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What is the Whitelands Project CIC?
Whitelands co-director Fritha West talks us through the aims and workings of the community interest company, and what it means to really make biodiversity your business.
Seeking: Part Time Site Manager
PAID OPPORTUNITY – Make biodiversity your business!
Creative Spaces: Woodland Architecture with PSoA
Walk through Whitelands with a forester and you will spend the whole time talking about yield class and ages, species choice and timber prices. Their eyes will fix on the practicalities: stem diameter, extraction routes, accessibility. Walk through with an ecologist...
We are hiring!
PAID OPPORTUNITY – Make biodiversity your business! ** This post has now been filled. ** ** Following comments from our community on the rate of pay offered for this position, we would like to make it clear that the majority of our agreements are paid in...
Changing Biodiversity at Whitelands Wood
Whitelands codirector Fritha West tells us about her masters research, and how biodiversity analyses help tell the story of the Whitelands Project.
Conservation Careers: Cheryl Duerden
The amazing Cheryl Duerden from In A Land of Giants talks us through her journey into conservation, from documenting the rainforests and reefs of South East Asia to coppicing in Southern England. We hear about the importance of protecting ancient trees and encouraging diversity in all its forms!
Conservation Careers: Pete Etheridge
We chat to Pete Etheridge, a woodsman and ecologist who objects to the name of this series because “I don’t really have a career as such; I’m just making it up as I go along!”. Pete talks us through working with the land while learning all that you can about it, along with the inspiration for his business, Wessex Woodland Services.
Woodland Workers: Kate Mobbs-Morgan
For our last interview with Woodland Workers, we chat to the brilliant Kate Mobbs-Morgan. Kate tells us more about working in horse logging, and why this traditional approach to timber extraction is still so important in forestry today.
Woodland Workers: Andrew Heggie
Andrew shares some of the things he has learned over his three decades working in English forestry, how he has seen the industry change, and what he thinks may happen in the future.
Woodland Workers: Volker Schiller
Kicking off our series on Woodland Workers, we chat to Volker Schiller about his international forestry career. Volker has worked across the world, from Germany to Papa New Guinea, Namibia and Rwanda to Costa Rica and Mexico, over the the course of 4 decades. Now just 18 months from retirement, he shares some of his experience with us.