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The documentary explains how the English and Welsh culture of access differs from that of close neighbours like Scotland.
What is the future for Britain’s sheep? Farmers are choosing to keep fewer animals.
Labour has promised to extend access rights enjoyed in Scotland to the rest of Britain.
The public has until 2031 to document all existing rights of way through the countryside.
What the BBC Radio 4 drama gets right (and wrong) about rural opposition to the energy transition.
Piecemeal legislation is easily unpicked, as the recent high court ruling showed.
The recent efforts of countryside access campaigners evoke the Kinder mass trespass of 90 years earlier.
A lack of policy has allowed industrial chicken farms to multiply in certain parts of the UK – with a lack of consideration of the environmental and social impacts.
A new survey serves up a tall order for UK agricultural policy outside the EU.
Public money for public goods sounds great, but the reality could look very different.
Our research suggests there is much to learn from mountain bikers on the fragile connections between humans and nature.
Thousands of tonnes of lead are dumped in the British countryside each year.
Fox hunting has been banned in the UK since 2004 – so why is it still happening?
New director-general Helen McGrady is looking to cities for a ‘radical’ future at the National Trust.
Worldwide, hedgehogs are disappearing at the same rate as tigers.














