The National Trust, for whom I work, took the brave decision to allow the sea to re-claim farmland which was annexed by a sea wall in the 1600’s. In a very short space of time a complex ecosystem has emerged with a range of small mudflat creatures attracting otters, breeding lapwing and, hopefully in time, breeding osprey.
Sometimes it’s good to let nature just do it’s thing…
My son Sam doing great undergraduate film work in Barcelona. This is a short film telling a poignant story about an important part of Barcelona history
They don’t realise it but this lot are fundamental to maintaining the best limestone heath in Wales. For payment they get quite a nice view…..
….I, like so many other people, need places like this to go to, or to at least know that they are there.
In places like this there is a better than even chance that a person can be free of the madness, lunancy and stupidity that seems so prevalent in the world’s socieites. I’m not just talking about extreme events where lunatics gun people down because of their insane superstitions. I’m also talking about the mundane, day to day. Just listen to the idiotic utterances from the Republican Party candidates in the USA. Their, often repulsive, views are representative of millions in a so called civilised society.
The conservation of wild places is not an indulgent luxury. There are still nowhere near enough people who understand their true value and we can’t take the chance of trusting their future to the self serving, blind market.
Conservation is the opposite of elitism, and we’ll only have been successful in our efforts to conserve nature when there is no longer a need to do it. “The idea of conserving nature needs no defence, only more defenders” – Edward Abbey
I had the bright idea of leaving the trail and going cross country where I was sure I’d find the other trail. I did….eventually. This was my view near adventures end.
Mike Howe 