Author: Hazel Draper

Ban Driven Grouse Shooting

By Elena Grice

3 April 2025

Our friends over at Wild Justice have a petition to ban driven grouse shooting that is currently about 16,000 signatures off the required 100,000 to be debated in public. With moorland burning leading to carbon emissions, out-of-control wildfires, damage that leads to flooding, as well as air pollution and raptor persecution, driven grouse shooting needs…
Rewilding Species of the Month: The Nightingale

31 March 2025

They might not be much to look at, in fact anyone new to birdwatching might categorise one as an LBJ (little brown job), but the nightingale has inspired poets and lovers alike to win their place as one of the UK’s best loved birds. They are also one of the most endangered. In fact, the…
Why Visiting Ancient Woods is Good for Your Child and the Planet.

By Hazel Draper

27 February 2025

People in the UK today often need to relearn how to be connected to nature – something which should come so instinctively. This is why access to nature is so important and why it needs to start at a young age. It’s not just good for nature connectedness, it’s good for your child’s health too:…
Radical rest

By Hazel Draper

9 September 2024

To be at rest and to be acting when and where needed without exhaustive demands on productivity is to thrive. We must begin to appreciate the intrinsic value in this.