- RSPB’s Nature Prescriptions: connecting to nature to boost health and wellbeing https://www.rspb.org.uk/about-us/annual-report/nature-boosts-health-and-wellbeing
- Nature and mental health - Mind
- The World Health Organisation on our dependence on natural eco-systems and the benefits of biodiversity
Biodiversity
- Kingston Council on Biodiversity and its Biodiversity Action Plan
- Nature Towns & Cities - a coalition of organisations committed to bringing the benefits of nature and green space to everyone in the UK
- Championing nature | Grow Wild | Kew
- CPRE London on the London Tree Ring project
- National Park City London
- Buglife’s B-Lines
- Growing tips for green gardeners, TTK’s useful sources of ideas and advice on sustainable and wildlife-friendly gardening, food-growing, community gardening...
- Royal Horticultural Society
Planning issues/background/context
- Environment Bill 2021 which includes the Local Nature Recovery Strategy https://www.london.gov.uk/programmes-strategies/environment-and-climate-change/parks-green-spaces-and-biodiversity/local-nature-recovery-strategy?ac-188029=188026
- CPRE London guidance on Residential streets: 12 design elements
- Kingston Council’s Climate Emergency Declaration in June 2019, something all Council departments and contractors should take into account, ensuring that their actions and decisions do not worsen the climate and nature crises, but instead help to improve the local natural environment and mitigate climate change.
Places to visit - see examples of wilding and wild-life-friendly mowing at
- Kew Gardens
- Wakehurst
- Richmond Park
- Kingston riverside: Queen’s Promenade and North Kingston to Teddington
- Tolworth Court Farm
- Local Open Garden days
- Royal Horticultural Society at Wisley...