Local Explorer Scouts returned to the Chatham Green Project on the 9th February to help plant some more trees and to experience our Mongolian Yurt. Later this year, the group will be taking a trip over to Mongolia and will spend two nights sleeping inside a yurt similar to ours. During the tea break we [...]
Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal visited the Chatham Green Project to plant a tree and open our new Diamond Jubilee wood
During one of the hedgerow surveys I came across an Ash tree with a very old (non-biodegradable!) tree guard flat against the trunk. I estimated that the tree was about 30 or so years old and seemed to be in good condition. It was part of a very small plantation opposite Hyde Hall. I've yet [...]
Luke Baker is raising money for his Tall Ships Race in July 2013. He will be racing from Helsinki to Chatham Docks aboard the Morning Star of Revelation - a 62ft gaff ketch yacht. At the time this video was made, he had planted 150 trees and plans to plant even more in the coming [...]
Roger Tabor - TV presenter, cat expert and chairman of the British Naturalists' Association visited the 'Chatham Green Project' on the 31st December 2012 to contribute to our new Diamond Jubilee Wood. Roger met with staff from the Wilderness Foundation UK's 'Chatham Green Project' and together they planted 15 Small-leaved Lime (Tilia cordata). Roger was [...]
Over the last couple of weeks we have slowly built our traditional Mongolian Yurt. We secured planning permission for the structure several weeks back but had to wait until the weather was in our favour and plenty of helping hands were available. Nature doesn't listen to human plans so we ended up completing the yurt [...]
Today 4 members of staff from Epping Forest Woodland Burial Park visited The Chatham Green Project to help plant our Diamond Jubilee wood.
Over 1200 trees were planted this past weekend when the Wilderness Foundation UK and Strutt & Parker Farms hosted the first of many community tree planting days to celebrate the creation of Her Majesty The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Wood on their site in Chatham Green. Around 80 people attended with visitors coming from as far [...]
In an attempt to establish a methodology for insect and arachnid surveying, we installed some pitfall traps in the ancient woodland on our site. The Pitfall Trap Survey is used to establish spatial distribution patterns in seasonal insect occurrence, to compare relative abundance in different micro-habitats, to study daily activity rhythms, and in community surveys. [...]
Recently I finished conducting Ecosystem Service Assessment in accordance with the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA). The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment report views the natural systems as a life sustaining system to humankind providing essential ecosystem services (Ecosystem and Human Well-being - A Framework for Assessment). The benefits that humanity derives from the natural resources and processes [...]
A MARISCO workshop was conducted today with the Wilderness Foundation UK staff members. The workshop was similar to the one he conducted with the local community on July 26. The staff members were asked to identify the project targets and subsequent threats to them. The workshop turned out to be an interesting discussion forum for [...]
Grass Roots Conservation for the 21st Century One of the biggest challenges facing mankind is how we balance all of our needs. When I say ‘we’ I really do mean WE because it has to be a joint effort with all parties working towards a common goal. In reality, this is often extremely difficult as [...]
"Last night we did our first MARISCO Open Standards threat analysis workshop. Well done and thanks to all who attended! We had a couple of latecomers today which I have added in. I will arrange another workshop in the near future to go over the strategies to deal with the threats and contributing factors we [...]
After kayaking almost 350 kilometres down the waterways of northern Botswana, dodging hippos and crocs, walking 125 kilometres through the Chobe National Park from Savuti Marsh to Goha Gate, and then kayaking another 232 kilometres on the mighty Zambezi river, the Tracks of Giants team reached the waterfront on the edge of Livingstone, Zambia on [...]
We wanted to let you know about a forthcoming Facilitative Leadership® workshop which may be of interest to Friends and followers of the Wilderness Foundation UK. The three day programme, being delivered by the Interaction Institute for Social Change, will take place in Belfast on Tuesday 17th – Thursday 19th April, 2012. For more information on the Facilitative Leadership workshop [...]