Post-Pandemic Nottingham Nature

Join us for a lively panel discussion and Q&A, chaired by Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust Vice-President - Dr Rob Lambert, with representatives from Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust, environmental campaigners as well as youth and community representatives.

The event will focus on how the coronavirus pandemic has underlined the need for Nature in our lives like never before. We have sought access to it, found spiritual renewal in dark times in it and voraciously read nature-writing as intellectual renewal. We have progressed a new directions for nature conservation in the county including the reintroductions of species such as beavers as we urgently seek to deliver habitat renewal at a landscape scale. Yet, at the same time, Nature remains under constant threat and during the pandemic instances of destruction, vandalism, fires and litter have plagued local nature reserves and green spaces. In an age of coronavirus, some would say we’ve risked loving Nature to death. So, post-pandemic Nature must all be about renewal and rebirth, both for people and place and ensuring more people take action to protect it.

Panelists will include wildlife campaigner Charlotte Jones and Michael Walker, Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust’s Nature Recovery Manager.

This event is part of the Being Human festival, the UK’s only national festival of the humanities, taking place 11–20 November 2021. Led by the School of Advanced Study, University of London, in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the British Academy. For further information please see beinghumanfestival.org.