Category: Conservation
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HedgeCanada Revisited: healing the landscape and connecting communities with a new hedgerow story
– Way back in the mists of time I completed a short school project on the Monarch butterfly Danaus plexippus. Young Jim had read an article in a magazine with a picture of a tree dressed from root to branch in thousands of Monarchs. He learned about the incredible migration of this beautiful butterfly up and down Central…
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Smeuse, smout and squiggle: the language of hedgerows
Working on a new Citizen Science project Hedgerow Heroes for Surrey Wildlife Trust, I am exploring the connections between people and hedgerows and how we can use past relationships with this important semi-natural habitat to shape future ideas about sense of place and environmental stewardship. One measure of our connectedness to nature is how…
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Go with the flow: PeoplePower turns up trumps
Turning a frown into a smile amongst ordinary people working to improve their environment Today started badly there is no doubt about that. The US became even more of a theme park than usual and an Orange Man who hates almost everyone but himself had become President. Yet haven’t most of us known for some time that 21st…
James T Jones 