Category: environment and the natural world

The Naturalists Who Are Terrified of Nature

A radical challenge to British conservation and its bizarre priorities.

It’s time we confronted the National Farmers’ Union and the millionaires it works for.

The ignorance and philistinism of those who attack nature lovers knows no bounds.

Is it really possible? Yes, I think it is.

Why do farmers’ groups indulge in such ridiculous scaremongering about the restoration of the natural world?

A brilliant and beautiful animation.

Our Newsnight film about rewilding.

Robert MacFarlane interviews George Monbiot about rewilding.

A mass restoration of ecosystems offers us hope where there was little hope before.

Somehow almost all of us have missed the real story behind the disappearance of our wildlife.

Amazingly, the UK government has not defined the precautionary principle and appears to have no idea what it is.

How government science advisers misrepresent science.

If the “hardest-worked river in the world” can recover to this extent, almost anything is possible.

Devolving policy to “the market” doesn’t solve the problem of power. It makes it worse.

How the government betrayed its promises to protect our seas.

Ladbroke’s is offering odds on fish populations collapsing; the government is shortening them.

In both Russia and Canada a bloodbath of wolves is now taking place.

2012 was the worst year for the environment in living memory.

Pathological consumption has become so normalised that we scarcely notice it.

Biodiversity offsets threaten both the survival and the meaning of nature.