This eighth and final podcast is devoted to an open discussion about the future of chalk streams. It's chaired by Tony Juniper, the Chair of Natural England, and introduced by author, natural historian and activist Amy-Jane Beer, and by Stephen Tomkins, outgoing Chair of the Cam Valley Forum and Emeritus Fellow of Homerton College. After eighty minutes of contributions and ideas from speakers whose voices you may recognise from earlier episodes and members of our invited audience, Mark Wormald wraps up and looks forward. To keep up to date with the plans Mark describes, to read a statement issued in early April 2023 on behalf of the conference delegates, and to contribute your own ideas and resources, please visit https://ownedbyeveryone.org.Timings:Tony Juniper concludes the discussion at 1.16.38.Mark wraps up from 1.16.53.Thank you for listening. If you've found any of these episodes enjoyable or provoking, please share. They are, as the health of our chalk streams should be, owned by everyone. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Solutions
Broadcaster and environmental journalist Joe Crowley chairs this seventh and penultimate episode of Owned by everyone? Its theme is possible solutions to the problems afflicting chalk streams. First up is Pippa Heylings, environmental sustainability consultant, Liberal Democrat District Councillor and parliamentary candidate for the South Cambridgeshire constituency for the next General Election, whose title, freighted with a question mark, is 'Developments on the Cam?' Pippa speaks without notes. Leading writer, fisherman, campaigner, convenor and chalk stream restorationist Charles Rangeley-Wilson speaks with qualified confidence about a national catchment-based strategy for a better future for our chalk streams -- in due course. Finally, Stewart Clarke, the National Trust's National Specialist for Freshwater and Catchments, tells us about the best international contemporary practice in managing landscapes and riverscapes. Remember that you can download Charles and Stewart's presentations via the episode link.Timings: Joe introduces the session; Pippa speaks from 1.11Joe introduces Charles from 18.52Joe introduces Stewart from 46.58Q & A from 1.08.56 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Opportunities
Shaun Leonard, Director of the Wild Trout Trust, introduces our speakers in this sixth episode of 'Owned by Everyone?' Literary critic Terry Gifford considers the movements of river and self in contemporary poet Jeremy Hooker's 'Itchen Water' sequence. Conservationist turned leading environmental lawyer Carol Day makes her discussion of ongoing cases involving water, the law and environmental democracy anything but dry. Riverkeeper for the Piscatorial Society movingly describes his fishing life and his personal vision for the future of fishing. Don't forget you can scroll or download all three speakers' slides via the episode link or at https://ownedbyeveryone.orgTimings:Terry from 00.17Carol from 19.41Stuart from 37.31Q & A from 56.51 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Barriers
Our fifth episode, chaired by Dame Fiona Reynolds, whom John Fanshawe introduces, is on the theme of barriers. Environmental historian Hadrian Cook disputes that characterisation of water meadows, arguing that they're more heroes than villains; Mike Foley, citizen scientist from the Cam Valley Forum provides the current, or rather hopelessly abstracted, problems with water quality in his local chalk streams; Trevor Bishop of Water Resources South East describes the pressures on and planning of water resources at a regional and national level.TimingsJohn and Fiona to 4.15Hadrian from 4.15Mike from 24.05Trevor from 40.38Q and A from 1.00.14 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Case Studies
Our fourth episode, from the session which closed the first day of our conference, is devoted to four case studies, reports from chalk streams across their geographical range in England by those who know them better than anyone. Ash Smith, of Windrush Against Sewage Pollution, introduces Jon Traill on the chalk landscapes of East Yorkshire; Kate Heppell on overcoming challenges to the Chess; Rob Mungovan, who numbers drought, deer and dogs among the stresses on Cambridgeshire's chalk streams, but who also provides hope and revelation with his final video, available along with all the presentations for you to scroll through or download here; and David Holroyd, who describes recent action on the most accessible of our iconic chalk streams, the Wiltshire Avon, and his experience of working alongside water companies and the Environment Agency.TimingsAsh Smith introduces Jon Traill from 0.01 Kate Heppell speaks from 17.03Rob Mungovan speaks from 34.15David Holroyd speaks from 52.42Ash Smith invites questions from 1.05.32 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Chalk streams are among the world’s most remarkable ecosystems. They’re rare as rhinos, but much more English: 85% of the world’s supply are distributed between Dorset and East Yorkshire. Their mineral rich water is famously clear, and supports remarkable flora and fauna, including England’s oldest animal. But they are in trouble, thanks to decades of mismanagement, over-abstraction and pollution.In March 2023, a conference in Cambridge, inspired by poet and environmentalist Ted Hughes, explored the culture and crisis of these beautiful rivers, and resolved to build the most inclusive possible coalition of care in their defence and protection.We recorded its eight sessions, each ninety minutes in length, with most consisting of three twenty-minute presentations and half an hour of questions. (Session 4 included four fifteen-minute case studies from around England.) These built towards an open discussion chaired by Tony Juniper of Natural England looking forward to the urgent changes needed to reverse the abuse inflicted on our chalk streams since the Second World War, to address the failures of water companies, regulators and Government in not enforcing existing statutory regulations and in seeking to remove those that remain. These discussions all mix wonder at natural beauty, horror at what we’ve done to it and hope at how to fix the mess we’ve all been complicit in.Subscribe to access all eight ninety-minute podcasts, and download the conference programme, and the presentations’ slides as you listen along at our partner website https://ownedbyeveryone.org, where you can also read the statement issued on behalf of the attendees at the end of the conference, share stories from your own community action group, learn how you can make a difference yourself, and access a growing range of resources from our ever growing community of those who believe that a culture is no better than its rivers. You can also comment or get in touch with your ideas. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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