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The announcement of Labour’s first budget has serious implications for every area of society; from schools to defence, farming to train tickets. Prior to the release of the budget there were widespread fears that there would be cuts of £100 million to DEFRA’s nature-friendly farming budget, primarily focused on the Environmental Landscape Management Scheme (ELMs).…

We have the well-known accounts of creation in Genesis 1 and 2, andagain in Proverbs 8 and in the book of Job, marvelling at the wonder andgoodness of creation. We have psalms that speak of the earth declaring the glory of God, ofthe trees and the fields clapping their hands. Of God’s care and concernfor…

The webinar was very well-attended, with about 350 people joining us to see how we can drive forward this campaign into tangible outcomes. Building off an amazing legacy from the Church that has already fully divested and set a net zero target, as well as the 100 acre nature restoration project started by the Church…

What are you asking for? We are asking the Church Commissioners, the wealthy investment arm of the Church of England, to commit to rewild 30% of their land by 2030 – the target set by the UN. In the age of the climate and nature crisis, land is our single most important environmental resource. Land…

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.

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. The gathering together is my favourite part of an action, as the energy rises, and people arrive, bringing children, dogs, music and colour with…

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.…

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…

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.

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.