Reintroducing Oysters in Essex

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Talk on the Wild Side

Rob Smith

20 episodes

8 months ago

Learn about UK nature, conservation and rewilding in this immersive podcast hosted by award-winning BBC broadcaster and journalist, Rob Smith. Rob meets people and visits projects on the ground that are helping to tackle the nature and climate crisis by reintroducing species, rethinking farming, managing landscape-scale conservation projects, teaching and educating the public and even studying cultures of soil in a lab. There are so many ways people are making a difference - join Rob to find out more.

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Reintroducing Oysters in Essex

Talk on the Wild Side

1 hour 4 minutes 15 seconds

1 year ago

Reintroducing Oysters in Essex

Rob Smith heads to Brightlingsea Marina in Essex to talk oysters with Matt Uttley, Restoration Project Manager at Blue Marine Foundation. He discovers the difference between our native oyster and the Pacific oyster and why Matt is on a mission to boost the population numbers of our native oyster, the European flat oyster (Ostrea edulis) with a number of partners forming a group known as ENORI.

He also visits the Wilder Blean project in Canterbury for another safari, this tracking Exmoor pony footprints through the forest led by bison ranger Tom Gibbs. Find out the Blean forest is being managed naturally by bison and grazing animals.

Finally, Rob heads to RSPB's Dungeoness Nature Reserve to meet Reserve Warden, Craig Edwards. The site is set near an airport and nuclear power station, a bleak desert landscape and yet home to an incredible array of life! Learn more about the great conservation work happening on the site.

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