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.

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….

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

Rewilding, taking the traditional view, conjures up certain images. A caramel flash of a Lynx to a backdrop of Scots Pine. Herds of Tauros, rumbling across Portugal. Maybe even elephants, reintroduced into Europe, as some suggest is needed.

I’​ve come to realise, friends, that even some of the most influential speakers and writers of words on climate do not understand even the basics of Earth as an entire dynamic system of systems.

On a rainy Sunday afternoon at the end of February, 200 people packed into Ashburton Arts Centre to come together and discuss what they could do for nature on Dartmoor.

Snares are now banned in Wales, and Scotland is considering it too, though as yet there are no signs of consideration in England. But what are the actual effects on wildlife? And is there a place for snares in a rewilded world?

Grouse moors are not land for food production, purely for sport, and 1.4% of the entire land of Britain is given over to ecologically damaging practices such as burning peat and ‘predator control’.

Deer-stalking and rewilding are more closely intertwined than many may think, with arguable positives and negatives. Deer-stalking, more than any other kind of hunting, highlights some of the key issues that rewilding faces.

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.