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Sharpham Wild for People


Sharpham Wild for People is a project we're delivering with partners Ambios Ltd at Lower Sharpham Farm and is supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund. It will:

  • make more space for wildlife and take action for natureNational Lottery Heritage Fund logo
  • assist in turning the Sharpham Estate organic
  • re-wild parts of our historic landscape
  • help more people engage with nature here

 

2 years into the project


 

 


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VIDEO: Sharpham rewilding

A poetic description of the rewilding work happening at Sharpham. Movie made by Ambios trainee George.

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Weeds on our rewilding fields?

Certain plants are dominating our rewilding fields, but this is all part of the process, says Ambios biologist Mike Cooke

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VIDEO: we've gone organic!

Learn more and see video of how the Sharpham Estate's farmland is now all organic

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VIDEO: Wild For People 2 years on

Learn more and see video of how nature is doing after the seconding year of our Wild For People.

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Grazers on our rewilding fields

Grazers are now on our rewilding fields, affecting the land as they would in the wild

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Belties graze our rewilding fields

VIDEO: Belted Galloways are introduced to our rewilding fields

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Woolly pigs return

VIDEO: Mangalitsa pigs return to turn over the ground and turbo-charge our rewilding plans

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Eden Project Festival of Discovery

We join The Festival of Discovery at The Eden Project on the talk-session Rewilding: Letting Nature Lead The Way

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Results of 2021's BioBlitz

260 species were identified and recorded on our BioBlitz this year!

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A Volunteer writes...

Jane Halliday reports on her first few sessions as a rewilding volunteer

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Wild for Podcasts!

Writer Alice Hughes created podcasts about Wild For People whilst training with us

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Phil Wilson

Meet Phil Wilson, the Conservation Ranger on the Sharpham Estate

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SPOTTER SHEETS: free downloads

Identify the wildlife at Sharpham with these downloadable/printable infosheets.

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Pig mess left behind

We've said goodbye to the woolly pigs that disrupted our soil for us...

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Woolly pigs arrive

Mangalitsa pigs arrive to turn over the ground and turbo-charge our rewilding plans

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VIDEO: Wild For People 1 year on

A 3-minute movie about how the first year of Wild For People has gone. SPOILER: amazing!

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Wild For People 1 year on

How nature has begun to return after just 1 year of our project

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VIDEO: Barn Owls at Sharpham

Barn Owls have been appearing over our rewilding fields - hunting the mammals & birds repopulating the area

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VIDEO: Listening for the Greater Horseshoe…

How to listen out for bats when you can't hear them with human ears... Movie made by Ambios trainees.

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VIDEO: A spooky bat hunt

Nocturnal, nerve-wracking bat-hunting at Sharpham. Movie made by Ambios trainees.

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Learn more

Discover more about our project Sharpham Wild For People - bringing people into the rewilding process on The Sharpham Estate

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Wild for People pictures

A growing gallery of images as we progress through our Wild for People project

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Autumn Cohort at Ambios

Autumn trainees arrive and share their first impressions in this blog post

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Spring/Summer 2020

What is the land and its wildlife like at the beginning of our project?

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VIDEO: Week to view...

A week in the life of an Ambios trainee - by trainee Amy Crawford

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VIDEO: An Ambios Trainee speaks...

Amy has been funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund - here she talks about her hopes for a career in the wild...

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Animals on camera!

Fantastic pictures taken by camera-traps on The Sharpham Estate - site of rewilding project Wild For People

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Project Partners

The Sharpham Trust is a charity connecting people with nature and themselves & operating the Sharpham Estate, near Totnes, Devon, UK

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Project Partners

Ambios Ltd run conservation training and survey and collect nature data, helping to measure the wildlife on the Estate.

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Sign up to our Nature & Wildlife e-newsletter

Subscribe for updates on this project and FIRST news on Sharpham wildlife events.

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If you would like to know more about the information on this page, please contact:

Name: Katie Tokus
Tel: 01803 732708
Email: [email protected]
Address: Sharpham House, Sharpham Estate, Ashprington, Totnes, Devon, TQ9 7UT