Fwd: Fwd: Creating and Managing Meadows and Scrub 20 & 21 May 2026
Edward Mayer
Maybe of interest? Best wishes, Edward
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| Subject: | Fwd: Creating and Managing Meadows and Scrub 20 & 21 May 2026 |
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| Date: | Thu, 5 Mar 2026 10:09:48 +0000 |
| From: | Christine Handley <syec...@gmail.com> |
We are excited to be able to share further details of speakers and content for our May conference - Creating and Managing Meadows and Scrub 20 & 21 May 2026.
Speakers include:
Richard Scott Urban Ecologist and Director of the National Wildflower Centre at the Eden Project
Paul Ashton Edge Hill University - Meadow Community Composition & Direction of Change: 40 yrs on from Creation
Dan Carne Wood Meadows project
Barry Wright Hedgerows, Meadows and Biodiversity
Peter Leeson/ Mike Douglas Breeding Birds in Upland Scrub Creation
Louise Smith Cutting Through Challenges: Grassland Management in the Medlock Valley
Jen Davies National Nature Education Park – Empowering the next generation of scientists: boosting biodiversity across the education estate with the National Education Nature Park
Patrick Harrison – Gleadless Valley Meadows’ management & potential: strategic view
Andy Jennings-Giles Plantlife
Ian Rotherham – Welcome to the Urban Wild!
Day 1: 20th May: Meadows and Scrub in the landscape. Dynamic mosaics and ecotones or edges – explore approaches to unleashing the power of nature with a focus on PROCESS rather than product or output to generate biodiversity. This approach resonates with much rewilding to encourage wilder futures, and with 'shadows, ghosts & natural regeneration' as cost-effective ways to transform the eco-scape.
Day 2: 21st May: Urban issues and opportunities. With human communities now mostly urban we need to focus on ways to bring nature to the city, and to reconnect urban dwellers with natural processes. Expensive but boring, mown grass can easily generate cost-effective native wildflower meadows. Wilder parks, greener roadsides, vibrant woodlands, rewilding rivers and the vital 'edge' between meadow and woodland, we will present and share examples of good practice and innovation to demonstrate how the urban wilding revolution can and is happening.
Optional afternoon field visit for delegates booked on the seminar on Tuesday 19th May to the former medieval Norton Deer Park where regenerating meadows and scrub have been transformational for biodiversity and local people. Details will be sent to those who book.
Please get in touch with Ian Ianroth...@gmail.com or Christine christin...@outlook.com if you would like to present or bring a display and promote your organisation at the event.
Further details, updates and booking here
More information is available from our YouTube channel here – we will add updates so keep a lookout for those and in our social media.
Please share with your colleagues and networks. We look forward to seeing you!
Kind regards
Jane Leathley
On behalf of the SYBRG conference team