As the world wakes up to the reality of climate change, a three-day festival will bring together experts, campaigners, bloggers and artists to look at the environment and how to live sustainably in a natural world.

The second Tonbridge Talks festival, which runs from Friday, October 4 to Sunday, October 6, is this year a festival of the environment and aims to inspire, challenge and entertain all ages with panel discussions, writing workshops, talks, performances, free kids' events, a film festival and photography exhibition.

Among the highlights will be the UK’s first touring wildlife film festival, the Wilderland Film Festival, which will be at the EM Forster Theatre in Tonbridge.

The brainchild of zoologist filmmakers Dan O’Neill and Isaac Rice, it features nine short films of animals from snow leopards to orangutans in Borneo.

Dan O’Neill and Isaac Rice said: “Wilderland is a platform for the new era of independent wildlife filmmakers. It will inspire everyone to think more about the natural world in our daily lives. Wilderland’s ethos is that anyone can be a conservationist, and everyone has a part to play in the future of our planet.”

Adventurer Steve Backshall will give a sold-out talk on the places he has explored around the world while Emma Ross (aka Mamalina) looks at sustainable parenting.

Horticulturalist Sarah Wilson will talk about how our gardens can help the environment and writer in residence, poet and blogger Anthony Wilson, will be running creative writing workshops, and closing the festival.

Find out more at tonbridgetalks.com and emftheatre.com

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