Episode 204 - Jonathan Mullard is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology and a Founder Member of the Chartered Institute of Ecology.

About this episode

Jonathan Mullard discusses his career in conservation and urban planning, including his work on urban woodland strategies and his interest in lost forests.

Jonathan Mullard is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology, a Founder Member of the Chartered Institute of Ecology andEnvironmental Management, and a Chartered Town and Country Planner. He had combined a passion for the naturalenvironment with a career in conservation and spatial planning. In the early 1980s, Jonathan worked alongside Max Nicholson, the pioneer ornithologist and environmentalist, on developing an urban woodland strategy for London. This involved setting up a project in Crystal Palace to save a fragment of the Great North Wood. Later, Jonathan cameacross the Capon Tree, one of the few remaining trees from the Jed Forest in the Scottish Borders. Along with his experience of growing up in Shropshire and researching the lost Forest of Morfe, it started an interest in lost forests and their remains. Jonathan is the author of Forgotten Forests: Twelve Thousand Years of British and Irish Woodlands and three books on Wales published in the Collins New Naturalist series: Gower , Brecon Beacons, and Pembrokeshire.

People in this episode

Host: Eva Monheim

Guest: Jonathan Mullard

Topics covered

• conservation
• urban planning
• ecology
• forestry
• environmental management

Keywords

• conservation
• urban woodland
• ecology
• lost forests
• environmental management
• British woodlands
• spatial planning

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Royal Society of Biology, Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management, Collins New Naturalist

Books & works: Forgotten Forests: Twelve Thousand Years of British and Irish Woodlands, Gower, Brecon Beacons, Pembrokeshire

Places: London, Crystal Palace, Jed Forest, Scottish Borders, Shropshire, Forest of Morfe

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