Uploaded July 2025 | Updated September 2026, 6 hours ago
Where nature returns…
On the final stop of his poetic journey across the South West, Prof. John Wedgwood Clarke travels to the beautiful Otter Estuary in Devon.
The film features the newly created wetland where tidal mud flats attract thousands of migratory of birds and salt marches host a variety of salt-tolerant plants such as sea purslane, sea spray, and sea aster, creating habitats for more wildlife.
John stops and takes it all in; his poetic reflections weave through the beauty of the wildlife haven and the flat expanse of the newly created wetland that additionally provides adaptation to climate change revealing how conservation efforts can bring hope for successful nature recovery in the future.
The film brings to an end John’s eco-poetic odyssey that has taken in some of the best wildlife and most beautiful places the South West has to offer.
The Wild Westcountry Odyssey film series is a collaboration between @naturalengland's Protected Site Strategies Research and Development Programme and the University of Exeter’s RENEW Biodiversity project, which brings together major conservation partners including the National Trust, RSPB, Environment Agency, Somerset Wildlife Trust and Clinton Devon Estates.
All images copyright Simon Willis Films
1.03-1.09 aerial Lower Otter Restoration Project copyright licensed
8.50 -8.53 Andrew Kirby copyright licenced
All music copyright Audio Networks as listed on music details
Poems copyright John Wedgwood Clarke
Where nature returns…
On the final stop of his poetic journey across the South West, Prof. John Wedgwood Clarke travels to the beautiful Otter Estuary in Devon.
The film features the newly created wetland where tidal mud flats attract thousands of migratory of birds and salt marches host a variety of salt-tolerant plants such as sea purslane, sea spray, and sea aster, creating habitats for more wildlife.
John stops and takes it all in; his poetic reflections weave through the beauty of the wildlife haven and the flat expanse of the newly created wetland that additionally provides adaptation to climate change revealing how conservation efforts can bring hope for successful nature recovery in the future.
The film brings to an end John’s eco-poetic odyssey that has taken in some of the best wildlife and most beautiful places the South West has to offer.
The Wild Westcountry Odyssey film series is a collaboration between @naturalengland's Protected Site Strategies Research and Development Programme and the University of Exeter’s RENEW Biodiversity project, which brings together major conservation partners including the National Trust, RSPB, Environment Agency, Somerset Wildlife Trust and Clinton Devon Estates.
All images copyright Simon Willis Films
1.03-1.09 aerial Lower Otter Restoration Project copyright licensed
8.50 -8.53 Andrew Kirby copyright licenced
All music copyright Audio Networks as listed on music details
Poems copyright John Wedgwood Clarke
