This is a conversation with Elliot Newton and Ben Stockwell of Citizen Zoo, a Community Interest Company that are rewilding urban areas with communities.
We talk about:
- What rewilding in the city means
- Grazing animals in urban green spaces
- Reintroducing water voles and beavers to London
- Bringing white storks back to London
- The challenges and opportunities of rewilding cities
Links
Citizen Zoo website: https://www.citizenzoo.org/
This is part of the urban rewilding podcast series. Listen to all the episodes in the series here: https://greenurbanistpod.com/rewilding
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