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Mar 2025
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#108: (WILD) Rewilding for Urban Flood R...

ROSS O'CEALLAIGH
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My guests on this episode are Ian Russell and Jamie Kukadia from the watercourses team at London Borough of Enfield. We discuss:

  • 'Rewilding Enfield' - rewilding urban streets, parks and rivers.
  • Nature-based flood resilience and sustainable drainage versus traditional engineering.
  • Reintroducing beavers to London.
  • The benefits of conservation livestock grazing in parks and green belt.
  • Advice for others who want to take an urban rewilding approach.

Learn more about the Enfield beavers

Learn more about the conservation grazing project


This is part 3 of the Urban Rewilding series.

Listen to part 1 here:
#102: (WILD) Rewilding Urban Parks with Lost Species - Sean McCormack, Ealing Beaver Project

Listen to part 2 here:
#105: (WILD) Wilding the City, with Sophie Thompson (LDA Design)

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