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Owned by everyone?
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Chalk streams are among the world’s most remarkable ecosystems. They’re rare as rhinos, but much more English: 85% of the world’s supply are distributed between Dorset and East Yorkshire. Their mineral rich water is famously clear, and supports remarkable flora and fauna, including England’s oldest animal. But they are in trouble, thanks to decades of mismanagement, over-abstraction and pollution. In March 2023, a conference in Cambridge, inspired by poet and environmentalist Ted Hughes, explored the culture and crisis of these beautiful rivers, and resolved to build the most inclusive possible coalition of care in their defence and protection. We recorded its eight sessions, each ninety minutes in length, with most consisting of three twenty-minute presentations and half an hour of questions. (Session 4 included four fifteen-minute case studies from around England.) These built towards an open discussion chaired by Tony Juniper of Natural England looking forward
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Owned by everyone?
This eighth and final podcast is devoted to an open discussion about the future of chalk streams. It's chaired by Tony Juniper, the Chair of Natural England, and introduced by author, natural historian and activist Amy-Jane Beer, and by Stephen Tomkins, outgoing Chair of the Cam Valley Forum and...
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Solutions
Broadcaster and environmental journalist Joe Crowley chairs this seventh and penultimate episode of Owned by everyone? Its theme is possible solutions to the problems afflicting chalk streams. First up is Pippa Heylings, environmental sustainability consultant, Liberal Democrat District…
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Opportunities
Shaun Leonard, Director of the Wild Trout Trust, introduces our speakers in this sixth episode of 'Owned by Everyone?' Literary critic Terry Gifford considers the movements of river and self in contemporary poet Jeremy Hooker's 'Itchen Water' sequence. Conservationist turned leading environmental...
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Barriers
Our fifth episode, chaired by Dame Fiona Reynolds, whom John Fanshawe introduces, is on the theme of barriers. Environmental historian Hadrian Cook disputes that characterisation of water meadows, arguing that they're more heroes than villains; Mike Foley, citizen scientist from the Cam Valley...
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Case Studies
Our fourth episode, from the session which closed the first day of our conference, is devoted to four case studies, reports from chalk streams across their geographical range in England by those who know them better than anyone. Ash Smith, of Windrush Against Sewage Pollution, introduces Jon…
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Nature and Culture
Episode Three, Nature and Culture, is introduced by Ali Morse, Water Policy Manager at the Wildlife Trusts. Ali welcomes author and biologist Amy-Jane Beer, who talks about her own experience of nature and connection through chalk streams; Dylan Everett, countryside manager and river keeper on…
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Nature Live
What exactly goes on under the surface of our chalk streams, and why is it important to know as precisely as possible? Our second episode, Nature Live, introduced by WildFish Conservation's CEO Nick Measham, reveals the behaviour and sheer physical beauty of the fish that swim in our chalk…
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The crisis facing our chalk streams
In this first episode, 'The crisis facing chalk streams', John Fanshawe introduces us to the work and partnerships that make the Cambridge Conservation Initiative exactly the right place for our conference. Mark Wormald briefly establishes wo of those assembled does what in, on or beside chalk...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Chalk streams are among the world’s most remarkable ecosystems. They’re rare as rhinos, but much more English: 85% of the world’s supply are distributed between Dorset and East Yorkshire. Their mineral rich water is famously clear, and supports remarkable flora and fauna, including England’s oldest animal. But they are in trouble, thanks to decades of mismanagement, over-abstraction and pollution.
In March 2023, a conference in Cambridge, inspired by poet and environmentalist Ted Hughes, explored the culture and crisis of these beautiful rivers, and resolved to build the most inclusive possible coalition of care in their defence and protection.
We recorded its eight sessions, each ninety minutes in length, with most consisting of three twenty-minute presentations and half an hour of questions. (Session 4 included four fifteen-minute case studies from around England.) These built towards an open discussion chaired by Tony Juniper of Natural England looking forward
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Chalk streams are among the world’s most remarkable ecosystems. They’re rare as rhinos, but much more English: 85% of the world’s supply are distributed between Dorset and East Yorkshire. Their mineral rich water is famously clear, and supports remarkable flora and fauna, including England’s oldest...
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