Wildlife bridge Woeste Hoeve in the province of Gelderland
Wild LIVE: Nature interrupted - How can we reconnect wildlife in a fragmented world?
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The UK's wildlife is constantly on the move, searching for food, finding mates, and responding to a rapidly shifting climate. When habitats become isolated and wildlife can't move freely, they become fragile and far less able to withstand extreme events such as heatwaves or floods. When nature is connected, it's more resilient, and more likely to result in a healthy, functioning environment for us all.
But roads, railways, housing and other infrastructure have carved the country into disconnected islands of habitat, making it increasingly difficult for species to travel safely and adapt. In this panel discussion, we’ll explore the growing challenge of habitat fragmentation and ask: How can we reconnect nature at scale? Our experts will share innovative solutions already transforming the UK’s landscape - from green bridges and wildlife tunnels to nature highways, restored corridors, and community‑led reconnection projects.
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Craig Bennett at the Restore Nature Now march © Eleanor Church
Craig Bennett OBE, Chief Executive of The Wildlife Trusts
Craig is Chief Executive of The Wildlife Trusts, Honorary Professor of Sustainability and Innovation at Alliance Manchester Business School, an Associate Fellow of Homerton College (Cambridge), and a Fellow of The Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership. He is also a Commissioner on the UK Government’s Clean Power 2030 Advisory Commission. He was awarded an OBE for services to the environment in the King’s New Year 2026 Honour’s List.
He has been described as “one of the country’s top environmental campaigners”, by The Guardian as “the very model of a modern eco-general” and has also been listed in The Sunday Times Green Power List of the UK’s top 20 environmentalists. Craig was formerly CEO of Friends of the Earth where he led the organisation to numerous campaign victories including on bees, fracking and against airport expansion.
Earlier in his career, Craig was Deputy Director at The University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL), and Director of The Prince of Wales’s Corporate Leaders Group on Climate Change (from 2007 to 2010).
Craig has twenty-five years experience of designing and contributing to Executive Education and Leadership programmes at numerous universities and business schools around the world, and of providing advice and constructive challenge direct to CEOs and company boards. He is currently Chair of the Independent Challenge Group for Anglian Water.
He is also a Policy Fellow of The Centre for Science and Policy and a member of the Churchill Sustainability Practitioners Network at The University of Cambridge, a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a Fellow of the Hawkwood Centre for Future Thinking, a judge on The Wainwright Book Prize, a Trustee of the think-tank Green Alliance, and an Honorary Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM). He regularly appears in the print and broadcast media
He has a BSc (Hons) in Human and Physical Geography from The University of Reading and an MSc in Biodiversity Conservation from University College London, and Honorary Doctoral degrees from University College of Estate Management (UCEM), and Anglian Ruskin University (ARU).
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