IT’S BEEN A SURREAL and difficult twelve months. Aside from everything else, the pandemic has demonstrated how quickly normal life can be turned upside down. This kind of crisis could just as easily be caused by climate change as by a health emergency, and the need to protect our planet’s environment, and with it our own human lives, feels more vital than ever. As life gradually heads back to something more like normality, we will, of course, want to get out and about again, and maybe make up for lost time in the process. Beautiful natural environments are particularly appealing when we’ve been stuck inside, and Britain has many to offer. We hopefully already understand that we need to tread lightly when travelling – tourism can easily destroy a beauty spot if we’re not careful. But we can go one step further than treading lightly – by visiting, and in the process supporting, places which are actively seeking to conserve the environment.
We’ve talked to some of our best sustainable attractions about the
