Rewilding

[paul6 (Paul)]

I was just curious, for anyone that ended up signing up, how’re you finding it?

[paul6 (Paul)]

Hey Tom,

Sorry, I read this and then forgot to reply…

Yeah, that’s completely fair enough and understandable around having other commitments.

Awesome to hear you’ve found inspiration in what we’re doing though! Have you been following the YouTube channel? Haha, any luck with educating your neighbours? Yeah, has taken a bit of a mental shift myself to become comfortable with bees, but getting there, and I do like seeing them in the garden. My opinion on wasps changed after a podcast I listened to as well, although they are harder to get used to…

Yeah, it’s been heartening to see how many people resonate with rewilding, and it does really seem to be gaining momentum.

Yeah, the price has come up a few times, and has traditionally been based on an average person’s footprint. Although as we transition more focus to rewilding, it might make sense to offer a £5 option as well. Although the normal trade-off of extra new people vs reduced revenue from people that might have signed up anyway, probably worth us experimenting with though, I’ll bring it up with the team again

We do offer memberships as gifts, which start at £30 for the year, so that’s a cheaper option, or an introductory way in.

[paul6 (Paul)]

@N26throwaway

Yep! Seen quite a few of your YouTube videos pop up in my recommendations! Great videos!

Thanks! I hope you’re subscribed

@N26throwaway

I may not have the prettiest gardens in my neighbourhood, but I’ve grown a new-found appreciation for the beauty in the impurities and imperfections of nature.

Yeah, there’s something about being in amongst life.

@N26throwaway

Perhaps it may worth exploring options exclusive to students by way of lower membership fees

Really interesting idea! I’ll raise it with the team.

@N26throwaway

Wasn’t aware of this! I think that’s awesome.

Yeah, we haven’t been that great at making them obvious, but doing a big push in the lead up to Christmas, and then hopefully it’ll be more obvious and seamless on the site going forwards e.g. it should be nicer to gift a membership to someone that already has a membership soon so that they get extra trees/ add more funds to rewilding projects.

[paul6 (Paul)]

Hey @N26throwaway,

Hope you’re well.

I just thought I’d mention, as you brought it up on here, we now have a reduced £5 tier in the membership

Also, if you haven’t seen them, I think you’d really like our recent few YouTube videos..

We now also have a Discord channel for members, but let me know if you haven’t signed up but would want to join, you seemed really interested in the area and we’re trying to get a community together around it generally.

[paul6 (Paul)]

Hey Tom!

I do get email notifications

Thanks for the kind words, it’s always really nice to hear, we genuinely really appreciate it and always get a push of motivation from them - some of the comments on our videos, and from member sign-ups are lovely!

Here is the Discord link.

Yeah, for me, as much as I’d love to see Wolves reintroduced (and think they’d have a positive impact) I think we’re a fair way from that, but I think Lynx are a good intermediate step and much more likely in the relatively near future. As with most things it comes down to human & animal interaction, and there’s a lot of work to do on that front in regard to Wolves. I could see a future where they are reintroduced though. We’re actually releasing a video about Wolves in Yellowstone park in the next few weeks which you might find interesting.

[CHARLIEOHLLRN (Charlie)]

Check out WildEast @ https://www.wildeast.co.uk/

Huge rewilding project in East Anglia