-based conservation charity founded in 2017. It works to restore and protect wild landscapes by combining science, law, technology, and community engagement, with initiatives ranging from ecosystem restoration to species reintroduction. 

The UK was once home to a rich community of mammals similar to those now returning in parts of mainland Europe. Over the past two thousand years, many have been driven to extinction, while others survive only in isolated pockets. 

The ERF grant is supporting Lifescape’s work on a collaborative and multidisciplinary feasibility study of the reintroduction of keystone species into England and Wales, such as the Eurasian Lynx. The broad areas of work included ecological habitat suitability assessment and population viability, legal and licensing considerations, conflict management and mitigation and practicalities of source populations and approaches to release.