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Everyone has heard of the climate crisis. Increasingly, governments, individuals, corporations, communities and NGOs are addressing this issue by aiming to increase their sustainability and cut their carbon footprint (although we can’t forget about other greenhouse gases, such as methane!) However, the biodiversity crisis gets much less attention despite being just as serious. Biodiversity is a measure of the variety of life on earth, everything from birds, mammals and reptil

It was widely discussed how many people rediscovered nature in the first lockdown and experienced the mental and physical health benefits that spending time in the environment brings. Observations (and later jokes) about how ‘nature was healing’ flooded the internet, but the pandemic hasn’t been the break from human intervention that many people thought it would be. Instead, a crash in revenues from ecotourism has meant that in many regions in the world, conservation initiati

It shouldn’t have taken a pandemic to realise this, but we really need nature. I have always sought solace with nature as an escape from essays and news. But now, more than ever, I have found watching nature has been a welcome distraction from the constant pandemic updates and the stresses and confines of lockdown. But I know that I am very fortunate to have a decent mature garden. I have been able to watch birds fledge their nests, butterflies and bees appear at the flowers