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  • Dartmoor’s Future: Did the Duchy Listen to the March for a Wild Dartmoor?

    Dartmoor’s Future: Did the Duchy Listen to the March for a Wild Dartmoor?

    In 2023, our guest author, Tony Whitehead, joined with Wild Card and hundreds of others to march for a Wild Dartmoor. Following the publication of the Duchy of Cornwall’s new vision for Dartmoor, he explores to what extent this vision meets our demands.

  • The Theological Case for Rewilding

    The Theological Case for Rewilding

    By Dr. Rev. Clara Rushbrook

    So where does re-wilding fit into the Bible and to our faith. I would say that this is the thread that runs all the way through from Genesis and on into the New Testament and beyond.

  • Summary of the Rewild the Church Webinar

    Summary of the Rewild the Church Webinar

    The Rewild the Church webinar was very well-attended, with about 350 people joining us to see how we can drive forward this campaign into tangible outcomes.

  • Wild Card Visits Langholm

    Wild Card Visits Langholm

    The weekend after our action at St Paul’s Cathedral, most of the Wild Card team headed up to Langholm for a weekend to be together in person, without managing a large crowd and photographers, to dream into the future, and to gain inspiration from visiting the Tarras Valley Nature Reserve.

  • Rewild the Church Action!

    Rewild the Church Action!

    By Elena Grice

    We were blessed with the weather. Planning an action for October in London, and especially by the Thames was a potential disaster, but the sun was shining and the breeze light for our Rewild the Church action.

  • The Archbishop’s Response to Wild Card

    The Archbishop’s Response to Wild Card

    By Wild Card

    On the very day we marched to St Paul’s Cathedral, Archbishop Justin Welby issued this statement. We at Wild Card applaud the Archbishop’s clear and positive response to our campaign calling for 30% of Church land to be rewilded by 2030. We’re delighted that he “welcomes the initiative” and shares our concerns around biodiversity decline.…

  • Rewilding Christian Approaches to Ecological Issues

    Rewilding Christian Approaches to Ecological Issues

    By Peter Atkins

    The Christian tradition has often taken one particular biblical text as its guide for tackling ecological issues: Genesis 1:28. This passage’s divine instruction states that humans should “fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that…

  • Christian Climate Action’s response to the Rewild the Church campaign

    Christian Climate Action’s response to the Rewild the Church campaign

    By Christian Climate Action

    The creation accounts in the book of Genesis contain profound teachings about how human life is grounded in three fundamental and closely intertwined relationships: with God, and with our neighbour,  and also with the earth itself.

  • WIld Service – Book review

    WIld Service – Book review

    By Elena Grice

    Once we start on this path of wild service, we find ourselves in reciprocity, receiving and giving in equal measure, coming into relationship with instead of domination and extraction of.

  • The Church Commissioners: The UK’s silent landlords

    The Church Commissioners: The UK’s silent landlords

    By Jonny Venvell

    The Church of England, often viewed as a gentle symbol of English tradition and spirituality, is also one of the largest landowners in the UK, with over 105,000 acres managed by the Church Commissioners.

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