Wildlife Warden Podcast – Ep8

Rewilding with pigs and the importance of COP 26

Episode 8 of the Devon Wildlife Warden Podcast – Click here to listen, or here to read.

This episode brings you:

Updates from the Wildlife Warden Scheme.
Interviews about rewilding with Elliott Fairs (Wildlife Warden for Doddiscombsleigh) and Laura Fairs (Rewilding Lead at Embercombe, and one of the founders of the Devon Wildland Initiative). Emily even got to meet their very noisy pigs, which they use to create diverse habitats!
COP26 – What it is, and why it is important for future of wildlife as well as our climate?
Information about a petition to save important wildlife habitat from development at Tipner West, Portsmouth.

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Richard Weaving was at the heart of wildlife conservation in Teignbridge for over 25 years, first as the Teignbridge District Council Ranger at Dawlish Warren and later as TDC's Head of Countryside Management. Richard supported us Rangers when we had 'great ideas' - and one of them was starting a small Wildlife Warden Scheme, through which some of our expert Volunteers could share their knowledge out in the countryside. It was a popular and successful scheme, but budgets and the Ranger team shrank, so after a few years, it had to end... Sadly, around 2006 Richard was diagnosed with a particulalry fast-developing form of Parkinsons Disease, and had to retire early. When he died in 2019, his family donated the collection from his Memorial Service to help our new Teignbridge Wildlife Warden Scheme - a wonderful way to remember his many year's of hard work for wildlife! Written by Audrey Compton, Action on Climate in Teignbridge's Wildlife Warden and Ecology Lead - and a TDC Ranger from 1993-2008)