Organisations and individuals campaigning for landscape-scale restoration, public access and community participation in our Brighton Downs Estate. The high Downs around Brighton were once famous as a landscape of freedom, a place where you could walk without let or hindrance with only the music of skylarks above your head and the scent of thyme at your feet. The downs were covered in a singular mantle, a coat of many colours, a precious fabric of fenceless ancient down pasture bejewelled by tiny flowers and grasses - humming with the busy-ness of bees and butterflies, ants and crickets.
Thanks loads Tim. Good thought. It's got our chalk grassland mega-bird up-front...the Great Bustard !!...plus Stonechat...and most of the background sound-track is chalk grassland birds - Skylarks, Meadow Pips, Yellowhammer, Corn Buntings, lovely Rooks et al. We couldn't use Stone Curlews cos did that in our first film. Plus, birds get a big deal of attention already...but grasses, snails, mosses, even most bees and beetles get zilch...and it is that 'fairy fauna' and flora that chalk grassland is all about...the 'miniature' thing...
Interesting and informative, never realised BHCC were responsible for so much downland. The people of Brighton and Hove are fortunate to have such a beautiful landscape on their doorstep and should make every effort to protect it for future generations. Well done to those who made this video.
