My personal belief is that we should protect and restore the planets’ biodiversity for its own sake. However, I know that not all people think as I do. But when we consider that 55% of global GDP relies on what nature provides (even if GDP is a poor measure of progress) it becomes obvious that […]

“The new report highlights what many biodiversity experts have known for years in terms of biodiversity loss.” “I don’t believe we should set a ’safe’ limit for biodiversity – the figure should always be 100%, otherwise we will see death by a thousand cuts as Governments, society and individuals think it is OK to exploit […]

As we inch ever closer to The Environment Bill becoming law, the debate around Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) – the concept I introduced to the UK over a decade ago – is heating up. This week Channel 4 News covered an item on BNG that I watched with much interest. The piece, by Chief Correspondent […]

The IPCC report released this month(https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/downloads/report/IPCC_AR6_WGI_SPM.pdf) makes for terrifying reading. It can no longer sensibly be argued that humans are not influencing the world’s climate and at a rate which spells impending catastrophe unless we take immediate action. Large areas of the world are highly likely to become uninhabitable by humans which means that mass […]

Climate change and biodiversity loss are recognised as the two existential threats to our civilisation and the next few years will see a major transformation in how we use land so as to address these crises. The impacts on land use are liable to be even more significant in the uplands of Britain than in […]