Abstract: The Wildlife Trusts have been talking about ‘bigger, better and more joined-up’ conservation for many years, primed by their Living Landscape programme launched in 2006. The Trusts recognise the importance of moving outside nature reserve boundaries and looking at connectivity in the wider countryside. Policies are now catching up with this thinking and the Lawton Review paved the way for the larger-scale aspirations of the 2011 Natural Environment White Paper. This article reflects on work by the West Weald Landscape Partnership. The activity began in 2004, building on research into wildlife connectivity of this landscape from 1998. Download article as PDF:
ECOS 33 3-4-43 Landscape-scale conservation in the Weald