This week's guest is Dr Tony Whitbread, independent ecologist and former Chief Executive of Sussex Wildlife Trust. Tony joined me to talk about rewilding - what wild means in a modern 21st country, and how it relates to other kinds of nature conservation that continue and which have gone before. We explored the various scales at which we can think about rewilding, the difference between applying in urban and non-urban areas, the obstacles we’ll face in linking up the core areas of wild space and bringing them into our cities - and how we can overcome them, both practically and in terms of how to communicate the benefits with the wider population.

Talking points include:

-Rethinking value

-What ragwort can tell us about how to communicate rewilding 

-How far does a policy like biodiversity net gain get us without enforcement?

-Nature recovery networks as a framework for thinking about outcomes

-Regenerative economics as a guide to post-CV recovery

-What George Monbiot gets wrong about rewilding

Tony's 3 good things:

Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari - via bookstore.org

George Monbiot on Twitter - https://twitter.com/georgemonbiot

The Mens and Ebernoe Common nature reserves

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