Globally and nationally wildlife is in steep decline. We appear to be reaching critical tipping points around the loss of biodiversity as well as around climate change, both being interlinked. Human society cannot prosper without wildlife and healthy ecosystems.
Kent’s wildlife needs to be restored to much higher levels. We can no longer allow common things to become rare. We can only do this by restoring large-scale habitat from degraded land. Doing this will contribute to solving global problems. But we won’t be able to do this unless we publicly aspire to a higher level of impact and show that we can deliver this.
The Wilder Blean Project is an exciting project which looks to manage large parts of the West Blean and Thornden Woods at a landscape scale using principles of wilding management. These two roles will join two other Bison and Conservation Grazing Rangers who form an integral part of the wider project team, with the specific purpose of looking after and managing a small herd of bison within approximately 200ha of Blean Woods and additionally to manage the rest of the conservation gazing animal’s including Exmoor ponies, Longhorn cattle and Iron age pigs . The bison must be kept in as wild a state as possible in order for them to display their natural behaviour and have the greatest positive impact on the site, therefore careful and sympathetic management will be essential to the fulfilment of this role.
Training will be provided, which will involve spending time with ARK Naturr Ontwikkeling at several of their sites in the Netherlands. This will provide the necessary specific skills and understanding to manage free ranging bison in the Wilder Blean Project which are currently unavailable in the UK.
This role will require a DBS check.
All candidates must have the Right to Work in the UK.