Archive of: Landscape Innovation
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06 August 2020
Ground breaking decision for British beavers
After years of uncertainty, the Government has announced their ground breaking decision to allow England’s first wild breeding population of beavers to stay in their Devon home.
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28 February 2020
Is it as simple as planting trees to reduce flood risk?
We have seen widespread calls for increased tree planting, primarily in tackling climate change, Sam Buckland from Sussex Flow Initiative looks at the issues.
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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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12 February 2020
Vision, Action, Partnership: Reflections on the Landscape Innovation Conference
Dr Chris Sandom was really excited to be invited by Fran Southgate from the Sussex Wildlife Trust to help organise and host the Landscape Innovation Conference. Now the conference is complete Chris wanted to share a few thoughts.
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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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23 January 2020
Tree - to plant or not to plant, that is the question
When is it right to plant trees? And how do we do it right?
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13 January 2020
Trees and the climate emergency
Dr Tony Whitbread tackles the issue raised from his previous blog, as we are in a climate emergency, the priority must be to get the trees in the ground as an emergency action
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07 January 2020
The trouble with trees
The creation of forests and woods can be a major contribution to restoring nature and can draw carbon out of the atmosphere, so helping fight climate change. However, done badly, tree planting and tree regeneration can cause major ecological damage.
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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.