SUGi Talks 🌿 EP01: Urban Biodiversity: Can Pocket Forests save our cities?

Our cities are expanding. Green spaces are being gobbled up by concrete and asphalt. And what is the cost of this rapid urbanisation? Why do we need Nature in our cities? How can urban forests help biodiversity and community wellbeing? 

On this episode of SUGi Talks, we meet James Godfrey-Faussett. As SUGi’s lead Forest Maker, James manages our global urban Pocket Forest and afforestation efforts. In the UK alone he has planted 20 forests, including the UK and Europe's biggest Miyawaki forest in Barking and Dagenham. Focussing on cities and the chronic lack of biodiversity in our urban areas, we reimagine what healthy cities could look like. Alongside this, we speak about the healing power of Nature and the UK’s at-risk temperate rainforest biome. 

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With thanks to James Godfrey-Faussett.

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Project Links:

Southbank Centre — Natura Nostra Forest

https://www.sugiproject.com/projects/southbank-natura-nostra-forest

Koswik Law — A temperate rainforest in Cornwall

https://www.sugiproject.com/projects/koswik-law

Ancestral Forest — Wonderfruit's interactive festival forest

https://www.sugiproject.com/projects/ancestral-forest