Wilding Wimborne
Who Are We?
We are a group of local individuals and groups who are concerned about the biodiversity crisis and want to do something about it.
What's The Issue?
What's Our Aim?
1. To bring the Wimborne community together to raise
awareness and address the local loss of insects and other wildlife.
2. To reduce the impact of items and activities that are harmful to wildlife: for example, limit the use of herbicides and pesticides; avoid peat-based compost; reduce light pollution.
3. To build homes for wildlife and erect them around the town and in people’s own gardens as community activities.
4. To provide food for wildlife and increase the native flora in the town by Identifying suitable areas and planting them with native wildflowers.
5. To increase the tree canopy cover from 15% to 20%. by undertaking planting on green spaces, streets and the river valleys, while providing a diversity of tree species to provide food and habitat for wildlife.
6. To provide opportunities for people to interact with nature through events, walks, planting and growing fruit and vegetables for the benefit of the local community.
7. To protect our rivers by monitoring their health and pollution events.
How Do We Achieve This?
In addition to and within Wilding Wimborne are five projects, each focusing on a distinct area of activity to increase diversity in and around Wimborne; Trees for Wimborne, Rivers for Wimborne, Hedgehog Friendly Wimborne, Bee Friendly Wimborne and Wimborne Swifts. Please click the button below to go straight to the Our Projects page for more information.
News/Announcements
Bumble Bees need our help
Bumble bees are suffering terribly in this hot weather, please click here to see how you can help.
National Emergency Briefing. Please see below links to see all the lectures in full.
Professor Mike Berners Lee: Author and leading thinker on the systemic risks facing humanity.
Professor Nathalie Seddon: Founding Director of the Nature-based Solutions Initiative and The Agile Initiative at the University of Oxford.
Professor Kevin Anderson: Professor of energy and climate change at the Universities of Manchester, Uppsala and Bergen.
Professor Tim Lenton: Founding Director of the Global Systems Institute at the University of Exeter.
Professor Hayley Fowler: Professor of Climate Change Impacts at Newcastle University.
Professor Paul Behrens: British Academy Global Professor and expert in food system transformations.
Professor Hugh Montgomery: Director of the Centre for Human Health at University College London.
Lt General Richard Nugee: CB CVO CBE
Senior British Army Officer (retired).
Angela Francis: Policy expert in green economics.
Tessa Khan: Energy transition expert.
Contact Us
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