20th January

Tom Hook, Forest of Flowers 

17th February - Howardian Hills National Landscape priorities 

Ellie Hook, Howardian Hills

17th March - Rewilding in Yorkshire and the work of the Yorkshire Rewilding Network

Jeff Davitt, Yorkshire Rewilding Network 

The Yorkshire Rewilding Network is a charity founded in 2020 to bring together anyone in the region with an interest in rewilding.  In this talk, Jeff Davitt, Co-Founder and Trustee of YRN, will describe some the rewilding projects happening in Yorkshire, what YRN does, and how everyone can be involved.

21st April - Exploring the woodlands for Castle Howard 

Castle Howard 

16th June - Practical experience of "No-fence" collars for conservation grazing, challenges and opportunities

Ben Fargher

21st July - Why and how is rewilding being implented across Britain?

Lauren Barnes, University of York 

This presentation will outline how and why rewilding is being interpreted and operationalised across Britain by different landowners and practitioners. Interest in rewilding across Britain has grown in recent years. Within academia, research has mainly focused on attempts to define rewilding and document its origins. In practice, rewilding is interpreted and implemented depending on the desires and needs of the practitioner within the spatial and ecological bounds of the project. To better understand the reality of rewilding implementation on the ground, I spoke to various different landowners and practitioners across Britain who have self identified their project as rewilding. I will present an overview of outcomes of these conversations to provide an insight into the motivations which initiated the decision to adopt a rewilding approach and the management implementations being utilised to achieve a rewilding vision.