• Rewilding Christian Approaches to Ecological Issues

    Rewilding Christian Approaches to Ecological Issues

    By Peter Atkins

    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…

  • Chris Packham challenges the Archbishop of Canterbury to stop failing nature and rewild the church’s vast estate

    Chris Packham challenges the Archbishop of Canterbury to stop failing nature and rewild the church’s vast estate

    Chris Packham today demanded that the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Church of England “practise what they preach” and protect nature by committing to rewilding 30% of their 105,000 acre estate by 2030.

  • Christian Climate Action’s response to the Rewild the Church campaign

    Christian Climate Action’s response to the Rewild the Church campaign

    By Christian Climate Action

    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.

  • Radical rest

    Radical rest

    By Hazel Draper

    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.

  • WIld Service – Book review

    WIld Service – Book review

    By Elena Grice

    Once we start on this path of wild service, we find ourselves in reciprocity, receiving and giving in equal measure, coming into relationship with instead of domination and extraction of.

  • The Church Commissioners: The UK’s silent landlords

    The Church Commissioners: The UK’s silent landlords

    By Jonny Venvell

    The Church of England, often viewed as a gentle symbol of English tradition and spirituality, is also one of the largest landowners in the UK, with over 105,000 acres managed by the Church Commissioners.

  • Rewild the Church!

    Rewild the Church!

    When you think of the Church of England you imagine quaint church yards and ivy covered church walls. However, the Church is one of the UK’s biggest institutional land owners, managing the majority of their land for profit, not nature. 

  • The people’s perambulation on Dartmoor

    The people’s perambulation on Dartmoor

    By Elena Grice, Wild Card Communities and Campaigns Lead

    At the end of April, we embarked on the People’s Perambulation, following in the footsteps of twelve mediaeval knights, centuries before us. In 1240, King Henry III ordered the knights to walk the border of the Royal Forest of Dartmoor, marking its boundary to exclude and dominate the peasants of the area.

  • Restore Nature Now March!

    Restore Nature Now March!

    Rebecca Lindsay

    On the 22nd June Wild Card joined a passionate community of environmentalists, climate scientists and nature enthusiasts in central London as official supporters of the Restore Nature Now march….

  • Why is rewilding important for climate justice?

    Why is rewilding important for climate justice?

    By Annie Randall

    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

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