For this year’s Annual Forum, Dorset Local Nature Partnership is delighted to be hosting a special Local Nature Recovery event for Dorset.
Dorset is buzzing with amazing nature recovery activities already taking place, come and join us at the Annual Forum to hear about some of this fantastic work and different approaches being taken across various sectors in Dorset, from farms to urban parks, and river catchments to landscape scale changes.
But we need to do more, so you will also hear all about the new Local Nature Recovery Strategy being created in Dorset, and there will be an opportunity, through a range of interactive workshop sessions, to help shape the next steps in the preparation process. Building on previous workshops hosted by Dorset Local Nature Partnership, your ideas will help ensure the strategy is useful to people working together to recover nature across the county.
This is a free, full day event, with plenty of networking opportunities, information stalls and a hot buffet lunch.
Programme (presentations now available)
9.00 Registration
9.30 Welcome – Luke Rake, Chair Dorset LNP
9.35 Interactive session
Session 1 – Landscape Recovery
9.45 Nature Recovery: Importance, Opportunities and Limits – Dr Phil Sterling, Independent Chair, Dorset National Landscape Partnership
9.55 Workshop session
10.05 Wareham Arc: Delivering Landscape Scale Change – Lizzie Hibbard, RSPB
10.20 Upper Axe Landscape Recovery Project – Alisdair Moffet, Upper Axe CIC
10.35 Win’ning the Allen – Nick Shaftesbury, River Allen CIC
10.50 Brit Catchment Recovery Project – Sam Rose, West Dorset Wildling
11.05 Session 1: Q&A session
11.15 Refreshment break
Session 2 – Dorset Local Nature Recovery Strategy
11.35 Introduction to Dorset Local Nature Recovery Strategy – Amy Smith, Dorset Council
11.45 Workshop sesion
12.30 Lunch
Session 3 – Space for Nature
13.30 Interactive Session
13.35 Urban Nature: Connecting It All Together (final slide video) – Martin Whitchurch, BCP Council & John Hanson, Parks Foundation
13.50 FLAVOURS: A Taste of Dorset’s Countryside – Caroline Richards, Dorset National Landscape & Anastasia Pikalova, Dorset Race Equality Council
14.05 Wild Woodbury: Making Space for Nature – Seb Elwood, Dorset Wildlife Trust
14.15 Investing in Healthy Soils: Farming in Protected Landscapes – Video from Tom Gregory, Marsh Farm
14.25 A Million-Pound Project to Restore Dorset’s Peatlands – Grace Hervé, Dorset Wildlife Trust
14.40 Session 2: Q&A
Session 4 – Measuring Recovery
15.10 Can Citizen Science and AI Help Record Wildlife on Farms? Lesson from a Dorset farm – Video from Sophie Alexander, Hemsworth Farm
15.20 Farmer Cluster: Setting the Baseline for Nature Recovery – Emily Newton, Dorset Wildlife Trust
15.30 The Great Big Dorset Hedge Project – John Calder, Dorset Climate Action Network (plus additional film)
15.40 Session 4: Q&A
15.50 Workshop Session
16.20 Round Up
16.30 Close
For more information please email info@dorsetlnp.org.uk