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Our Vision

Working with local Councillors, wildlife groups and landowners, with the help of Sir John Lawton, author of the 2010 government review of England’s protected areas “Making Space for Nature”, we have been developing a project to reconnect the Ancient Woodland from Kings Wood and Perry Wood, North-Eastward to the Blean Woodland Nature Reserve and East Blean at Hoath, to connect essential wildlife habitats and re-create a landscape-scale Forest in East Kent.

This exciting project includes a “Green” land bridge across the A2, creating “stepping stones” to connect habitats and developing marginal habitats to support the biodiversity of the forest.

As part of this scheme, we will be proposing an expansion of the Kent Downs National Landscape, (previously the Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty) into the area, to create a substantial forest that can support threatened species and, possibly, allow the reintroduction of larger, lost species such as Bison and Lynx.