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Major landowners risk derailing Government’s ‘30 by 30’ target
74% of the public think major landowners should protect nature, but new analysis exposes gaps in progress towards crucial nature target as leaders gather at UN Biodiversity Conference England’s biggest landowners must do more to protect nature on their land according to the public, as a new assessment reveals stark differences in how landowners including…
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Rewild The National Estate for Nature – Answering Your Questions!
Here we’ve given you the answers to the questions most commonly asked about our Rewild the National Estate for Nature campaign. Can’t find an answer here to the question that you’re pondering? Please get in touch with our team: nationalestate@wildcard.land. What is the National Estate for Nature? In a nutshell: A group containing many of…
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Wild Card Go Wild At The Grange Project
Doing most of our work together from behind a screen, it’s important to the Wild Card team that we get out into the wild together from time to time. This is always a great learning opportunity, but it also acts as both inspiration and motivation. Whenever we have visited a rewilding site, we have been…
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Rewilding Species of the Month: The Atlantic Salmon
The story of the Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar) is one worthy of Tolkien. It is a tale of there and back again, taking the salmon from fresh water high upstream to thousands of miles out into the Atlantic Ocean. Then, with a swish of the tail, it turns back home to the very same river…
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Rewilding Species of the Month: The Eurasian Beaver
Beavers are something of a poster child when it comes to rewilding. They are an incredible example of a keystone species, a species which shapes and holds together its natural environment to allow other species to flourish. Just as the keystone of a bridge creates the bridge’s structure and integrity, so too do such species…
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Rewilding Species of the Month: Wild Ponies
The tale of horses and ponies in the UK to some extent embodies humanity’s relationship with the rest of the natural world. At times it is a relationship of deep love and respect. At others it is a tale of dominance, born of an idea that the rest of nature has purpose only in terms…
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We Won the Ghost Woods campaign!
We have some incredibly exciting news to share… 🎉WE WON THE GHOST WOODS CAMPAIGN! 🎉 Defra have been keeping it on the down low, but we’re so happy to confirm that they have now committed to yearly funding for restoring our precious ancient woodlands. In an email to Rebecca Smith MP, nature minister Mary Creagh…
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The Synod Nature Debate: Reflections and Implications
Well: it’s been a week since the Reverend Canon Val Plumb put forward her Private Members’ Motion, calling on the Church of England to make a measurable commitment towards the UK’s 30by30 goal. This goal comes about because the UK is one of over 190 countries which have signed up to the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity…
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The Church’s missed opportunity to lead on nature
The General Synod motion calling for the Commissioners to commit to 30by30 was blocked by a watered down amendment. Still, the fight for nature continues and the Church must step up to the challenge.
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Landmark legal opinion supports the Church Commissioners to go further for creation care
A landmark legal opinion has confirmed that the Church Commissioners for England need not feel inhibited from going further in their care for creation. The opinion confirms that they face no legal barrier to adopting “30by30” nature restoration targets – indeed, there are sound moral and theological imperatives for them to do so.
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