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New network to spearhead rapid rewilding across Britain A new project spearheading rapid and massively upscaled rewilding will be launched by Rewilding Britain later this year, to tackle the nature and climate emergencies, and help boost green recovery from the Covid-19 crisis. With nature faring worse in the UK than in most other countries, and…

As the chair of trustees of the World Land Trust I’m keen that as many people as possible support the work of this small but highly effective conservation charity. But also as chair, I get a closer look inside the organisation than most, and my admiration for the small UK team, our partners in organisations…

I’ve seen Swifts on an unbroken run of 84 days this year since 1 May (and on one early date of 19 April). All of those days, bar one last week when we were away in Scotland, were in the skies above our home. I am pretty sure that this has been a very good…

Ben Macdonald is a conservation writer and television producer.  The paperback of his book Rebirding is now available from £8.70 here. Twitter: @Rebirding1 Imagine that you want to upgrade your car.  You walk into a showroom.  There are three models available – all with various degrees of rust.  The showman explains at great length that…

I emailed the BTO Chief Exec Andy Clements a few days ago (see here) and he replied (see here) and now I’ve replied as follows; Dear Andy Thank you for a rapid response (and your reply will be posted on my blog soon). Since emailing you, but just before your reply arrived, I have been…