“Helping nature to recover requires more land to be managed differently, both in the scale of activity and how the management is undertaken. While change can be difficult, nature recovery projects, such as Sapperton Wilder, are making real strides in thinking carefully about how this change is communicated to the local community and those who visit the area.
By valuing them, including them in conversations and, if they wish, in some of the land management activities it is possible to increase mutual understandings and awareness around the why and how of nature recovery.
The benefits of this are real and on-going for the project, the local community and those who visit.”
- Chris Short, Associate Professor in Environmental Governance at the Countryside and Community Research Institute (CCRI)
