🌿 Coppicing isn’t just woodland management - it’s a deep, reciprocal relationship between people & nature. Done right, it boosts biodiversity, supports rural heritage & sustains vital habitats. 🌳✨ Read more: ledbythewild.co.uk/new-and-blogs/ #Coppicing #Conservation #Biodiversity #LedByTheWild

💚We are proud to stand with this call to build sustainability and climate change into the National Curriculum. Our CEO Director @alibody1.bsky.social is one of the many signatures added to this list. @globalactionplan.bsky.social www.globalactionplan.org.uk/news/open-le...

🌍 How do we adapt to a world in crisis- truly, radically, and effectively? Our director @alibody1.bsky.social reviews Transformative Adaptation by @rupertread.bsky.social & Morgan Phillips, & @mandascott.bsky.social- a powerful call for deep, community-led change. ledbythewild.co.uk/new-and-blogs/

Maybe the best Valentine post ever 😆💚🐦

🌿 Our founding director and volunteer CEO is running 100 miles in February to raise funds for Led by the Wild! 🏃‍♂️💨 30 miles down, 70 to go! Support her & help us bring more communities into nature! Every donation helps us run vital conservation & education projects. 💚 #RunningForNature

🌿 Transforming Woodland Edges for Biodiversity! 🌿 We’ve been working on a soft woodland edge—using traditional techniques like dead hedging & selective grazing, we’re creating a thriving ecosystem. Read more: ledbythewild.co.uk/new-and-blogs/ #Conservation #Biodiversity #WoodlandRestoration

🌱🍎🍐🍒🌱🍎🍐🍒🌱🍎🍐🍒🌱🍎🍐🍒🌱🍎🍐🍒 What an epic job by our volunteers on Friday, planting 50 fruit trees for current and future generations to enjoy, whilst supporting habitat creation, conservation and biodiversity! Well done all!!! Thanks to the Ashford Community Orchards Fund for the trees! 💚💚💚💚

🌍✉️ Today, Led by the Wild CIC directors wrote to MPs backing the Climate & Nature Bill. 💚 Let’s align policies with science to protect biodiversity, empower communities & secure a sustainable future. 🌱💪 Join us & take action: www.zerohour.uk #CANBill #ActNow #ClimateAction @zero-hour.bsky.social

Each month throughout 2025, our director Ali Body will review a book relating to the environment and climate challenges we face…. she kicked off with the excellent 'The Lie of the Land' by @guyshrubsole.bsky.social ledbythewild.co.uk/2025/01/02/b...

💚Struggling with New Year resolutions?! Our volunteers and some of the children, wrote you a song to inspire you! Make this year, the year about loving nature!💚 💚How many will you commit too, and can you add some of your own? Sing this one with the kids, we promise the tune will be familiar!!💚

My 11-year-old was set a school challenge of producing/ finding/ taking a photo of 'a lesser known "superhero" in the environmental world'... whilst many others chose very worthy activists, he went out & took this photo, basing his whole project around the humble stag beetle. 🥰

We took some of lovely friends, volunteers and supporters at Led by the Wild out for Christmas dinner as a Thank you for another fantastic year - our work would not be possible without the people around this table (and several others who weren't able to join us!)! 💚

💚💚💚 Our Friday volunteer group have been making great progress on our dead hedge, incorporating laid trees, to create a barrier to allow conservation grazing on the edge of the woodland to nurture a natural transition between the wood & meadow, creating habitats & increasing biodiversity. 💚💚💚

Thanks to our volunteer @gbob73.bsky.social for this video of our beautiful woodland in Autumn bloom! 💚💚💚

So we're new here... want to out find more about our amazing organisation.... take a look at our website: ledbythewild.co.uk