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

ROSS O'CEALLAIGH
About this episode

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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