Topics: Biodiversity

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• Community Event
• Ancient Woodland
• Biodiversity
• Communities
• Events
• Wilder Blean Initiative

Snap Elections, Bison calves and a runaway goat! 2024 has been a whirlwind, hasn’t it? Between surprise elections, England almost bringing football home, and the groundbreaking construction of bison bridges, it’s been a year to remember. But while the headlines grabbed our attention, what about the wildlife in Kent? Sally Smith, PR and Advocacy Manager for Kent Wildlife Trust takes us on a trip down memory lane to reflect on this wild year.

• Action for Nature
• Advocacy
• Biodiversity
• Bison
• Chough
• Climate change

In this episode of Talk on the Wild Side, Rob Smith joins Josie Cadwallader-Hughes, Sustainability Director for Thakeham. They talk all about Thakeham's efforts to make home development more environmentally-friendly - and to create more biodiverse sites than they started with.

• Biodiversity
• Biodiversity Net Gain
• Conservation
• Development
• Planning & Policy

How do you combine business and biodiversity? Can we create a new way of collaborating which benefits wildlife and people? Conservation at a landscape-scale needs everyone involved; no one person or organisation can tackle the challenges our natural spaces face alone, and the Blean is no exception. This concept has initiated our Blean Business and Biodiversity Network.

• Biodiversity
• Business
• Wilder Business
• Wilder Kent Strategy

James Barton, Ph.D student at University of Kent, dives into the upcoming BioBlitz at the uni in this blog.

• Biodiversity
• Citizen Science
• Wilder Kent Strategy

In episode 8 of Talk on the Wild Side, Rob Smith spoke to Bella Sabin-Dawson - Education & Wellbeing Apprentice - about her experiences with eco-anxiety, and to Sam Maddison about his studies of biodiversity as a Wildlife Conservation student at the University of Kent.

• Biodiversity
• Communities
• Conservation
• Eco-anxiety
• Newts
• Working in Conservation

Nicky Britton-Williams, Planning and Policy Manager at Kent Wildlife Trust, explains Biodiversity Net Gain and what developments and councils can do to help achieve the new mandatory targets set out by Government.

• Biodiversity
• Planning and Policy
• Towns and Councils

The strategy has been launched by Kent’s leading conservation charity outlining ways to make the county more resilient to the climate and nature crises. Through increasing land in conservation, managed through wilding and paid for by “Nature-based Solutions” the charity believes it can create a better future Kent’s people and wildlife.

• Press release
• Biodiversity
• Health and Wellbeing
• Wildlife

Spring is the perfect time to rewild your school and create a more sustainable and biodiverse campus.

• Biodiversity
• Families and Schools
• Schools

Climate change is considered to be one of the biggest long term threats to our natural environment and is one of the major challenges facing Kent Wildlife Trust as we plan for the future.

• Biodiversity
• Climate Crisis
• Wilder Kent Strategy