A wild GardenDownload By Betsy Gorman an exploration of how to make your green space just that little bit wild. Follow the journey of a garden as it goes from a mown lawn to a space where animals and plants…
Rewilding Sussex
The importance of natural disturbance in ecological systems
By Daniel Maude (Dan is a MRes student at the University of Sussex and produced this outstanding report as part of his research. It gives a really nice overview of what natural disturbance is and why it is important. Restoring…
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Rewilding in Britain: Can people and nature thrive together?
Talk by Chris Sandom for the U3A society. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JF0tI0f9-i8
A framework for understanding what rewilding is (in Britain)
There is still plenty of discussion about what rewilding means. Like many words that describe how people interact with nature (e.g. agriculture and conservation), rewilding doesn't have a single method of implementation. This framework attempts to provide a pragmatic description…
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Nature in Lockdown
by Tom Dando It’s hard to steer clear of coronavirus and the bombardment of news, information and sobering statistics at home and abroad. However, more and more throughout this time, I’ve found myself tuning into the sounds and sights of…
The BLUE campaign “Rewilding Britain garden by garden”
By Betsy Gorman The BLUE campaign all started in Chipping Sodbury in 2017 with the idea that a community can band together and connect people with wildlife friendly green spaces. We worked under the principle that setting aside even a…
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Does rewilding need a social vision to achieve its ecological goals?
By Tom Dando I didn’t want to write another piece on nature’s decline, or another grand piece on rewilding, instead and in my opinion just as importantly, I thought I would discuss the need to explore our relationship with nature…
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What Knowledge, Skills, Experience and Qualities do you need to be a Rewilder?
We hope that rewilding is going to become a fantastic career opportunity sooner rather than later. And what a career it could be! A great opportunity to connect with nature and people. Do you want such a career? If so,…
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Wilding Parks & Verges Part 3- Keeping the “green” in greenspace
By Veronica Wignall Since the coronavirus pandemic struck the UK in early 2020, many of us have come to value our local greenspace more than ever before. For people living in a city or town, local parks in particular have…
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Wilding Parks & Verges Part 2- Flower up: managing road verges for wildlife
By Veronica Wignall All over the country, road verges have started to undergo a transformation. This is thanks in part to Plantlife UK and other conservation charities who have raised awareness of what researchers have been shouting about for decades:…
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