Archive of: Fran Southgate
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16 February 2020
The subtle makings of a wild place
The natural world is a subtle place, pulsing with intricacies and symbioses - often ignored or misunderstood by us. What does it mean to be natural or wild?
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04 February 2020
How to use 'Regenerative Agriculture' to increase soil carbon
A livestock farmer from East Sussex blogs about how regenerative farming can improve soil health
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03 February 2020
Beaver back in Sussex
After an absence of over 400 years, the beaver is coming back to Sussex.
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25 January 2020
Buzzing with ideas
Fran Southgate shares her thoughts on the Landscape Innovation Conference
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11 January 2020
Meet the Experts
On 23 January, Sussex Wildlife Trust and Sussex University will host our first Conference for Climate Action and Landscape Innovation where we come together to design future biodiversity and climate resilience for the County.
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08 January 2020
New Year Revolutions
As we the start the New Year and a new decade, many of us have already set our intentions for the Year to come. Here at the Sussex Wildlife Trust, our intention is to continue to be one of the most effective advocates for wildlife in Sussex - and because it is the single greatest challenge of our time for people and wildlife, we intend to do our best to tackle climate change.
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18 December 2019
Soil - the biodiversity underworld
Soil is an amazing thing. Without soil we wouldn’t eat much, yet so many of us still see it as just dirt. Healthy soils store more carbon than the world’s oceans, and they are one of the most under publicised, wildlife-rich habitats on the planet.
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06 December 2019
Regenerative agriculture and landscape innovation
There is an urgent need to find high impact, landscape scale, community based solutions to the climate and biodiversity crises. With around 70% of UK land designated as farmland, many eyes have naturally focused on the farming world to come up with the solutions.
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04 December 2019
If you only do twelve things for wildlife...
What are the 12 best things you can do for wildlife?
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26 November 2019
Something to crow about
The results of just a few dedicated volunteers grafting to create natural flood storage in their local woodland were more spectacular than we could have hoped for.
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12 November 2019
Rewilding Parliament
Thanks to the support of over 100,000 people who signed a petition, Rewilding Britain were able to secure a parliamentary debate, and a unanimous vote, that restoring nature on a massive scale to help stop climate breakdown is a priority.
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24 October 2019
Landscape Innovation - What is it and why do we need it?
To try and integrate some of the more novel wildlife conservation ideas with the old, Sussex Wildlife Trust and Sussex University are hosting a Landscape Innovation Conference in early 2020.