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On Friday 20th September, students from around the World will be shunning their classrooms, textbooks and smart boards and taking to the streets to demand action on the climate emergency.

Well, it’s official. According to the latest report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), how we use our land is one of the most significant contributors to global warming –…

What does a new Government mean for our environment's uncertain future?

Badger. Strong defiant, paternal, the only animal that the weasels and stoats won’t dare to cross. It is badger who the other animals turn to when things go wrong, the reluctant leader who steps…

It’s a crisp, early spring morning of watery sun and rippling bird song. The April greens are at their sharpest, the leaves of every plant impossibly lush. The flowers pushing themselves up among…

It’s always intrigued me that Kenneth Grahame chose Toad as his most impulsive, charismatic and rumbustious character. An adrenaline junky, desperate to be loved and the antithesis of Ratty’s…

Ratty. Sensible, dependable, loyal, comfortable in his own skin, writes Harry Barton, Devon Wildlife Trust's CEO. He is the character who gives the river in Wind in the Willows its sense of…

Yesterday, The Wildlife Trusts launched Wilder Future, our most ambitious campaign ever. Our reasoning? Because wildlife is declining fast and because the UK is now officially one of the most…

With the peculiar weather we've been experiencing this spring, Harry Barton reflects on the effects of climate change on wildlife. How will it cope? And how could a strong Environment Act…

As stories break about the increasing challenges that the environment is facing, Harry Barton reflects on what the future of the environment might look like, its impact on us, and what needs to be…