The Sustainable Living Podcast

Episode 83 - Community Nature Reserve Dr. Adrian Cooper is on a mission to spread a new idea which could help to save local wildlife: the community nature reserve. The term "community nature reserve" may bring up visions of national parks and there are certain similarities. Both community nature reserves and national parks are created to help support and protect wildlife. Both are also supported and frequented by nature lovers. But unlike national or government-run nature conservation projects, community nature reserves are actually created by neighbors planting wildlife-friendly plants in their own backyards. Alarmed and Frustrated Like so many of us, Adrian, a wildlife friend, scholar and speaker on the topic, became alarmed by the rapid decline in wildlife populations he was seeing. When he saw that politicians were ignoring the issue, he decided to take matters into his own hands. He connected with like-minded neighbors, and together they hatched a plan. Each neighbor would plant wildlife-friendly plants