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Reflecting on Community and Environmental Change

I have spent the last few days back on my home patch, in north Essex, doing a whistle stop tour of visits to see family and friends before I return to the west country later today. I’m not often one to get homesick but when you return to the place where you grew up somethingContinueContinue reading “Reflecting on Community and Environmental Change”

Drawing ’20 Days Wild’ to a close

The old saying ‘a week is a long time in politics’ has never rung quite so true as for the past week. This time last week the news that Britain was leaving the European Union was starting to sink in. There was jubilation from some and utter horror and shock from others. The short termContinueContinue reading “Drawing ’20 Days Wild’ to a close”

’20 Days Wild’ – days 6&7 – Exmoor

Days six and seven of my ’20 days wild’ experience were spent experiencing the same place through two completely different channels, one of which did not actually involve going outdoors. One of the projects I am working on currently is based at the National Trust’s Holnicote Estate in West Somerset. The estate marks the northernContinueContinue reading “’20 Days Wild’ – days 6&7 – Exmoor”

Searching for Common Ground in Rewilding at the Hay Festival

Yesterday I returned to the Cotswolds after a sojourn to the Black Mountains and the Hay Festival (and an unfortunate brief stop on the A417 as a result of car problems). The occasion was to attend rural commentator Rob Yorke’s discussion panel event at Hay which was themed around ‘rewilding’ (quite a popular subject forContinueContinue reading “Searching for Common Ground in Rewilding at the Hay Festival”

Moving towards a Rewilding Policy

At the Rewilding Dorset event a few weeks ago I was able to speak to Professor Paul Jepson from Oxford University who gave a presentation on the day about the need to link rewilding to the policy agenda, if it is to gain any real traction in the future. Earlier this week Paul released aContinueContinue reading “Moving towards a Rewilding Policy”