Rewilding Information Website

Hi RFers,

As some may know, I'm a BSc student in my final year, and one of the things I am doing as part of an assessed final project is producing a portfolio of material which communicates a scientific area to people of varying levels of education in related fields.

One of those which I have newly completed is a website which talks about rewilding, an area of wildlife conservation, and is aimed primarily at a scientifically uneducated audience. This is an area of growing importance in conservation, and one which it seems will become quite prominent in the future. A few famous projects have already begun in Europe, Siberia and North America, as well as numerous smaller-scale projects across the world.

The website I've produced focuses on rewilding efforts in upland British ecosystems. It aims to give the general public a bit of a grounding on what rewilding is and why it's useful, in hopes that it will encourage more support for it.

If anybody who's interested could please have a look at it, read the material there, and fill out the feedback form, that would be just awesome.

https://www.uplandrewilding.co.uk/

Hate to be negative, but I don't much care for the moving font on the home page.

Sunstone said:

Hate to be negative, but I don't much care for the moving font on the home page.

Click to expand...

You mean the way it scrolls past a lot quicker than the picture behind it?

Kirran said:

You mean the way it scrolls past a lot quicker than the picture behind it?

Click to expand...

Exactly!

Sunstone said:

Exactly!

Click to expand...

OK, thanks. I'll take it on board. Maybe I'll edit it in when I get back.

I like the photos of the rewildering sites in the UK. Wish there were more photos.

The "What is Wildering" page is wonderfully interesting and informative.

Kirran said:

Hi RFers,

As some may know, I'm a BSc student in my final year, and one of the things I am doing as part of an assessed final project is producing a portfolio of material which communicates a scientific area to people of varying levels of education in related fields.

One of those which I have newly completed is a website which talks about rewilding, an area of wildlife conservation, and is aimed primarily at a scientifically uneducated audience. This is an area of growing importance in conservation, and one which it seems will become quite prominent in the future. A few famous projects have already begun in Europe, Siberia and North America, as well as numerous smaller-scale projects across the world.

The website I've produced focuses on rewilding efforts in upland British ecosystems. It aims to give the general public a bit of a grounding on what rewilding is and why it's useful, in hopes that it will encourage more support for it.

If anybody who's interested could please have a look at it, read the material there, and fill out the feedback form, that would be just awesome.

https://www.uplandrewilding.co.uk/

Click to expand...

Bachelor science conservation?

David T said:

Bachelor science conservation?

Click to expand...

Biotechnology!

Kirran said:

Biotechnology!

Click to expand...

How does that with rewilding? it seems contradictory!!! Like Monsanto really concerned with the loss of biodiversity and as a side work they are into heritage seeds heritage and encouraging wild wheat !!!! Lol. Couldn't resist.

Thanks to everyone who's looked at the website and given feedback already!

David T said:

How does that with rewilding? it seems contradictory!!! Like Monsanto really concerned with the loss of biodiversity and as a side work they are into heritage seeds heritage and encouraging wild wheat !!!! Lol. Couldn't resist.

Click to expand...

Biotechnology is a very broad subject area.

In doing other parts of this report, I've been reading more into the reintroduction of the beaver in the UK. There's an awesome case to be made for it, I've become very supportive.

The beaver became extinct in the British Isles during the 16th Century, but a few reintroductions have been getting going. Mostly these have taken the form of trial reintroductions to ascertain the impact of beavers on the ecosystem, taking place in enclosed areas. That happened in Scotland, in Kent and in Devon, and there are plans for establishing populations in two places in Wales. However, once the trials are over it seems to be kind of read that the beavers will stay now, as precedent has been established in Scotland. After the Scottish Beaver Trial ended, the Scottish Government eventually decided that they could stay and be declared native. So that's cool. In Devon, some beavers were found living wild, we're not sure where they escaped from, but campaigning has meant they've stayed in the area to be used in a scientific trial. Lobbying continues for them to stay there once the trial's over.

Ecosystems are benefited hugely by the presence of beavers, which are of disproportionate impact on their environments. The reestablishment of beavers in the UK seems to be a very important aspect to the modern conservation movement in the UK.

The Wildlife Trusts have some great info on the topic.

Sunstone said:

Hate to be negative, but I don't much care for the moving font on the home page.

Click to expand...

That was my first impression, too.
The BBC does this a lot in their magazine section. It's obnoxious there, too.

Valjean said:

That was my first impression, too.
The BBC does this a lot in their magazine section. It's obnoxious there, too.

Click to expand...

I'll accept a comparison to the BBC, even if it is a negative one!

OK so over the next week I'll be collecting the feedback in and closing down the feedback section. If any stragglers (or people just seeing it now!) want to fill it in before then, that'd be cool