Ireland’s Big Rewilding Project First of its Kind in Western Europe

WRi member Mark Fisher is quoted in this article from the 16th October in the Earth Island Journal, a quarterly magazine of the non-profit Earth Island Institute based in Berkeley,  California. The article, written by Dublin-based journalist Lenny Antonelli, is about the designation of an Irish wilderness earlier this year in Co Mayo, on 27,000 … Read more

Why are Britain’s conservation groups so lacking in ambition?

This was the headline for a recent article from 18th October in the Guardian by George Monbiot, in his continuing analysis of the fault lines in British nature conservation that he first revealed in his book Feral published in May this year. After a brief review of the history of extinction of key species in Britain, … Read more