tHE bRITISH uPLANDS:
A bright future?
ABOUT
As we look to the next few years, ambitious targets will see millions of trees planted across the uplands, with large funding projects well underway to reverse the degradation of our peatlands. Land use change, particularly around agricultural subsidies, the licensing of grouse moors and government regulations on deer management, will unquestionably change not only how our landscape looks, but the fabric of culture and tradition as well.
Is this restoration of what once was, or are we changing the landscape to something new? What does all this change mean for the land, wildlife and communities which rely on it?
The British Uplands podcast and video series, hosted by Byron Pace and Sarah Roberts, seeks to answer these questions with the help of an array of experts from across a variety of fields related to, and working within, the British uplands.
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About byron
Byron Pace is a film-maker, podcaster and environmental journalist, covering stories centred on how humans interact with nature in changing landscapes. He has created films and podcast series around the world, with a history creating documentaries in Africa.
Byron lives in Scotland, and sits as a Director in the Esk River and Fisheries Trust. He is in post-production for his first feature documentary, ‘Paid in Blood’ documenting an ambitious elephant relocation project from Namibia to the Democratic Republic of Congo, to be released later this year.
About sarah
Sarah Roberts is an eco-journalist with a background in wildlife conservation. She has worked all over the world covering stories from climate change technology in Iceland to human wildlife conflict with tigers in Sumatra. Sarah has a particularly soft spot for big predators, originally working as a shark biologist (which came in handy when Sarah and Byron conducted an investigative piece on shark angling). To help protect the places she loves, Sarah also runs environmental workshops and writes children’s books, including ‘Somebody Swallowed Stanley’, a story about plastic pollution read by Tom Hardy on CBeebies bedtime stories.
