DIRECTOR

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VALUING OUR NATURAL WORLD

HEALTHY LAND, HEALTHY WATER, HEALTHY HORSE

Farm Adviser – ‘Upstream Thinking’ (Cober & Stithians Catchments)

Cornwall Wildlife Trust

 Has been studying, volunteering, working, contracting and consulting in the Environmental Sector since the late 1980s, the majority of which has been focused on Nature Conservation and related sustainable land management practices. Grew up in rural Norfolk, and came to the west Country in 1994 to study a degree in Environmental Science, and never left. Has worked for four county Wildlife Trusts in both East Anglia and the South West, including working for Cornwall Wildlife Trust since 2012. Has been focused on farmer & landowner advisory work for approx. 18 years, including 12 years advising on practical farmland management, agri-environment schemes, plant nutrient applications, and sustainable soil and water management in Cornwall; but qualifications in ecological science and a love of biological recording underpins all his work. Has been working in the priority River Cober catchment (and more recently the Stithians Reservoir catchment) for over 9 years, and has facilitated landowner and community engagement and demonstrable environmental improvements during that time.

DISCOVERING YOUR NATURE RECOVERY POTENTIAL

Cheryl has worked at Cornwall Wildlife Trust for almost 20 years and has seen nature conservation grow from being a niche interest to something many more of us are involved in. Cheryl’s focus is working well cross-sector to bring nature back; after all we are all in this mess together.

Discovering your Nature Recovery Potential- what can we each do for wildlife, and how can we help each other to deliver even more.

GRANT FUNDING FOR SMALLER LANDOWNERS AND MANAGERS

Sylvie is a farm adviser for Cornwall Wildlife Trust, as well as an independent consultant, working with farmers on a range of projects in West Cornwall including involvement with Farming in Protected Landscapes, Farm Cornwall, Natural Flood Management and pollution prevention projects. A lot of her time currently is spent helping farmers decide their options for environmental payments and helping them to apply. Sylvie is on the BASIS register as an accredited environmental adviser.

TEN TIPS FOR TREMENDOUS TREES

Justin Evens is a Civil Engineer who spent most of his career building roads and water supplies overseas. 

In the mid 1980's his first experience was planting over 8,000 eucalyptus seedlings to stabilise spoil tips in southern Tanzania. One week later every single one was dead!

His success rate has improved slightly since then. In the early 90's he began planting up a very windy 20 acre site in Ireland and the resulting woodland is now marked for posterity on the Irish OS map. 

In 2017 he moved to The Lizard and did the same thing by planting a mixture of broadleaves on an exposed 5 acre site near Ruan Minor which was visited by our Any-Size Landowners Group earlier this year.

Justin has a university masters degree in Environmental Forestry and has been propagating, planting and establishing trees off and on for over 35 years. 

His experience includes all stages from initial seed collecting, processing and storage; through to germination and growing on in nursery beds, lifting and culling; then planting, creating shelter, fencing and protection; through to aftercare and some years later, pruning and thinning.

Justin's talk today aims to provide practical guidance to both experienced land managers and aspiring newcomers to ensure their trees survive, grow healthily and grow fast right from the start.   

CONNECTING to NATURE through ART

Alice Wonder has been passionately holding groups in nature for the past 10 years. Her training in forest school and ecopsychology has lead her to work with varied groups in Cornwall. She feels that people intentionally connecting to nature, is a vital part of nature recovery. She currently runs a weekly Nature Playgroup and works freelance. 

She is also a musician with an art background and loves bringing creativity to her sessions.

"We know how much nature can benefit our health, but how much do we realise that our health and the planet's health is intrinsically linked?"

Alice Wonder is a harpist and composer living on the Lizard Peninsula, Cornwall.   With over 15 years experience playing the harp Alice covers a variety of popular music and traditional tunes, she also writes her own music and performs at venues around Cornwall with her beautiful songs as well as being part of the sea strings, a unique harp and violin duet.

CONNECTING to NATURE through ART

Tanya is a Director of Wildlife Groundswell and a facilitator of Climate cafe, listening circles. 

She has taught Yoga and Meditation in Cornwall for over 25 years and has trained in Authentic Relating.

Tanya considers herself an activated human, awake and aware of the Climate and Ecological crisis. She yearns for change, where nature and love are at the centre of all that we do. 

She recognises that change needs to come from within, looking deeply at our patterns of behaviour and our conditioning. 

Tanya feels this work isn’t for us to do alone but for us to do it in community, supporting each other as we deepen our connection to ourselves, to each other and to our beautiful Earth.

CONNECTING to NATURE through ART

Sarah enjoys painting and her art is always inspired by nature. She likes to volunteer for wildlife conservation projects and is sometimes found talking to butterflies. She volunteers with the National Trust on the Woodland Ranger Team and Wildlife Groundswell helping run their website.