Nottingham's Nature Post-Pandemic

Part of the Being Human Festival

Panel discussion and Q&A, chaired by Dr Rob Lambert, with representatives from Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust, campaigners, youth and community groups.

The event will focus on how the coronavirus pandemic has underlined the need for Nature in our lives like never before. We have sought access to it, found spiritual renewal in dark times in it and voraciously read nature-writing as intellectual renewal. We have contemplated new directions for nature conservation in the county including the reintroductions of species such as beavers as we urgently seek to deliver habitat renewal at a landscape scale. Yet, at the same time, Nature remains under constant threat and during the pandemic instances of destruction, vandalism, fires and litter have plagued local nature reserves or green spaces. In an age of coronavirus, some would say we’ve risked loving Nature to death. So, post-pandemic Nature must all be about renewal and rebirth, both for people and place and ensuring more people take action to protect it.