This webinar will take a look at different ways of engaging volunteers in the management of proteceted areas in Estonia and the UK.
The speakers will be:
In 2012, Kadri Aller started as a volunteer in Estonian Fund for Nature's (ELF's) nature conservation projects and became a volunteer group leader the following year. Since 2018, she has been a full-time employee of ELF, writing and leading volunteering projects and organizing the volunteering activities at ELF.
Estonian Fund for Nature has been organizing nature conservation camps for volunteers since 2001. We focus on the restoration and maintenance of the habitats of endangered species and semi-natural landscapes. The camps take place both on private and government-owned lands and the locations are selected based on the advice of species' experts. The participants do not need specific knowledge about biology or nature protection prior to the camps, but they will definitely gain some during their volunteering experience.
Daniel Greenwood - Volunteer Development Officer for the South Downs National Park which is one of Britain’s largest National Parks and is 100 miles long, taking in chalk grassland, heathland, ancient woodland, wetlands and coast. We are the most visited and most highly populated National Park, but we are the youngest having been approved in 2011.
In my role I support our staff in their work with more than 200 volunteers to deliver conservation land management and public access aims in the South Downs. I also oversee youth volunteering and microvolunteering programmes, alongside supporting a network of vitally important volunteering organisations in the South Downs who deliver on the National Park’s purposes.
I will be talking about the South Downs National Park’s range of volunteering programmes that help people to directly support our aims and gain access to the South Downs
How to go from 1000 hrs per year of volunteer time to over 5000 hrs in a few years. Jim Hardcastle is the manager of the Mendip Hills AONB Unit and led on the transformation of volunteer effort across the Mendip Hills. Jim will explain what they key was to unlocking the dramatic increase and look at the hard and soft tactics used.
