Category: Blog posts

The Wild Cardigan Moor Barton Meet Up

13 June 2025

A couple of times a year, to ensure that we are more to one another than disembodied heads behind a zoom screen, the Wild Cardigans physically zoom in from across the UK for a real life meet up. Whilst this provides opportunity for us to get into substantial discussions and to plan ahead for the…
World Environment Day Vigil and Prayers

6 June 2025

On the eve of World Environment Day 2025, members of Christian Climate Action gathered outside Church House to pray and reflect on our shared calling to serve and protect the Earth, and to deliver a letter asking the Church Commissioners to commit to rewilding 30% of the land in their care by 2030. This is…
Rewilding Species of the Month: The Otter

2 June 2025

The otter has quite rightly earned its place in the rewilding species of the month spotlight. In both literature and folklore, otters are often presented as helpful souls: coming to the rescue and giving support in a character’s hour of need. Now, as the planet warms, we are finding that they are living up to…
Ancient Woodland Restoration Film

28 May 2025

Last week saw the premier of a new film (embedded above) from our friends at Woods for the Trees. The film, entitled ‘Ancient Woodland Restoration: The Story of Light and Life’, is incredibly relevant to our latest campaign to restore the Ghost Woods – ancient woodland which haunts Forestry England’s plantation forests. The film premiered…
Hope for the Ghost Woods

21 May 2025

Our hope for the ghost woods lies in their restoration. In these dark plantation forests, the spirit of the ancient woods still remains, desperate to make a comeback and reawaken the flowers, trees and fungi which can best sustain our native wildlife. You can read more about how they came into being in our blog…
Which Woodland: A Clear Choice for Biodiversity

15 May 2025

There’s no denying that England needs timber, and therefore timber plantations. But how do these plantations stack up for biodiversity when compared to ancient woodlands?
The Way the Woods Were Lost

8 May 2025

Across England, thousands of acres of silent plantations are haunted by ghosts. Once quintessentially English woodland, alive with butterflies and bluebells, wood anemones and wild garlic, these woodlands have become ghost woods, suffocating beneath the dark, evergreen canopy of conifer tree farms.
Rewilding Species of the Month: Bluebells

2 May 2025

One of the best things to do at this time of year is to head down paths that run alongside fields of bluebells and take in their beautiful scent. For those of us lucky enough to be on the nicer side of social media, springtime just wouldn’t be the same without images of violet-blue carpeted…
The Church Commissioners and Tenant Farmers

29 April 2025

How can large landowners like the Church Commissioners rewild their tenanted land? We’re asking the Church Commissioners to commit to rewilding 30% of their land by 2030 but we are also aware that much of this land is leased out to tenant farmers. With a just transition forming part of Wild Card’s values statement, we…
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…