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Chalk stream at Winnall Moors © Martin de Retuerto

How are the climate and nature emergencies linked?

As the world’s governments prepare to head to Glasgow for COP26, the global climate summit, to discuss global action to tackle the crises, we hope to look closer to home and highlight the links…

Stop Sign with green landscapes

What even is an Ecological Emergency?

In a world full of emergencies, do we have the energy for yet another one? Is it any different to the climate emergency and why should we care?

Footpath near Nately in Hampshire © Simon Burchell

This Land of Ours

In 1949, an imperfect mapping process removed thousands of footpaths, byways, and bridleways from public use. Hear from guest blogger Paul Howland about his mission to restore Hampshire's…

Water Vole

Wonderful water voles

Are you lucky enough to have seen a water vole? Sadly, these cute river-dwellers have undergone some of the worse declines of any British mammals. We look at some of the reasons why for…

Building Houses by Jonathan Oakley

Planning for a wilder future or planning to fail?

The planning system is broken. Not only is it failing to create the type of sustainable, healthy communities that we all need but new development continues to tear up valuable habitat and further…

Making nettle soup at Blashford

Taking the sting out of nettles

The stinging nettle is, thanks to its sting and vigorous growth, a much-maligned weed by both gardeners and visitors to the countryside, but it has not always been that way.

Hedgehog © Darin Smith

Wild about hedgehogs

Hedgehogs are disappearing from our countryside as fast as tigers are worldwide – a shocking situation for a species that was once common. However, with around fifteen million gardens in the UK,…

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