Conservation

Stories

5th July 2022

Spending lockdown alone in the New Forest canopy

In spring and summer 2020, as lockdown stifled human life, wildlife filmmaker James Aldred found himself alone in a New Forest hide filming nesting goshawks. Goshawk Summer recounts those strange, wondrous weeks watching the natural world unfurl into the space vacated human activity. We asked him about that time, at once teeming and devoid of life.

Authors

Guy Shrubsole

Guy Shrubsole

Guy Shrubsole is a writer and environmental campaigner. He has worked for Rewilding Britain, Friends of the Earth, the UK government’s Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, and New Zealand’s Ministry of Agriculture. He has written widely for publications including the Guardian and New Statesman. His first book, Who Owns England?, was an instant Sunday Times bestseller. His next book, The Lost Rainforests of Britain, is published on October 27th by William Collins.

James Aldred

James Aldred

James Aldred is the celebrated author of The Man Who Climbs Trees and an Emmy Award winning documentary wildlife camera man and filmmaker. He works with the likes of the BBC and National Geographic and has collaborated with Sir David Attenborough on numerous projects including Life of Mammals, Planet Earth and Our Planet. He specialises in forest filming, especially at height within forest canopy, where he uses ropes and canopy platforms to film orangutans, chimps and birds of prey.

Dan Yates

Dan Yates

Dan has spent the last 30 years obsessed with whitewater kayaking and the wild rivers and landscapes it takes him to. The last ten years has seen him increasingly focus environmentalism and on the protection of these special places.

Events

Durdle Door Wild Swim

2nd September 2017
Durdle Door, England