rewilding
Labour’s class war on moorland
This year has been a bad one for wildfires in Britain. In June, nearly 30,000 acres burned near Carrbridge in…
The word ‘artisanal’ has lost its meaning and dignity
The proud, skilled crafts it once described, such as thatching and coppicing, were part of life’s necessities – unlike the ‘handmade’ candles, chutneys and chocolates we now associate with it
Do we really want to bring back the wolf?
The apex predator is making a startling resurgence in Europe – many say to the enrichment of the landscape. But it’ll take a lot to convince the British of that
Life is a far richer, more complicated affair than we imagined
Exploring the new biology, Philip Hall explains how genes do not in fact determine our fate, and how cells can be reprogrammed to perform all kinds of new tasks
Down in the woods today
With rewilding projects multiplying worldwide, brown, black and grizzly bears are making a bold comeback. But how much bear can we bear?
Conflict in the Highlands
On the face of it, a book about a woman stalking one red deer might not sound that exciting. Just…
Real life
My phone buzzed and rang while I was doing the horses until I thought, fine, I’ll call the Defence Secretary…
Real life
‘Do you care about the woodland? Do you care about the wildlife?’ shouted the bearded Woodland Trust volunteer from his…
Boris has to choose between rewilding and food security
Does Boris Johnson have the faintest idea what he and his government are trying to achieve anymore? I ask because…
Real life
Trees glorious trees. People can’t get enough of them. They don’t want to take care of trees, they just want…
The problem with rewilding
The government has gone wild. Under new plans, just announced by Environment Secretary George Eustice, farmers and landowners in England could…
The root of the matter
Thanks to Covid, the days are gone — or at least suspended — when a TV travel programme meant a…
Nature in the round
As the start date of COP26 draws closer, and just when we are assailed by daily proof of climate chaos,…
Bright and beautiful
Edward St Aubyn’s ‘Patrick Melrose’ novels were loosely autobiographical renderings of the author’s harrowing, rarefied, drug-sozzled existence. Despite their subject…
Carrie Symonds and the cult of rewilding
Carrie Symonds is to join the Aspinall Foundation as its new head of communications, in a move very much on-brand…
Voice in the wilderness
Our worship of the ‘wild’ has gone too far
Grouse moors have destroyed Britain’s natural heritage – so we must rewild them
Britain’s hunting estates were once beautiful. Walking through the New Forest, we can all appreciate how the purchase of land…
How I rewilded the African bush
Laikipia My two Jersey bulls Halcyon and Hosanna were grazing happily on the lawn in front of the house…
