Posts by PapayaStudio
What BNG means to Belmont?
Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) are words that you may have or will hear more regularly this year. BNG is a mechanism aiming to preserve and restore our biodiversity through the planning system. It will be enshrined in law in February 2024 with some local planning authorities having already voluntarily adopting it. So, if you’re building…
Read MoreA year of our nature-education programme
As the snowdrops and bluebells start to poke their way out into the New Year, it gives us time to pause and reflect on how we have grown over the last 18 months since we first welcomed schools to our education programme in our rewilding project. Since the beginning, our mission has always been to…
Read MoreA story of rewilding at Belmont
Looking South Westerly towards the Bristol Channel across the road from Belmont, is our rewilding project, Watercress Farm. Now in its second year, we are thrilled to see nature bouncing back. Over the last year, we have been seeing naturally regenerated trees popping up, saplings born of seeds that have capitalised on the patches…
Read MoreA nature-focused mindset to land management
NATUrE FOCUSED MINDSET TO LAND MANAGEMENT The hope and opportunity offered by allowing nature into our managed landscapes is critically important as we find ways to address the threats of changing climate, biodiversity loss, and our disconnection from nature. Searching for opportunities large and small to ‘put nature back’ is an increasing focus for us…
Read MoreThere’s no such thing as a barn owl…
The vast majority of our native species are adapted to a landscape now almost unseen. Making the most of circumstances and habitats far from the sort of environments they evolved to inhabit, with many populations gradually dying out as a result. Before the wholesale impacts of human intervention, our landscape was a dynamic patchwork quilt.…
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