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London should copy Mumbai: how rewilding can make us love our city again

1 week ago | standard.co.uk | Ben Goldsmith

CommentPABen Goldsmith2 minutes ago COMMENTSGet our award-winning daily news email featuring exclusive stories, opinion and expert analysisI would like to be emailed about offers, event and updates from Evening Standard. Read our privacy notice. London is embarking on a rewilding journey. The lower reaches of the Thames are, for the first time in centuries, a place to spot seals in abundance, clouds of seabirds, teeming fish, dolphins and even whales.
The state of nature in Britain should cause farming at least a moment's reflection

2 weeks ago | bengoldsmith.substack.com | Ben Goldsmith

Now is a difficult time to be a farmer. The market for food in Britain is structurally unfair. Public demand for ultra cheap food and the concentrated buying power of a handful of giant retailers have forced farm-gate prices down and down in a spiral that has wrecked farming profitability. Meanwhile a flood of imported foods produced to far lower standards than those imposed on our own farmers makes the situation even harder.
Is Labour really waging war on nature?

1 month ago | bengoldsmith.substack.com | Ben Goldsmith

During the last Conservative government, it was common to hear the refrain that the prime minister of the day was waging a 'war on nature'. As someone who played a role in advising a string of environment ministers, I always thought that to be somewhat hyperbolic.
Labour has launched a galling attack on nature

1 month ago | spectator.com.au | Ben Goldsmith

During the last Conservative government, it was common to hear the refrain that the prime minister of the day was waging a ‘war on nature’. As someone who played a role in advising a string of environment ministers, I always thought that to be somewhat hyperbolic.
Labour has launched a galling attack on nature

1 month ago | spectator.co.uk | Ben Goldsmith

During the last Conservative government, it was common to hear the refrain that the prime minister of the day was waging a ‘war on nature’. As someone who played a role in advising a string of environment ministers, I always thought that to be somewhat hyperbolic.
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Jan 28, 2025 | bengoldsmith.substack.com | Ben Goldsmith

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It would be a huge mistake for Labour to dam the beavers

Jan 15, 2025 | spectator.com.au | Ben Goldsmith

The Guardian is reporting that No. 10 is set to delay plans to release beavers into the wild, potentially because it is seen by officials as a ‘Tory legacy’. Could it be that Labour’s Steve Reed is set to join a long line of Defra ministers who, having promised finally to legalise the reintroduction of beavers into the wild, end up backpedalling under pressure from rural lobbyists who have long decided beavers have no place in the countryside?
It would be a huge mistake for Labour to dam the beavers

Jan 15, 2025 | spectator.co.uk | Ben Goldsmith

The Guardian is reporting that No. 10 is set to delay plans to release beavers into the wild, potentially because it is seen by officials as a ‘Tory legacy’. Could it be that Labour’s Steve Reed is set to join a long line of Defra ministers who, having promised finally to legalise the reintroduction of beavers into the wild, end up backpedalling under pressure from rural lobbyists who have long decided beavers have no place in the countryside?
Bring back lynx to Britain

Jan 13, 2025 | spectator.co.uk | Ben Goldsmith

The surprise appearance and subsequent safe capture this week of a seemingly tame family of Eurasian lynx in the Scottish Highlands, more than a millennium after the species was extirpated from Britain, has been by far the most bizarre British news story of the year so far. For a brief moment, one of Britain’s most iconic extinct species is now dominating the national discourse – which can only be a good thing.
Bring back lynx to Britain

Jan 13, 2025 | spectator.com.au | Ben Goldsmith

The surprise appearance and subsequent safe capture this week of a seemingly tame family of Eurasian lynx in the Scottish Highlands, more than a millennium after the species was extirpated from Britain, has been by far the most bizarre British news story of the year so far. For a brief moment, one of Britain’s most iconic extinct species is now dominating the national discourse – which can only be a good thing.