In 2024, Natural England commissioned Radical Ecology to develop a report on post-plantation ecology, looking at our local woodland - Dartington’s North Wood - as the case study for our research.
In the report, its author Iman Datoo reflects on the legacies of a century past in Dartington’s North Wood and puts forward possibilities for the century ahead through the proposal of a 100 Year Care Plan. While its focus is hyper-local, the context that it reflects speaks to situations across the planet where human behaviour has shaped and reshaped landscapes over generations and where nature is all too often imagined as located behind us rather than as the thread that runs through the economic, social and ecological planes of our existence. In contrast, the report reflects this underlying unity and envisions culture as the crucial vehicle that can connect us to one another and to the abundance of our environment.
