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…
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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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Wilding Parks & Verges Part 1- Bringing Nature Back
By Veronica Wignall Imagine for a moment that you are a bee. Or for that matter, a songbird, beetle, fox or hoverfly. Where are you hanging out these days? Where are you finding the food, nesting spaces and company you…
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How to rewild your garden
How do we get into the rewilding mindset?The key thing to remember is that rewilding is an approach not a target, you are not deciding what your wild patches will look like or which plants will grow where. It is…
The New Rewilding Sussex Logo
Rewilding is all about giving nature the opportunity to recover on its own by creating large core nature areas, connecting them up with wildlife corridors, and returning important missing species, known as keystone species. These ideas are fundamental to Rewilding…
A New Era
Rewilding Sussex has been in existence for close on 5 years. We have seen ups and downs in terms of activity and projects, but as of recently we have been building new momentum and garnering more support for a vision…
