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  • 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.

  • Introducing – Rewild the Church!

    Introducing – Rewild the Church!

    When you think of the Church of England you imagine quaint church yards and ivy covered church walls. However, the Church is one of the UK’s biggest institutional land owners, managing the majority of their land for profit, not nature. 

  • The people’s perambulation on Dartmoor

    The people’s perambulation on Dartmoor

    By Elena Grice, Wild Card Communities and Campaigns Lead

    At the end of April, we embarked on the People’s Perambulation, following in the footsteps of twelve mediaeval knights, centuries before us. In 1240, King Henry III ordered the knights to walk the border of the Royal Forest of Dartmoor, marking its boundary to exclude and dominate the peasants of the area.

  • Symbiosis

    Symbiosis

    Rewilding, taking the traditional view, conjures up certain images. A caramel flash of a Lynx to a backdrop of Scots Pine. Herds of Tauros, rumbling across Portugal. Maybe even elephants, reintroduced into Europe, as some suggest is needed.

  • On climate as the dominant meme

    On climate as the dominant meme

    I’​ve come to realise, friends, that even some of the most influential speakers and writers of words on climate do not understand even the basics of Earth as an entire dynamic system of systems.

  • Restoring nature on Dartmoor: The way forward

    Restoring nature on Dartmoor: The way forward

    On a rainy Sunday afternoon at the end of February, 200 people packed into Ashburton Arts Centre to come together and discuss what they could do for nature on Dartmoor.

  • Snares and Rewilding

    Snares and Rewilding

    Snares are now banned in Wales, and Scotland is considering it too, though as yet there are no signs of consideration in England. But what are the actual effects on wildlife? And is there a place for snares in a rewilded world?

  • Grouse shooting and rewilding

    Grouse shooting and rewilding

    Grouse moors are not land for food production, purely for sport, and 1.4% of the entire land of Britain is given over to ecologically damaging practices such as burning peat and ‘predator control’.

  • Deer Stalking and Rewilding

    Deer Stalking and Rewilding

    Deer-stalking and rewilding are more closely intertwined than many may think, with arguable positives and negatives. Deer-stalking, more than any other kind of hunting, highlights some of the key issues that rewilding faces.

  • How much land do the Royals own?

    How much land do the Royals own?

    Over the past 1000 years the Royal Family has built up a vast and intricate network of land holdings, via an esoteric set of semi-feudal legal entities that have survived, and for the most part thrived, during the various political upheavals of Britain’s history as a monarchy.

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