Forget not the birds and the beasts
Forget Me Not: Finding the forgotten species of climate change Britain
Sophie Pavelle (Bloomsbury, £16.99)
CLIMATE change and its effect on Nature has become a catalyst for passionate young people to travel the country (in an eco-friendly way, of course) to highlight the plight of their chosen species. It is a good and honourable thing to do, but this formula may be reaching saturation point.
That said, Sophie Pavelle is honest when she admits: ‘I am not a naturalist. And I can’t tell you I have a deeply profound connection to nature; I just like it, and
I enjoy learning and working alongside people who know a lot more about it than I do.’ However, unlike her (‘Red tape and paperwork intended to save Nature are, in fact, pushing us away from it and away from each other. Doesn’t it sound exhausting? I don’t know about
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