Archive of: Re Wilding Conservation
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23 January 2020
Help Our Kelp - Byelaw Update
The pioneering campaign to restore a vast underwater Kelp forest off the Sussex coast achieved its first major milestone, as the introduction of a critical new byelaw has been agreed.
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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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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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25 November 2019
Creating Climate Capacity
On January 23 2020, we will be holding a Landscape Innovation Conference in partnership with Sussex University. This Conference is a first step for us, in helping to support and inspire local people to find solutions to the climate crisis.
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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.
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07 October 2019
Sussex Kelp
Ian Hendry from the Blue Marine Foundation writes about the Sussex Kelp initiative
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31 July 2019
The language of the land
In a world which is inundated by emoji’s, texts, emails, podcasts, tweets, blogs, chats, posts, etc, it can be hard to hear the language of the natural world around us. Fran Southgate writes about the power of words in nature conservation.
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24 June 2019
Natural Climate Solutions
Can we really avert Climate Crisis ?
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23 April 2019
Wilding will help tackle climate change
Rewilding and the restoration of our natural systems can draw millions of tonnes of CO2 out of the air. We can help to stop climate breakdown, but we need to be innovative, and we need to act fast.
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18 April 2019
Where did barn owls live before we built barns?
In our human-centric way, we create human solutions to wildlife problems – problems which are generally caused by humans in the first place. Fran Southgate argues that we need a bit of a conservation brain retrofit.
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18 December 2018
Behaving like beavers
Our Sussex Flow Initiative Project Officers are mimicking what our ancient natural ecosystem engineers, the beaver, would have done naturally.