TR EP09 - Pete Leeson, Woodland Trust

The passions that drive Pete Leeson, Woodland Creation Advisor with the Woodland Trust, are his love of nature, the great outdoors, and music. Having experienced a varied career Pete is now settled in a job that he loves and which is helping protect and improve the habitats and health of our countryside, working in partership with many organisations to create woodlands across the Northwest. In this podcast he explains how his mother influenced him from an early age to think about how plants and animals interact, and how they can be managed in a way that is in every sense both productive and sustainable. He also shares his vision for the future - where the value of trees and woodlands is better understood, where harnessing the passion and power of the next generations will provide the energy to get things done, and where connecting habitats of every variety, with the support of landowners and communities, will be key to ensure joined up solutions to our environmental challenges can be supported to achieve lasting positive change.

The Talking Rivers Podcast explores and celebrates the social, cultural and natural history of the River Ribble and its tributaries. Throughout the series we will talk to a range of people who live, work and visit our fantastic rivers and hear about what makes the Ribble Catchment so special to so many people.

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