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  • Dartmoor’s Future: Did the Duchy Listen to the March for a Wild Dartmoor?

    Dartmoor’s Future: Did the Duchy Listen to the March for a Wild Dartmoor?

    In 2023, our guest author, Tony Whitehead, joined with Wild Card and hundreds of others to march for a Wild Dartmoor. Following the publication of the Duchy of Cornwall’s new vision for Dartmoor, he explores to what extent this vision meets our demands.

  • Rewilding Species of the Month: The Eurasian Lynx

    Rewilding Species of the Month: The Eurasian Lynx

    As part of the UK’s ecological heritage, the Eurasian lynx has earned its place as our rewilding species of the month.  Although lost to us around 1,300 years ago, through habitat destruction and hunting, these tufty eared beauties managed to cling on elsewhere in Europe. Is it time we brought them back here as well?

  • How Rewilding Can Boost Farmers’ and Landowners’ Income

    How Rewilding Can Boost Farmers’ and Landowners’ Income

    Farmers – whether owner-occupiers or tenants – manage around 70% of UK land. If we are to rewild 30% of land by 2030 without compromising food security, some of this must come from farmland.

  • An Ode to Mal

    An Ode to Mal

    Amy Webb of The Lost Giants has written this ode to Mal the Lemon Slug. Lemon slugs are ancient woodland indicator species and The Lost Giants created a giant one as the mascot for our Ghost Woods campaign.

  • Rewilding Species of the Month: Seagulls

    Rewilding Species of the Month: Seagulls

    This title will annoy some readers since, strictly speaking, there is no such thing as a seagull – there are herring gulls and black-headed gulls and common gulls and a whole host of other species of gull but no such thing as a seagull (what would Jonathan Livingston say?) but the different varieties of gull are all…

  • Ghost Woods Local Actions

    Ghost Woods Local Actions

    July 6th-13th was an exciting time in the Wild Card calendar as we stepped up our Ghost Woods campaign with a whole week of local actions. Working with local groups across England, from the undulating landscapes of Oxfordshire to the Pennine hills of West Yorkshire, these events were billed as a week of citizen science, art and protest…

  • Church communities rewilding together

    Church communities rewilding together

    Across the country, church goers and church communities within the Church of England are taking action to restore the health and flourishing of biodiversity within their local areas, driven by the passion within their congregations for creation care

  • Failure to rewild could cost the Church of England

    Failure to rewild could cost the Church of England

    In this article, we explain four key risks the Church Commissioners face if they fail to meet 30×30, and what they can do to avoid them.

  • Rewilding Species of the Month: Dragonflies

    Rewilding Species of the Month: Dragonflies

    One of the highlights of our visit to the Moor Barton rewilding project was when we entered a newly created wetland area and were met with a flurry of odonata activity (dragonflies and damselflies). It was a sign that this is truly a landscape that is working for nature.

  • The Wild Cardigan Moor Barton Meet Up

    The Wild Cardigan Moor Barton Meet Up

    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…

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