Author: Hazel Draper

  • Why Visiting Ancient Woods is Good for Your Child and the Planet.

    Why Visiting Ancient Woods is Good for Your Child and the Planet.

    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

    Radical rest

    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.

  • Why is rewilding important for climate justice?

    Why is rewilding important for climate justice?

    With the interconnected impacts of climate change and biodiversity loss being felt most acutely by the poorest communities, nature-based solutions should be championed as ways to benefit both nature and humans

  • 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.