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Ben Eardley

Ben Eardley

Sep 15, 2026

6:53
So tell me and listeners then what Hunica is, where it is and what it's achieving.
7:03
Yes, it's the largest bit of contiguous land that the National Trust has got in the southwest.
7:08
It's about 12,500 acres and is a mix of protected landscapes.
7:15
So I've already mentioned Horn of Word, we've got the Upland Heath, we've got SSSI Saltmarsh.
7:22
So, you know, sort of over half of the landscape is protected landscape.
7:26
So it's, you know, we have to manage, we have a responsibility to look after that land and manage it to a certain condition.
7:35
And so we're quite hamstrung in that regard.

13 MINS LATER

20:51
I'm really interested to understand, probably from the Hanako example, but elsewhere as well from your experience, what evidence do you see that investing in, I'll use that word restoring, but restoring ecosystem function, can improve resilience to people and place and provide those benefits at catchment scale? What evidence are you seeing?

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